Deuteronomy 17:14
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Principles Governing Kings
14 “When you come to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, (A)‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’
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1 Samuel 8:5
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5 and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now (A)make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
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1 Samuel 8:19-20
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19 Nevertheless the people (A)refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us, 20 that we also may be (B)like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”
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1 Samuel 12:17
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17 Is today not the (A)wheat harvest? (B)I will call to the Lord, and He will send thunder and (C)rain, that you may perceive and see that (D)your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking a king for yourselves.”
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Psalm 106:35
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35 (A)But they mingled with the Gentiles
And learned their works;
Ezekiel 11:12
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12 And you shall know that I am the Lord; for you have not walked in My statutes nor executed My judgments, but (A)have done according to the customs of the Gentiles which are all around you.” ’ ”
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Ezekiel 20:32
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32 (A)What you have in your mind shall never be, when you say, ‘We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in other countries, serving wood and stone.’
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Ezekiel 25:8-9
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Proclamation Against Moab
8 ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because (A)Moab and (B)Seir say, ‘Look! The house of Judah is like all the nations,’ 9 therefore, behold, I will clear the territory of Moab of cities, of the cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and (C)Kirjathaim.
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Hosea 7:8
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8 “Ephraim (A)has mixed himself among the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake unturned.
Hosea 13:10-11
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10 [a]I will be your King;
(A)Where is any other,
That he may save you in all your cities?
And your judges to whom (B)you said,
‘Give me a king and princes’?
11 (C)I gave you a king in My anger,
And took him away in My wrath.
Footnotes
- Hosea 13:10 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. Where is your king?
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