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1 Samuel 8:17-21

1 Samuel 8:17

He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants.

1 Samuel 8:18

Then you will cry out on that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you on that day.”

1 Samuel 8:19

Yet the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, “No, but there shall be a king over us,

1 Samuel 8:20

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

1 Samuel 8:21

Now after Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the Lord’s hearing.