Deuteronomy 17:14
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The King
14 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession(A) of it and settled in it,(B) and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”(C)
1 Samuel 8:5
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5 They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king(A) to lead[a](B) us, such as all the other nations(C) have.”
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 8:5 Traditionally judge; also in verses 6 and 20
1 Samuel 8:19-20
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19 But the people refused(A) to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want(B) a king(C) over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations,(D) with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.”
Psalm 106:35
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35 but they mingled(A) with the nations
and adopted their customs.
Ezekiel 11:12
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12 And you will know that I am the Lord,(A) for you have not followed my decrees(B) or kept my laws but have conformed to the standards of the nations around you.(C)”
Ezekiel 20:32
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32 “‘You say, “We want to be like the nations, like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone.” But what you have in mind will never happen.
Ezekiel 25:8-9
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A Prophecy Against Moab
8 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because Moab(A) and Seir(B) said, “Look, Judah has become like all the other nations,” 9 therefore I will expose the flank of Moab, beginning at its frontier towns—Beth Jeshimoth(C), Baal Meon(D) and Kiriathaim(E)—the glory of that land.
Hosea 7:8
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8 “Ephraim mixes(A) with the nations;
Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.
Hosea 13:10-11
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