17 Is it not now wheat harvest? I will call unto the Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain, that ye may perceive and see, how that your wickedness is [a]great, which ye have done in the sight of the Lord in asking you a king.

18 Then Samuel called unto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain the same day: and all the people feared the Lord and Samuel exceedingly.

19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die not: for we have sinned in asking us a King, beside [b]all our other sins.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 12:17 In that ye have forsaken him, who hath all power in his hand, for a mortal man.
  2. 1 Samuel 12:19 Not only at other times, but now chiefly.

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