Bible verse
Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”
1 Samuel 8:20 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Samuel 8.
16 And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
18 When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”
19 Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.
20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”
21 Samuel listened to all the words of the people and repeated them in the hearing of the LORD.
22 “Listen to their voice,” the LORD said to Samuel. “Appoint a king for them.” Then Samuel told the men of Israel, “Everyone must go back to his city.”
KJV
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.
ASV
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.
ERV
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.
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