Bible Cross References
If the men
1 Samuel 8:5-9
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and said to him, "Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations."
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But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." So Samuel prayed to the LORD.
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And the LORD said to Samuel, "Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.
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"According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day -- with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods -- so they are doing to you also.
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"Now therefore, heed their voice. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and show them the behavior of the king who will reign over them."
1 Samuel 12:12-19
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"And when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us,' when the LORD your God [was] your king.
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"Now therefore, here is the king whom you have chosen [and] whom you have desired. And take note, the LORD has set a king over you.
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"If you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and do not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then both you and the king who reigns over you will continue following the LORD your God.
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"However, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you, as [it was] against your fathers.
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" Now therefore, stand and see this great thing which the LORD will do before your eyes:
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"[Is] today not the wheat harvest? I will call to the LORD, and He will send thunder and rain, that you may perceive and see that your wickedness [is] great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking a king for yourselves."
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So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
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And all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins the evil of asking a king for ourselves."
Psalm 81:12
So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, To walk in their own counsels.
Ezekiel 14:2-5
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And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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"Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put before them that which causes them to stumble into iniquity. Should I let Myself be inquired of at all by them?
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"Therefore speak to them, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Everyone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him who comes, according to the multitude of his idols,
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"that I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from Me by their idols." '
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
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The coming of the [lawless one] is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
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and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
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And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
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that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
but yet
Numbers 22:35
Then the Angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but only the word that I speak to you, that you shall speak." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Numbers 23:12
So he answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak what the LORD has put in my mouth?"
Numbers 23:26
So Balaam answered and said to Balak, "Did I not tell you, saying, 'All that the LORD speaks, that I must do'?"
Numbers 24:13
'If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the LORD, to do good or bad of my own will. What the LORD says, that I must speak'?
Psalm 33:10
The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.
Psalm 33:11
The counsel of the LORD stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations.
Psalm 78:30
They were not deprived of their craving; But while their food [was] still in their mouths,
Psalm 78:31
The wrath of God came against them, And slew the stoutest of them, And struck down the choice [men] of Israel.
Isaiah 37:29
Because your rage against Me and your tumult Have come up to My ears, Therefore I will put My hook in your nose And My bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back By the way which you came." '
Hosea 13:11
I gave you a king in My anger, And took [him] away in My wrath.