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Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler.
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And Samuel said all these words of the Lord to the people who were desiring a king.
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And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;
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And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.
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Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.
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He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.
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He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.
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He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.
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He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.
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Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.
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But the people gave no attention to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,