1 Samuel 8
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1 Samuel 8:14-22

141He will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. 15And he will take a tenth of your seed and your vineyards and give it to his high officials and his servants. 16He will also take your male servants and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and 2use them for his work. 17He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants. 18Then 3you will cry out on that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but 4the Lord will not answer you on that day.”

19Yet the people 5refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, “No, but there shall be a king over us, 206so that we also may be like all the nations, and our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” 21Now after Samuel had heard all the words of the people, 7he 8repeated them in the Lord’s hearing. 22And the Lord said to Samuel, “9Listen to their voice and appoint a king for them.” So Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Go, every man to his city.”

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Samuel 8:14 1 Kin 21:7; Ezek 46:18 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Samuel 8:16 Lit make ↩
  3. 3. 1 Samuel 8:18 Is 8:21 ↩
  4. 4. 1 Samuel 8:18 Prov 1:25-28; Is 1:15; Mic 3:4 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Samuel 8:19 Is 66:4; Jer 44:16 ↩
  6. 6. 1 Samuel 8:20 1 Sam 8:5 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Samuel 8:21 Judg 11:11 ↩
  8. 8. 1 Samuel 8:21 Lit spoke ↩
  9. 9. 1 Samuel 8:22 1 Sam 8:7 ↩

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