1 Samuel 8
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1 Samuel 8:14-22

14And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants.

15He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants.

16And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

17He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his servants.

18And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in that day.”

19Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us,

20that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

21And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them in the hearing of the Lord.

22So the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed their voice, and make them a king.” And Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Every man go to his city.”

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