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Shemu'el told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked of him a king.
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He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;
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and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
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He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
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He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
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He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
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He will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
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He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
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You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not answer you in that day.
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But the people refused to listen to the voice of Shemu'el; and they said, No: but we will have a king over us,
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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.