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1 Samuel 8:19
But the people gave no attention to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,

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1 Samuel 8:20
So that we may be like the other nations, and so that our king may be our judge and go out before us to war.

Exodus 23:2
Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

Deuteronomy 12:30
After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

2 Kings 17:15
And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

Matthew 23:2
The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;

Matthew 23:3
All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.

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1 Samuel 12:12
And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.

Hosea 13:10
Where is your king, that he may be your saviour? and all your rulers, that they may take up your cause? of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers.

Hosea 13:11
I have given you a king, because I was angry, and have taken him away in my wrath.

1 Samuel 12:17
Is it not now the time of the grain cutting? My cry will go up to the Lord and he will send thunder and rain: so that you may see and be conscious of your great sin which you have done in the eyes of the Lord in desiring a king for yourselves.

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Jeremiah 44:16
As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.

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