1 Samuel 12:19-21

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¹⁹Then all the people said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for your servants, ^[a]so that we will not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil—to ask for a king for ourselves.” ²⁰Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid. You have [indeed] done all this evil; yet do not turn away from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. ²¹You must not turn away, for then you would go after futile things which cannot profit or rescue, because they are futile.

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Footnotes

1 Samuel 12:19 The fifty days between the beginning of the barley harvest (Passover) and the end of the wheat harvest (Pentecost) are called the “days of trepidation.” During these fifty days, the farmers pray that it will not rain because all the major crops of the land (the seven varieties of Deut 8:7-10) come to fruition during this time. The rain destroys crops in the field and any produce that has been harvested and covered. The resulting famine from the crop failure would result in many deaths.