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.


In Context

17 Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.

18 And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves. and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.

19 But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, and they said: Nay: but there shall be a king over us.

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

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

22 And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel: Let every man go to 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 American Standard 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 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.