1 Samuel 12:12

But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king to rule over us’—even though the LORD your God was your king.

Cross References (14)

  • Judges 8:23 (6)

    But Gideon replied, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son. The LORD shall rule over you.”

  • 1 Samuel 8:5–7 (4)

    “Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the oth

  • Genesis 17:7 (3)

    I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your Go

  • 1 Samuel 11:1–2 (3)

    Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with

  • 1 Samuel 10:19 (3)

    But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘N

  • 1 Samuel 8:19–20 (2)

    Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.

  • Exodus 19:5–6 (2)

    Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—fo

  • 1 Samuel 8:3 (2)

    But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

  • Judges 9:18 (2)

    but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have mad

  • Isaiah 33:22 (2)

    For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.

  • Hosea 13:10 (2)

    Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

  • Psalms 74:12 (2)

    Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.

  • Numbers 23:21 (2)

    He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the

  • Judges 9:56–57 (2)

    In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.