Scripture · Old Testament
1 Samuel 8:18
1 Samuel 8:18 is verse 18 of 1 Samuel chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”
King James Version
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
World English Bible
You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
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1 Samuel 8:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
18 When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”
19 Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.
20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Isaiah 8:21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
Job 27:9Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?
Psalms 18:41They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.
Proverbs 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
Proverbs 1:26in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,
Proverbs 1:27when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
Proverbs 1:28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
Proverbs 21:13Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.
Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
Micah 3:4Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
Luke 13:25After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’