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“The LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.”
1 Samuel 8:7
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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.
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