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."


In Context

17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.

18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the Lord will not answer you in that day."

19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. "No!" they said. "We want a king over us.

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

21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the Lord .

22 The Lord answered, "Listen to them and give them a king." Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Everyone go back to his town."

1st Samuel 8:20 in Other Translations

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 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.