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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Samuel told all Israel, "Take note! I've listened to you, to everything you have told me, and I've appointed a king over you. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Now here is the king walking before you, while I'm old and gray, and my sons are with you. I've walked before you from my youth until this day. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Here I am. Testify against me in the LORD's presence and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken? Who have I cheated? Who have I oppressed? Who bribed me to look the other way? I'll restore it to you." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They said, "You haven't cheated us or oppressed us, and you haven't taken anything from anyone's hand." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He told them, "Today the LORD is testifying, along with his anointed, that you haven't found any bribes in my possession." They said, "He's a witness." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Then Samuel told the people, "It is the LORD who appointed Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors up out of the land of Egypt. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Now stand up and I'll pass judgment on you in light of the LORD's righteous acts that he did for you and your ancestors. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8After Jacob went to Egypt, and your ancestors cried out to the LORD, he sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But they forgot the LORD their God, so he handed them over to the domination of Sisera, the commander of the army of Hazor, and into domination by the Philistines and by the king of Moab, and Israel fought against them. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"Then they cried out to the LORD: 'We have sinned because we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.' |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel and he delivered you from the hand of your enemies on every side, so that you lived securely. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But when you saw that Nahash, king of the Ammonites, was coming to fight you, you told me, 'No, let a king rule over us instead,' even though the LORD your God was your king. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Now, here is the king you have chosen, the one whom you asked for. See, the Lord has appointed a king over you. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If you fear the LORD, serve him, obey him, and don't rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then both you and the king who rules over you will truly follow the LORD your God. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But if you don't obey the LORD and rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then the LORD will turn against you as he did against your ancestors. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Now then, stand up and see this great thing that the LORD is about to do before your eyes. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Is it not the wheat harvest today? I'll call upon the LORD, and he will send thunder and rain. Then you will know and understand that you have done a great evil in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king for yourselves." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Samuel called upon the LORD that same day, and the LORD sent thunder and rain. So all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Then all the people told Samuel, "Pray to the LORD your God for your servants, so that we don't die, because we made all our sins worse by asking for a king for ourselves." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Samuel told all the people, "Don't be afraid. You have done all this evil. Yet don't turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Don't turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or deliver because they're useless. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Indeed, the LORD won't abandon His people for the sake of His great name, for the LORD desires to make you a people for himself. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Now as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you. I'll also instruct you in the way that is good and right. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Only, fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Indeed, consider what great things he has done for you. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away." |
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