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1 Samuel 8:16-22 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

16. He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work.

17. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants.

18. Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day."

19. Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, "No, but there shall be a king over us,

20. that we also may be like all the nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."

21. Now after Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the Lord's hearing.

22. The Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice and appoint them a king." So Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Go every man to his city."

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