and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now (A)appoint us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

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19 Yet the people (A)refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, “No, but there shall be a king over us, 20 (B)so that we also may be like all the nations, and our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

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19 But today you (A)have rejected your God, who saves you from all your catastrophes and your distresses; yet you have [a]said, ‘No, but put a king over us!’ Now then, (B)present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your [b]groups of thousands.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 10:19 As in several mss and ancient versions; MT said to Him
  2. 1 Samuel 10:19 Or clans

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