THEOSIS1 Kingdoms (1 Samuel) 8:20Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.
וְהָיִ֥ינוּ גַם־אֲנַ֖חְנוּ כְּכָל־הַגּוֹיִ֑ם וּשְׁפָטָ֤נוּ מַלְכֵּ֙נוּ֙ וְיָצָ֣א לְפָנֵ֔ינוּ וְנִלְחַ֖ם אֶת־מִלְחֲמֹתֵֽנוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 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.
- 2 Cor 6:17Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:
- Deut 7:6Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.
- Ex 33:16For how shall we be able to know, I and thy people, that we have found grace in thy sight, unless thou walk with us, that we may be glorified by all people that dwell upon the earth?
- Ps 106 (105):35
- John 15:19If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
- Lev 20:24But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people.
- Lev 20:26You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy: and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.