Bible Cross References
If the men
1 Samuel 8:5-9
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and said to him, "Look, you are getting old and your sons don't follow your example. So then, appoint a king to rule over us, so that we will have a king, as other countries have."
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Samuel was displeased with their request for a king; so he prayed to the LORD,
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and the LORD said, "Listen to everything the people say to you. You are not the one they have rejected; I am the one they have rejected as their king.
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Ever since I brought them out of Egypt, they have turned away from me and worshiped other gods; and now they are doing to you what they have always done to me.
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So then, listen to them, but give them strict warnings and explain how their kings will treat them."
1 Samuel 12:12-19
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But when you saw that King Nahash of Ammon was about to attack you, you rejected the LORD as your king and said to me, 'We want a king to rule us.'
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"Now here is the king you chose; you asked for him, and now the LORD has given him to you.
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All will go well with you if you honor the LORD your God, serve him, listen to him, and obey his commands, and if you and your king follow him.
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But if you do not listen to the LORD but disobey his commands, he will be against you and your king.
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So then, stand where you are, and you will see the great thing which the LORD is going to do.
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It's the dry season, isn't it? But I will pray, and the LORD will send thunder and rain. When this happens, you will realize that you committed a great sin against the LORD when you asked him for a king."
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So Samuel prayed, and on that same day the LORD sent thunder and rain. Then all the people became afraid of the LORD and of Samuel,
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and they said to Samuel, "Please, sir, pray to the LORD your God for us, so that we won't die. We now realize that, besides all our other sins, we have sinned by asking for a king."
Psalm 81:12
So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.
Ezekiel 14:2-5
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Then the LORD spoke to me.
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"Mortal man," he said, "these men have given their hearts to idols and are letting idols lead them into sin. Do they think I will give them an answer?
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"Now speak to them and tell them what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to them: Each of you Israelites who have given your heart to idols and let them lead you into sin and who then come to consult a prophet, will get an answer from me---the answer that your many idols deserve!
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All those idols have turned the Israelites away from me, but by my answer I hope to win back their loyalty.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
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The Wicked One will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false miracles and wonders,
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and use every kind of wicked deceit on those who will perish. They will perish because they did not welcome and love the truth so as to be saved.
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And so God sends the power of error to work in them so that they believe what is false.
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The result is that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in sin, will be condemned.
but yet
Numbers 22:35
But the angel said, "Go on with these men, but say only what I tell you to say." So Balaam went on with them.
Numbers 23:12
He answered, "I can say only what the LORD tells me to say."
Numbers 23:26
Balaam answered, "Didn't I tell you that I had to do everything that the LORD told me?"
Numbers 24:13
even if you gave me all the silver and gold in your palace, I could not disobey the command of the LORD by doing anything of myself. I will say only what the LORD tells me to say."
Psalm 33:10
The LORD frustrates the purposes of the nations; he keeps them from carrying out their plans.
Psalm 33:11
But his plans endure forever; his purposes last eternally.
Psalm 78:30
But they had not yet satisfied their craving and were still eating,
Psalm 78:31
when God became angry with them and killed their strongest men, the best young men of Israel.
Isaiah 37:29
I have received the report of that rage and that pride of yours, and now I will put a hook through your nose and a bit in your mouth and will take you back by the same road you came."
Hosea 13:11
In my anger I have given you kings, and in my fury I have taken them away.