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1 Kings 8:20

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.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): et erimus nos quoque sicut omnes gentes : et judicabit nos rex noster, et egredietur ante nos, et pugnabit bella nostra pro nobis.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ ἐσόμεθα καὶ ἡμεῖς κατὰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη· καὶ δικάσει ἡμᾶς βασιλεὺς ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐξελεύσεται ἔμπροσθεν ἡμῶν, καὶ πολεμήσει τὸν πόλεμον ἡμῶν.
Hebrew (WLC): וְהָיִ֥ינוּ גַם אֲנַ֖חְנוּ כְּכָל הַגּוֹיִ֑ם וּשְׁפָטָ֤נוּ מַלְכֵּ֨נוּ֙ וְיָצָ֣א לְפָנֵ֔ינוּ וְנִלְחַ֖ם אֶת מִלְחֲמֹתֵֽנוּ

Haydock's commentary

Nations. We are neither better nor worse than the rest. What extravagance! for a people to abandon a state of happiness, and the dominion of God, and to prefer the service of a man! (Calmet)

For us. This was the pretext, as Naas threatened them with war, chap. xii. 12. (Menochius)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.