Numbers 23:9
9For from the top of the crags aI see him,from the hills I behold him;
behold, ba people dwelling alone,
and cnot counting itself among the nations!
Deuteronomy 17:14-15
Laws Concerning Israel’s Kings
14“When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, d‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ 15you may indeed set a king over you ewhom the Lord your God will choose. One ffrom among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.1 Samuel 8:6-8
6But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord. 7And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, gfor they have not rejected you, hbut they have rejected me from being king over them. 8According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.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 12:17
17 jIs it not wheat harvest today? kI will call upon the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that lyour wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king.”Hosea 13:10-11
10 mWhere now is your king, to save you in all your cities?Where are all your rulers—
those of whom nyou said,
“Give me a king and princes”?
11 oI gave you a king in my anger,
and pI took him away in my wrath.
Acts 13:21
21Then qthey asked for a king, and God gave them Saul rthe son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
Copyright information for
ESV