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1 Samuel 8:5

And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

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1 Samuel 8:5

And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

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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 8:5 in context.