THEOSIS1 Kingdoms (1 Samuel) 12:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Now, therefore, your king is here, whom you have chosen and desired: Behold the Lord hath given you a king.
וְעַתָּ֗ה הִנֵּ֥ה הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר בְּחַרְתֶּ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר שְׁאֶלְתֶּ֑ם וְהִנֵּ֨ה נָתַ֧ן יְהוָ֛ה עֲלֵיכֶ֖ם מֶֽלֶךְ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Sam 10:24And Samuel said to all the people: Surely you see him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people. And all the people cried and said: God save the king.
- Hos 13:11I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in my indignation.
- 1 Sam 8:5And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.
- Ps 78 (77):29
- Ps 78 (77):31
- 1 Sam 11:15And all the people went to Galgal, and there they made Saul king, before the Lord in Galgal, and they sacrificed there victims of peace before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced exceedingly.
- Acts 13:21And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.
- 1 Sam 9:20And as for the asses, which were lost three days ago, be not solicitous, because they are found. And for whom shall be all the best things of Israel? Shall they not be for thee and for all thy father's house?