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I Samuel Chapter 8

I Samuel
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I Samuel

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First Samuel 8 records how Samuel's sons, appointed judges, turned aside after bribes, prompting the elders of Israel to ask for a king so they could be like the other nations. The Lord tells Samuel to grant their request but to warn them solemnly of the rights a king will claim—their sons for his army, their daughters for his service, the best of their fields and flocks, and their own servitude. Despite the warning, the people refuse to listen, so the Lord tells Samuel to make them a king, and Samuel sends them home.

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(1) And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
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Deuteronomy 16:18Deuteronomy 16:19Judges 8:22Judges 8:23II Chronicles 19:5II Chronicles 19:6Nehemiah 7:2I Timothy 5:21Judges 5:10Judges 10:4Judges 12:14

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I Samuel 3:10

(2) Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.
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I Chronicles 6:28I Chronicles 6:38

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Exodus 11:5Exodus 12:29Exodus 13:15Numbers 3:13

(3) And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
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II Samuel 15:4I Kings 12:6I Kings 12:7I Kings 12:8I Kings 12:9I Kings 12:10I Kings 12:11II Kings 21:1II Kings 21:2II Kings 21:3Ecclesiastes 2:19Jeremiah 22:15

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I Kings 22:43Ruth 4:1II Samuel 18:30II Kings 22:2Psalms 78:57Lamentations 3:11

(4) Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
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Exodus 3:16Exodus 24:1II Samuel 5:3

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32I Samuel 25:1I Samuel 16:13I Samuel 19:18I Samuel 19:22

(5) And 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.
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I Samuel 8:6I Samuel 8:7I Samuel 8:8I Samuel 8:19I Samuel 8:20I Samuel 12:17Numbers 23:9Deuteronomy 17:14Deuteronomy 17:15Hosea 13:10Hosea 13:11Acts 13:21

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Zechariah 3:7I Kings 3:14Jeremiah 6:16

(6) But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
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I Samuel 12:17I Samuel 15:11Exodus 32:21Exodus 32:32Numbers 16:15Numbers 16:22Numbers 16:46Ezra 9:3Ezra 9:4Ezra 9:5Psalms 109:4Luke 6:11

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I Samuel 3:10I Samuel 3:6I Samuel 3:9I Samuel 3:15I Samuel 3:16I Samuel 7:9

(7) And the LORD 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 reign over them.
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Numbers 22:20Psalms 81:11Psalms 81:12Isaiah 66:4Hosea 13:10Hosea 13:11I Samuel 10:19I Samuel 12:17I Samuel 12:18I Samuel 12:19Exodus 16:8Matthew 10:24

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I Samuel 15:26I Samuel 15:23I Samuel 8:22I Samuel 3:10I Samuel 16:1

(8) According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
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Exodus 14:11Exodus 14:12Exodus 16:3Exodus 17:2Exodus 32:1Numbers 14:2Numbers 14:3Numbers 14:4Numbers 16:2Numbers 16:3Numbers 16:41Deuteronomy 9:24

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Judges 10:6Jeremiah 16:11Deuteronomy 29:26Joshua 24:15Judges 10:13II Kings 22:17

(9) Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
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Ezekiel 3:18I Samuel 8:11I Samuel 8:12I Samuel 8:13I Samuel 8:14I Samuel 8:15I Samuel 8:16I Samuel 8:17I Samuel 8:18I Samuel 2:13I Samuel 10:25I Samuel 14:52

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II Kings 17:40

(10) And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
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I Kings 3:11II Chronicles 1:11I Samuel 3:10

(11) And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
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I Samuel 10:25Deuteronomy 17:14Deuteronomy 17:15Deuteronomy 17:16Deuteronomy 17:17Deuteronomy 17:18Deuteronomy 17:19Deuteronomy 17:20I Samuel 14:52I Kings 9:22I Kings 9:23I Kings 10:26

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I Kings 10:26II Chronicles 1:14II Samuel 8:4I Chronicles 18:4Psalms 20:7Ephesians 4:11

(12) And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
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I Chronicles 27:1I Chronicles 27:2I Chronicles 27:3I Chronicles 27:4I Chronicles 27:5I Chronicles 27:6I Chronicles 27:7I Chronicles 27:8I Chronicles 27:9I Chronicles 27:10I Chronicles 27:11I Chronicles 27:12

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Deuteronomy 1:15I Chronicles 28:1II Chronicles 8:9II Chronicles 25:5Numbers 31:48I Chronicles 28:14

(13) And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
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Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43Jeremiah 29:6Ezekiel 16:55

(14) And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
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I Samuel 22:7I Kings 21:7I Kings 21:19Ezekiel 46:18

(15) And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
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Genesis 37:36Isaiah 39:7Daniel 1:3Daniel 1:7Daniel 1:8Daniel 1:9Daniel 1:10Daniel 1:18

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Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26

(16) And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
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Genesis 12:16Deuteronomy 22:6Isaiah 30:6Genesis 24:35Genesis 30:43

(17) He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
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Exodus 22:1John 10:12

(18) 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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Isaiah 8:21Job 27:9Psalms 18:41Proverbs 1:25Proverbs 1:26Proverbs 1:27Proverbs 1:28Proverbs 21:13Isaiah 1:15Micah 3:4Luke 13:25

(19) 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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Psalms 81:11Jeremiah 7:13Jeremiah 44:16Ezekiel 33:31

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I Samuel 15:35I Samuel 3:10

(20) 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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I Samuel 8:5Exodus 33:16Leviticus 20:24Leviticus 20:25Leviticus 20:26Numbers 23:9Deuteronomy 7:6Psalms 106:35John 15:19Romans 12:12II Corinthians 6:17Philippians 3:20

(21) And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
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Judges 11:11

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I Samuel 3:10

(22) And the LORD 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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I Samuel 8:7Hosea 13:11

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I Samuel 3:10I Samuel 3:6I Samuel 3:9I Samuel 3:15I Samuel 3:16I Samuel 7:9

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