King James Version (KJV)
1 Samuel 8:19
“Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 8
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He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
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And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
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Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
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That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
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And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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