1Forsothe Samuel seide to al Israel, Lo! Y herde youre vois bi alle thingis whiche ye spaken to me, and Y ordeynede a kyng on 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

2and now the king goith bifor you. Sotheli Y wexide eld and hoor; forsothe my sones ben with you; therfor Y lyuyde bifor you fro my yong wexynge age `til to this dai. And lo!

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

3Y am redi; speke ye to me bifor the Lord, and bifor `the crist of hym; whether Y took `the oxe of ony man, ether the asse; if Y falsly chalengide ony mon; yf Y oppresside ony man; if Y took yifte of `the hond of ony man; and Y schal `dispise it to dai, and Y schal restore to you.

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

4And thei seiden, Thou hast not falsly chalengid vs, nether hast oppressid vs, nether hast take ony thing of `the hond of ony man.

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

5And he seide to hem, The Lord is witnesse ayens you, and his crist is witnesse in this day; for ye han not founde ony thing in myn hond. And thei seiden, Witnesse.

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

6And Samuel seide to the puple, The Lord, that made Moises and Aaron, and ledde youre fadris out of the lond of Egipt, is present;

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

7now therfor stonde ye, that Y stryue bi doom ayens you bifor the Lord, of alle the mercyes of the Lord, whiche he dide with you, and with youre fadris.

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

8Hou Jacob entride in to Egipt, and youre fadris crieden to the Lord; and the Lord sente Moises and Aaron, and ledde youre fadris out of Egipt, and settide hem in this place.

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

9Whiche foryaten her Lord God; and he bitook hem in the hond of Sisara, maystir of the chyualrie of Asor, and in the hond of Filisteis, and in the hond of the kyng of Moab; and thei fouyten ayens hem.

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

10Sotheli afterward thei crieden to the Lord, and seiden, We synneden, for we forsoken the Lord, and seruyden Baalym and Astroth; now therfor delyuere thou vs fro `the hond of oure enemyes, and we schulen serue thee.

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

11And the Lord sente Gerobaal, and `Bedan, that is, Sampson, and Barach, and Jepte, and Samuel, and delyuerede you fro the hond of youre enemyes bi cumpass; and ye dwelliden tristili.

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

12Forsothe ye sien, that Naas, kyng of the sones of Amon, cam ayens you; and ye seiden to me, counseilynge to axe noon other kyng than God, Nay, but a kyng schal comaunde to vs; whanne `youre Lord God regnede in you.

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

13Now therfor youre kyng is redi, whom ye han chose and axid; lo! the Lord yaf to you a kyng.

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

14If ye dreden the Lord, and seruen hym, and heren his vois, and wraththen not the `mouth of the Lord; ye and youre kyng, that comaundith to you, schulen sue youre Lord God.

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

15Forsothe if ye heren not the vois of `the Lord, but wraththen his word, the hond of the Lord schal be on you, and on youre fadris.

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

16But also now stonde ye, and se this gret thing which the Lord schal make in youre siyt.

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

17Whether heruest of whete is not `to dai? I schal inwardli clepe the Lord, and he schal yyue voices, `that is, thundris, and reynes; and ye schulen wite, and schulen se, for ye axynge a kyng on you han do greuouse yuel to you in the siyt of the Lord.

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

18And Samuel criede to the Lord, and the Lord yaf voices and reynes in that dai.

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

19And al the puple dredde greetli the Lord and Samuel; and al the puple seide to Samuel, Preye thou for thi seruauntis to thi Lord God, that we die not; for we addiden yuel to alle oure synnes, that we axiden a kyng to vs.

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

20Forsothe Samuel seide to the puple, `Nyle ye drede; ye han do al this yuel; netheles `nyle ye go awey fro the bak of the Lord, but serue ye the Lord in al youre herte;

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

21and nyle ye bowe aftir veyn thingis, that schulen not profite to you, nether schulen delyuere you; for tho ben veyn thingis.

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

22And the Lord schal not forsake his puple for his grete name; for the Lord swoor to make you a puple to hym silf.

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

23Forsothe this synne be fer fro me in the Lord, that Y ceesse to preye for you; and Y schal teche you a riytful weie and good.

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

24Therfor drede ye the Lord, and `serue ye hym in treuthe, and of al youre herte; for ye sien tho grete thingis, whiche he `dide in you;

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

25that if ye contynuen in malice, bothe ye and youre kyng schulen perische to gidere.

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