1 Samuel 8:20
Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles."
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1 Samuel 8:5
"Look, " they said, "you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations."

Exodus 33:16
For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?"

Leviticus 20:24-26
But I have said to you, "You will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples. . . .

Numbers 23:9
For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, who will not reckon themselves among the nations.

Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy unto the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be as a people for His prized possession, above all peoples on the face of the earth.

Psalm 106:35
but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

John 15:19
If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.

2 Corinthians 6:17
"Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you."

Philippians 3:20
But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
that we also may be like all the nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."

King James Bible
That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then we'll be like all the other nations: our king will judge us, go out before us, and fight our battles."

International Standard Version
We, too, will be like all the nations! Our king will govern us and go out before us to fight our battles."

NET Bible
We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us and fight our battles."
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