1Samuel then said vnto all Israel, Behold, I haue hearkened vnto your voyce in all that yee sayde vnto mee, and haue appoynted a King ouer you.

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1 Samuel 10:24, 1 Samuel 10:24, 1 Samuel 11:14, 1 Samuel 11:15, 1 Samuel 11:14

2Now therefore behold, your King walketh before you, and I am old and graie headed, and beholde, my sonnes are with you: and I haue walked before you from my childehood vnto this day.

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1 Samuel 8:5, 1 Samuel 8:5, 1 Samuel 8:1, 1 Samuel 8:20, 1 Samuel 8:1

3Beholde, here I am: beare recorde of me before the Lord and before his Anointed. Whose oxe haue I taken? or whose asse haue I taken? or whome haue I done wrong to? or whome haue I hurt? or of whose hande haue I receiued any bribe, to blinde mine eyes therewith, and I will restore it you?

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Acts 20:33, Acts 20:33, Numbers 16:15, Numbers 16:15, 1 Samuel 24:6

4Then they sayde, Thou hast done vs no wrong, nor hast hurt vs, neither hast thou taken ought of any mans hand.

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Daniel 6:4, Psalms 37:5, Psalms 37:6, 3 John 1:12, Daniel 6:4

5And he saide vnto them, The Lord is witnesse against you, and his Anointed is witnesse this day, that yee haue founde nought in mine handes. And they answered, He is witnesse.

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Exodus 22:4, Exodus 22:4, Acts 23:9, Acts 24:20, Acts 23:9

6Then Samuel sayde vnto the people, It is the Lord that made Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt.

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Micah 6:4, Micah 6:4, Exodus 6:26, Exodus 6:26, Psalms 99:6

7Nowe therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord according to all the righteousnesse of the Lord, which he shewed to you and to your fathers.

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Isaiah 1:18, Isaiah 1:18, Judges 5:11, Ezekiel 18:25, Ezekiel 18:30

8After that Iaakob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried vnto the Lord, then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron which brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

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Exodus 4:14, Exodus 4:16, Exodus 4:14, Exodus 4:16, Exodus 2:23

9And when they forgate the Lord their God, he solde them into the hand of Sisera captaine of the hoste of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistims, and into the hande of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

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Judges 10:7, Judges 3:12, Judges 4:2, Judges 13:1, Judges 10:7

10And they cried vnto the Lord, and saide, We haue sinned, because we haue forsaken the Lord, and haue serued Baalim and Ashtaroth. Nowe therefore deliuer vs out of the handes of our enemies, and we will serue thee.

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Judges 10:10, Judges 2:13, Judges 10:10, Judges 2:13, Judges 10:15

11Therefore the Lord sent Ierubbaal and Bedan and Iphtaph, and Samuel, and deliuered you out of the handes of your enemies on euery side, and yee dwelled safe.

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Judges 6:32, Judges 6:32, Judges 4:6, Judges 4:6, Judges 6:14

12Notwithstanding when you sawe, that Nahash the King of the children of Ammon came against you, ye sayde vnto me, No, but a King shall reigne ouer vs: when yet the Lord your God was your King.

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Judges 8:23, Judges 8:23, 1 Samuel 8:5, 1 Samuel 8:7, 1 Samuel 8:5

13Nowe therefore beholde the King whome yee haue chosen, and whome yee haue desired: loe therefore, the Lord hath set a King ouer you.

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1 Samuel 10:24, Hosea 13:11, 1 Samuel 10:24, Hosea 13:11, 1 Samuel 8:5

14If ye wil feare the Lord and serue him, and heare his voyce, and not disobey the worde of the Lord, both yee, and the King that reigneth ouer you, shall follow the Lord your God.

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Joshua 24:14, Joshua 24:14, Deuteronomy 28:1, Deuteronomy 28:14, Deuteronomy 28:1

15But if yee will not obey the voyce of the Lord, but disobey the Lordes mouth, then shall the hand of the Lord be vpon you, and on your fathers.

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Joshua 24:20, Joshua 24:20, Isaiah 1:20, Isaiah 1:20, Isaiah 3:11

16Nowe also stande and see this great thing which the Lord will doe before your eyes.

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Exodus 14:13, Exodus 14:13, Exodus 14:31, Exodus 14:31, 1 Samuel 12:7

17Is it not nowe wheat haruest? I wil call vnto the Lord, and he shall send thunder and raine, that yee may perceiue and see, howe that your wickednesse is great, which ye haue done in the sight of the Lord in asking you a King.

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1 Samuel 8:7, 1 Samuel 8:7, Proverbs 26:1, 1 Samuel 7:9, 1 Samuel 7:10

18Then Samuel called vnto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and raine the same day: and all the people feared the Lord and Samuel exceedingly.

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Exodus 14:31, Exodus 14:31, Ezra 10:9, Ezra 10:9, Psalms 106:12

19And all the people said vnto Samuel, Pray for thy seruaunts vnto the Lord thy God, that we die not: for we haue sinned in asking vs a King, beside all our other sinnes.

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Exodus 9:28, Exodus 9:28, 1 John 5:16, 1 John 5:16, Exodus 10:17

20And Samuel said vnto the people, Feare not. (ye haue indeede done all this wickednesse, yet depart not from following the Lord, but serue the Lord with all your heart,

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Deuteronomy 11:16, Deuteronomy 11:16, Psalms 40:4, Exodus 20:19, Exodus 20:20

21Neither turne yee backe: for that shoulde be after vaine things which cannot profite you, nor deliuer you, for they are but vanitie)

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Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:18, Jeremiah 16:19, Jeremiah 10:15, Jeremiah 16:19

22For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great Names sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.

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Philippians 1:6, Deuteronomy 14:2, Psalms 106:8, Deuteronomy 7:7, Deuteronomy 7:8

23Moreouer God forbid, that I should sinne against the Lord, and cease praying for you, but I will shewe you the good and right way.

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Colossians 1:9, Colossians 1:9, Romans 1:9, Romans 1:9, 2 Timothy 1:3

24Therefore feare you the Lord, and serue him in the trueth with all your hearts, and consider howe great things he hath done for you.

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Deuteronomy 10:21, Deuteronomy 10:21, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 5:12, Proverbs 1:7

25But if ye doe wickedly, ye shall perish, both yee, and your King.

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Joshua 24:20, Joshua 24:20, 1 Samuel 31:1, 1 Samuel 31:5, 1 Samuel 31:1