But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
Parallel translations
- KJV But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
- BSB But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
- NKJV But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’
- NASB But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
- NLT But his people hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want him to be our king.’
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- 1 Sam 8:7Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.
- Acts 7:51–52“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
- Acts 3:14–15But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
- Ps 2:1–3Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
- Luke 19:27But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”
- John 1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
- John 15:18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
- John 15:23–24He who hates me, hates my Father also.
- Zech 11:8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
- Acts 4:27–28“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
- Isa 49:7Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
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