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1 Samuel 8
1 Samuel 8:4
1 Samuel 8
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1 Samuel 8:4
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Then all the ancients of Israel being assembled came to Samuel to Ramatha.
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Now the name of his firstborn son was Joel: and the name of the second was Abia, judges in Bersabee.
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And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
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Then all the ancients of Israel being assembled came to Samuel to Ramatha.
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And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.
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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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