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1 Samuel 8:5-7
English Standard Version
1 Samuel 8:5-7
English Standard Version
5 and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. (A)Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, (B)for they have not rejected you, (C)but they have rejected me from being king over them.
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