1 Samuel 8:5 BSB — MannaFest

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16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ	vai.yo.me.Ru	and they said	H559 →
אֵלָ֗יו	'e.Lav	to him	H413 →
הִנֵּה֙	hi.Neh	here!	H2009 →
אַתָּ֣ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
זָקַ֔נְתָּ	za.Kan.ta	you have become old	H2204 →
וּבָנֶ֕יךָ	u.va.Nei.kha	and sons your	H1121 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
הָלְכ֖וּ	ha.le.Khu	they have walked	H1980 →
בִּדְרָכֶ֑יךָ	bid.ra.Khei.kha	in ways your	H1870 →
עַתָּ֗ה	'a.Tah	now	H6258 →
שִֽׂימָה־	si.mah-	appoint !	H7760 →
לָּ֥נוּ	La.nu	for <the> us
מֶ֛לֶךְ	Me.lekh	a king	H4428 →
לְשָׁפְטֵ֖נוּ	le.sha.fe.Te.nu	to judge us	H8199 →
כְּכָל־	ke.khol-	like all	H3605 →
הַגּוֹיִֽם׃	ha.go.Yim	the nations	H1471 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Through
Numbers 23:9
For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 33:28
  So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.
- Deuteronomy 32:8
  When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
- Exodus 33:16
  For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people…
- Esther 3:8
  Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey…
- Ezra 9:2
  Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and…

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Deuteronomy 17:14–15When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”1 Samuel 9:20As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, do not worry about them, for they have been found. And upon whom is all the desire of Israel, if not upon you and all your father’s house?”1 Samuel 12:2Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.1 Samuel 8:20Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”1 Samuel 8:19–20Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.1 Samuel 12:13Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you requested. Behold, the LORD has placed a king over you.Hosea 13:10–11Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?1 Samuel 8:6–8But when they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” their demand was displeasing in the sight of Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD.Numbers 23:9For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.1 Samuel 12:17Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.”Ezekiel 20:32When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never come to pass.Judges 8:22Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you and your son and grandson—for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”Acts 13:21Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin.

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