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1 Samuel 8:22
“Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and make them a king." Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Every man go to his city.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 8
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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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Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.
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Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and make them a king." Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Every man go to his city.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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