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1 And Samuel will say to all Israel, Behold, I heard to your voice, to all that ye said to me, and I will make a king over you. 2 And now, behold, the king going before you: and I grew old and I was gray-headed; and my sons, behold them with you: and I went before you from my youth even to this day. 3 Behold me: answer against me before Jehovah and before his Messiah, whose ox did I take? or whose ass did I take? and whom did I oppress? whom did I vex? and from whose hand did I take a ransom and hidden mine eyes with it? and I will turn back to you. 4 And they will say, Thou didst not oppress us, and thou didst not vex us, and thou didst not take any thing from man's hand. 5 And he will say to them, Jehovah the witness against you, and his Messiah the witness this day that ye found nothing in my hand. And he will say, A witness. 6 And Samuel will say to the people, Jehovah who made Moses and Aaron, and who brought up your fathers from the land of Egypt. 7 And now, stand ye, and I will judge you before Jehovah, all the justices of Jehovah which he did with you and with your fathers. 8 When Jacob came into Egypt, and your fathers will cry to Jehovah, and Jehovah will send Moses and Aaron, and they will bring forth your fathers from Egypt, and they will turn them back into this place. 9 And they will forget Jehovah their God, and he will sell them into the hand of Sisera, chief of the army of Razor, and into the hand of Philisteim, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they will war against them. 10 And they will cry to Jehovah, and say, We sinned, for we forsook Jehovah, and we shall serve the Baalims and Ashtaroth: and now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies and we will serve thee. 11 And Jehovah will send Jerubbaal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel, and he will deliver you from the hand of your enemies from round about, and ye shall dwell confidently. 12 And ye will see that Nahash, king of the sons of Ammon, came against you, and ye will say to me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: and Jehovah your God your king. 13 And now, behold the king which ye chose, which ye asked! and behold, Jehovah gave a king over you. 1 Samuel 12:1-13, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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