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1 Samuel 8:18

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You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

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1 Samuel 8:18 in other translations

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.

1 Samuel 8:18 · American Standard Version

1 Samuel 8:18 in context

  1. 16He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
  2. 17He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.
  3. 18You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
  4. 19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,
  5. 20that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”