 | Joseph Augustus Miller - 1853 - 334 pages
...refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said. Nay; but we will have a king over us ; 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.''—1 Sam. viii. 19, 20. THESE words afford an appropriate introduction to the narrative of... | |
 | 1853 - 1116 pages
...the voice of Samuel ; and they said, Nay ; but we will have a king over us ; 20 That we also may be P like all the nations ; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. 21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD. 22... | |
 | 1853 - 1110 pages
...of. $fc. t Heb. is with us ? f Heb. there is found in my hand. P ver. 5. 20 That we also may be Plike all the nations ; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and f%ht our battles. 21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears... | |
 | James Bellangee - Society of Friends - 1854 - 342 pages
...like the Israelites of old, who rejected the Lord that lie should not reign over them. " 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." (Sam. viii. 20.) And so are we, if we desire the law of men to be our guide like all the nations in... | |
 | Charles Baker - 1855 - 234 pages
...refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, "Nay; but we will have a king over us; that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may...us, and go out before us, and fight our battles." And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord. And the... | |
 | Thornley Smith - Bible stories, English - 1855 - 350 pages
...he was mistaken; for to all this they replied, " Nay; but we will have a King over us ; that we also may be like all the nations ; and that our King may...us, and go out before us, and fight our battles." (Ver. 19, 20.) In the East the monarchical form of government has always been the most popular. There... | |
 | David Bentley - God - 1999 - 134 pages
...replace the ineffective rule of the judges. They demand, "We will have a king over us that we also be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us" (1 Sam. 8:20). David, the second in a line of forty kings in Jerusalem, reigns with "justice and equity"... | |
 | Thomas Paine - History - 2000 - 388 pages
...People refused to obey the voice of Samuel, and they said, Nay but we will have a king over us, that we may be like all the nations, and that our king may...judge us, and go out before us and fight our battles. Samuel continued to reason with them, but to no purpose; he set before them their ingratitude, but... | |
 | Elizabeth Rose Wingrove - Philosophy - 2000 - 270 pages
...worldly sovereignty. His story shows no hints of the Israelites' imminent demand for a king ("that we may be like all the nations, and that our king may...us, and go out before us, and fight our battles," 1 Sam. 8:20). On the contrary, it ends with the portrait of an Israel unified and ruled by the power... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - History - 2001 - 626 pages
...will not answer you in that day" (18). But the people is insistent; they want a king "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" (20). Israel has its will. Samuel assembles the people at Mizpah, and the assembly proceeds to the... | |
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Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel ; and they said, Nay ; but we will have a king over us ; 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. 
