Judges 8:23

WEB

²³Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. The LORD shall rule over you.”

KJV

²³And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.

BSB

²³But Gideon replied, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son. The LORD shall rule over you.”

FBV

²³“I won't be your ruler, and my son won't either,” Gideon replied. “The Lord will be your ruler.”

Extra References

Isaiah 33:22

²²For the LORD is our judge. The LORD is our lawgiver. The LORD is our king. He will save us.

1 Samuel 12:12

¹²“When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the LORD your God was your king.

¹⁹But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us!’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands.”

2 Corinthians 1:24

²⁴We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

1 Samuel 8:6-7

⁶But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to the LORD.

⁷The LORD 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.

Judges 11:9-11

⁹Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivers them before me, will I be your head?”

¹⁰The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.”

¹¹Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.

1 Peter 5:3

³not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

Judges 2:18

¹⁸When the LORD raised up judges for them, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved the LORD because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.

Judges 10:18

¹⁸The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

Luke 22:24-27

²⁴A dispute also arose among them, which of them was considered to be greatest. ²⁵He said to them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’ ²⁶But not so with you. Rather, the one who is greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves. ²⁷For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.