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and they said to him, "Behold, you have grownold, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Nowappoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations."
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The LORDsaid to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from beingkingover them.
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"Like all the deedswhich they have donesince the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to thisday -in that they have forsaken Me and servedothergods-so they are doing to you also.
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He said, "This will be the procedure of the kingwho will reignover you: he will take your sons and place them for himself in his chariots and among his horsemen and they will runbefore his chariots.
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"He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and of fifties, and some to do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.