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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "1SA-8:1",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.1",
        "text": "And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "1SA-8:2",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.2",
        "text": "Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "1SA-8:3",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.3",
        "text": "And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "1SA-8:4",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.4",
        "text": "Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah;"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "1SA-8:5",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.5",
        "text": "and they said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "1SA-8:6",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.6",
        "text": "But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "1SA-8:7",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.7",
        "text": "And Jehovah said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "1SA-8:8",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.8",
        "text": "According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "1SA-8:9",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.9",
        "text": "Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit thou shalt protest solemnly unto them, and shalt show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "1SA-8:10",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.10",
        "text": "And Samuel told all the words of Jehovah unto the people that asked of him a king."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "1SA-8:11",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.11",
        "text": "And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "1SA-8:12",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.12",
        "text": "and he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "1SA-8:13",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.13",
        "text": "And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "1SA-8:14",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.14",
        "text": "And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "1SA-8:15",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.15",
        "text": "And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "1SA-8:16",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.16",
        "text": "And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "1SA-8:17",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.17",
        "text": "He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "1SA-8:18",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.18",
        "text": "And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "1SA-8:19",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.19",
        "text": "But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay: but we will have a king over us,"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "1SA-8:20",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.20",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "1SA-8:21",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.21",
        "text": "And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "1SA-8:22",
        "verseRef": "1Sam.8.22",
        "text": "And Jehovah said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city."
      }
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