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And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they should say: Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.
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And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.
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According to all their works, they have done from the day that I brought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and served strange gods, so do they also unto thee.
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Now, therefore, hearken to their voice: but yet testify to them, and foretell them the right of the king, that shall reign over them.
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Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that had desired a king of him,
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And said: This will be the right of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and will make them his horsemen, and his running footmen, to run before his chariots,
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And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and his centurions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make him arms and chariots.
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Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.
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And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best oliveyards, and give them to his servants.
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Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants.
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Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work.