1It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

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Deuteronomy 16:18, Deuteronomy 16:19, Deuteronomy 16:18, Deuteronomy 16:19, 1 Timothy 5:21

2Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beersheba.

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1 Kings 19:3, 1 Chronicles 6:38, Genesis 22:19, Amos 5:5, 1 Chronicles 6:28

3His sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

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Deuteronomy 16:19, Deuteronomy 16:19, 1 Timothy 6:10, Psalms 15:5, 1 Timothy 6:10

4Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;

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1 Samuel 7:17, 1 Samuel 7:17, Exodus 3:16, Exodus 24:1, 2 Samuel 5:3

5and they said to him, "Behold, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations."

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Deuteronomy 17:14, Deuteronomy 17:15, Deuteronomy 17:14, Deuteronomy 17:15, 1 Samuel 8:6

6But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." Samuel prayed to the Lord.

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1 Samuel 15:11, 1 Samuel 15:11, 1 Samuel 12:17, James 1:5, 1 Samuel 12:17

7The Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

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1 Samuel 10:19, 1 Samuel 10:19, Exodus 16:8, Luke 19:27, Luke 10:16

8According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.

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Exodus 32:1, Psalms 106:34, Psalms 106:40, Exodus 32:1, Psalms 106:34

9Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who shall reign over them."

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1 Samuel 10:25, 1 Samuel 10:25, 1 Samuel 8:11, 1 Samuel 8:18, 1 Samuel 8:11

10Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who asked of him a king.

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11He said, "This will be the way 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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1 Samuel 14:52, 1 Samuel 14:52, 1 Samuel 10:25, Deuteronomy 17:14, Deuteronomy 17:20

12and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign 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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1 Chronicles 27:1, 1 Chronicles 27:22, 1 Kings 4:7, 1 Kings 4:27, 1 Kings 4:28

13He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

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14He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.

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Ezekiel 46:18, Ezekiel 46:18, 1 Kings 21:7, 1 Kings 21:7, 1 Samuel 22:7

15He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

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Daniel 1:7, Daniel 1:10, Genesis 37:36, Daniel 1:18, Isaiah 39:7

16He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

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17He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.

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18You 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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Micah 3:4, Micah 3:4, Isaiah 1:15, Proverbs 1:25, Proverbs 1:28

19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No; but we will have a king over us,

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Jeremiah 44:16, Jeremiah 44:16, Isaiah 66:4, Ezekiel 33:31, Psalms 81:11

20that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles."

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1 Samuel 8:5, 1 Samuel 8:5, 2 Corinthians 6:17, Deuteronomy 7:6, Exodus 33:16

21Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.

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Judges 11:11, Judges 11:11

22The Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and make them a king." Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Every man go to his city."

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1 Samuel 8:7, 1 Samuel 8:7, Hosea 13:11, Hosea 13:11