1 Samuel 12:1
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Samuel’s Farewell Address
12 Samuel said to all Israel, “I have listened to you in all that you have said to me and have set a king over you.(A)
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1 Samuel 10:24
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24 Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one whom the Lord has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”(A)
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1 Samuel 11:14-15
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14 Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship.”(A) 15 So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed offerings of well-being before the Lord, and there Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.(B)
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1 Samuel 10:1
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- 10.1 Gk: Heb lacks over his people Israel. You shall . . . anointed you ruler
1 Samuel 8:19-22
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Israel’s Request for a King Granted
19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they said, “No! We are determined to have a king over us, 20 so that we also may be like other nations and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.”(A) 21 When Samuel heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord. 22 The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice and set a king over them.” Samuel then said to the Israelites, “Each of you return home.”(B)
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1 Samuel 8:5-8
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5 and said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.”(A) 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to govern us.” Samuel prayed to the Lord,(B) 7 and the Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.(C) 8 Just as they have done to me[a] from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you.
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- 8.8 Gk: Heb lacks to me
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