Deuteronomy 17:14 17:14 Hosea 13:10 13:10 1 Samuel 8:19 8:19 1 Samuel 8:6 8:6 Judges 3:5 3:5 1 Corinthians 15:33 15:33 1 Corinthians 5:6 5:6 Judges 2:2 2:2 Deuteronomy 4:7 4:7 Numbers 14:14 14:14 1 Kings 8:53 8:53 Exodus 34:10 34:10 Romans 15:13 15:13 Hebrews 10:36 10:36 Psalms 62:8 62:8 Romans 5:2 5:2 1 John 4:4 4:4 John 17:14 17:14 Ephesians 1:4 1:4 Ephesians 2:2 2:2 Isaiah 52:11 52:11 Revelation 18:4 18:4 2 Corinthians 7:1 7:1 Psalms 1:1 1:1 1 Samuel 8:5 Psalms 106:35 Exodus 33:16 Romans 12:12 John 15:19 2 Corinthians 6:17 1 Samuel 8:20
1 Samuel 8:20
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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This chapter in the commentary 2 Nephi 10 — Reconcile Yourselves — Jacob's Second Day and the Land of Promise Alma 2 — Amlici Rejected by the Voice of the People — the First Civil War of the Judges, the Self-Crowned King, and the Battle at the Sidon Alma 51 — The King-Men and the Javelin — Liberty Assailed from Within and the Death of the Usurper Ether 6 — Driven Forth Before the Wind — The Crossing of the Deep, and a People That Sang in the Storm Ether 7 — Brought Into Captivity — The Kingdom Divided, and the Brother of Jared's Warning Begins to Come True Ether 10 — Never Could Be a People More Blessed — The Tyrant, the Long Captivities, and a Land at Its Height Ether 11 — The Prophets Mourned and Withdrew — The Last Slide, and a People Past Hearing Helaman 1 — The Unguarded City — A Throne Contested and a Capital Nearly Lost Jacob 1 — The Plates Pass to Jacob — Magnifying the Office, the Anxiety for Souls, and the Naming of Kings Mosiah 7 — Ammon Finds the Lost Colony — The Bondage Pattern, the Slain Prophet, and the First Pre-Christian Christology Outside Benjamin Mosiah 11 — King Noah and the First Cry of Abinadi — A King Whose Heart Is Set on Riches, a Prophet Who Comes Among the People to Say Repent or Be Brought Into Bondage Mosiah 12 — Abinadi Returns in Disguise — Bound, Tried, and Questioned with Isaiah's Good Tidings Mosiah 18 — Waters of Mormon — The Baptismal Covenant, the Mourning-with-Them-that-Mourn, and the First Nephite Church Mosiah 21 — Limhi's Bondage Deepens — Three Defeats, Humbled to the Dust, the Lord Slow to Hear, and Many Desire Baptism but None Have Authority Mosiah 23 — Alma's People in Helam — The Refused Kingship, the Liberty Doctrine, the Land Beautiful, the Amulonites Discovered, and the Lord Chasteneth Those Whom He Loveth Mosiah 27 — The Angel, the Three Days of Death-Like Sleep, and the Born-Again — Alma the Younger and the Sons of Mosiah Converted, the Earth Trembling, the Soul Redeemed from the Gall of Bitterness Mosiah 29 — The Reign of the Judges Established — Mosiah's Epistle on the Voice of the People, the Danger of the Unrighteous King, How Much Iniquity One Wicked King Causes, and Alma the Younger Chosen Chief Judge 1 Kings 18 — The God That Answereth by Fire — Obadiah's Hidden Hundred, the Question on Carmel, the Drenched Altar, and the Cloud Like a Man's Hand Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. Read 1 Samuel 8:20 in context .
