...people is insistent; they want a king "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" (20). Israel has its will. Samuel assembles the people at Mizpah, and the assembly proceeds to the...

...warning, and they said: 'No, we will have a king over us so we may be like other nations: that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.'" I Samuel 8:10-20. 20 Deuteronomy 17:16—20. " i Samuel 14:43-45. Similarly, when Saul had determined...

...they said, Nay but we will have a king over us, that we may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us and fight our battles. Samuel continued to reason with them, but to no purpose; he set before them their ingratitude, but...

...said, " We will have a king over us ; 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" (i Sam. viii. 19, 20). The garbled rendering of Israelitish history in this verse an J those following...

...the Israelites' imminent demand for a king ("that we may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles," 1 Sam. 8:20). On the contrary, it ends with the portrait of an Israel unified and ruled by the power...

...law and security. In requesting a king, Israel is opting for human political autonomy: "that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles" (I Sam. 8:20). Undeniably, there is a biblical voice that expresses a critical view of human political...

..."Nay; but we will have a king over us; 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" (I Samuel 8: 19-20). If the Hebrews, like the Mesopotamians, remembered a kingless period, they never...

...Nay, but we will have a king over us, that we also shall be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. Saul called the people together, and they chose him to be the first king of the Jews; and all the people...

...Adams: Republikanische Verfassung und bürgerliche Freiheit, S. 95. 49 So Paine: Common Sense, S. 19: „The nearer any government approaches to a republic the less business there is for a king." >0 Vgl. WP. Adams: Republikanische Verfassung und bürgerliche Freiheit, S. 98 mit Bezug auf Paine....

...said, No; but we will have a king over us; 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." As I stated earlier, Saul was picked and it was said that he was "a choice and handsome young man....