Devine Scripture

1 Samuel 8:1

1 Samuel chapter 8 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

Context

v.1This passage

v.2Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 16:18

    Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

  • Nehemiah 7:2

    that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

  • Judges 12:14

    And he had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

  • 1 Timothy 5:21

    I charge thee in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

  • 2 Chronicles 19:5

    And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

  • Judges 10:4

    And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.