20that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.


In Context

17 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants.

18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.

19 But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay: but we will have a king over us,

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.

21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Jehovah.

22 And Jehovah said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.

1 Samuel 8:20 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:20Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:20That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:20that we also may be like all the nations; and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and conduct our wars.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:20that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:20That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:20that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:20and we have been, even we, like all the nations; and our king hath judged us, and gone out before us, and fought our battles.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:20That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.