nSee ch. 7:10-13
Judges 2:16-18
The Lord Raises Up Judges
16 aThen the Lord raised up judges, bwho saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17Yet they did not listen to their judges, for cthey whored after other gods and bowed down to them. dThey soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so. 18Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, ethe Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. fFor the Lord was moved to pity by gtheir groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.1 Samuel 8:5-6
5and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. hNow appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” 6But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord.1 Samuel 8:19-20
The Lord Grants Israel’s Request
19But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us, 20 ithat we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”1 Samuel 12:11-12
11And the Lord sent jJerubbaal kand Barak ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Bedan
mand Jephthah and nSamuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety. 12And when you saw that oNahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, pyou said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ qwhen the Lord your God was your king. 1 Kings 12:20
20And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but rthe tribe of Judah only.Hosea 8:4
4 sThey made kings, tbut not through me.They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
for their own destruction.
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