World English Bible
1 Samuel 8:18
“You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 8
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He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
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He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
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You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.
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But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No; 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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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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