1 Samuel 8:4
2 The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second was Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.
3 But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.
So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.
5 “Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
6 But 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.
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Sammenlign
- ÅB
- Da samlet alle Israels eldste seg og kom til Samuel i Rama.
- OTB
- Da samlet alle de eldste i Israel seg og kom til Samuel i Rama.
- B1930
- Da samlet alle Israels eldste sig og kom til Samuel i Rama.
- BSB
- So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.
- KJV
- Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
- WEB
- Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.
- ASV
- Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah;
- DARBY
- Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah,
- BLB
- And all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah,
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2 Samuel 5:3
So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel.
Les i sammenheng1 Samuel 7:17
Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.
Les i sammenhengExodus 24:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.
Les i sammenhengExodus 3:16
Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
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