1 Samuel 8:20
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And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.

1 Samuel 8:5 And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.

Exodus 33:16 For how shall we be able to know, I and thy people, that we have found grace in thy sight, unless thou walk with us, that we may be glorified by all people that dwell upon the earth?

Leviticus 20:24-26 But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people. . . .

Numbers 23:9 I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

Deuteronomy 7:6 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.

Psalm 106:35 And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works:

John 15:19 If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.

2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

Philippians 3:20 But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Context
God Grants the Request
19But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, and they said, Nay: but there shall be a king over us, 20And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.21And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 8:5
And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.

1 Samuel 12:2
And now the king goeth before you: but I am old and greyheaded: and my sons are with you: having then conversed with you from my youth until this day, behold here I am.

Lexicon
Then we will
אֲנַ֖חְנוּ (’ă·naḥ·nū)
Pronoun - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 587: We

be
וְהָיִ֥ינוּ (wə·hā·yî·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

like all
כְּכָל־ (kə·ḵāl-)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the other nations,
הַגּוֹיִ֑ם (hag·gō·w·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

with a king
מַלְכֵּ֙נוּ֙ (mal·kê·nū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 4428: A king

to judge us,
וּשְׁפָטָ֤נוּ (ū·šə·p̄ā·ṭā·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate

to go out
וְיָצָ֣א (wə·yā·ṣā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

before us,
לְפָנֵ֔ינוּ (lə·p̄ā·nê·nū)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

and to fight
וְנִלְחַ֖ם (wə·nil·ḥam)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3898: To feed on, to consume, to battle

our battles.”
מִלְחֲמֹתֵֽנוּ׃ (mil·ḥă·mō·ṯê·nū)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 4421: A battle, war


Additional Translations
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.”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.

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.

An we also will be like all the nations; and our king shall judge us, and shall go out before us, and fight our battles.

that we also may be like all the nations; and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and conduct our wars.

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.

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.

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."

and we have been, even we, like all the nations; and our king hath judged us, and gone out before us, and fought our battles.'
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