1 Samuel 8:5
They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
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1 Samuel 8:5
They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
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1 Samuel 8:1
When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
1 Samuel 8:2
Now the name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.
1 Samuel 8:3
His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
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1 Samuel 8:7
Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.
1 Samuel 8:8
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me and served other gods, so they also do to you.
1 Samuel 8:19
But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us,
1 Samuel 8:20
that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”
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