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Philistims came to fight against Israel: but the shall be the maner of the King that shall reigne
Lord thundred with a great thunder that day ouer you: he will take your sonnes, and appoint
vpon the Philistims, and scattered them: so they them to his charets, and to be his horsemen, and
were slaine before Israel. 11 And the men of Israel some shall runne before his charet. 12 Also he will
went from Mizpeh and pursued the Philistims, make them his captaines ouer thousands, and
and smote them vntill they came vnder Beth- captaines ouer fifties, and to eare his ground, and
car. 12 Then Samuel tooke a stone and pitched it to reape his haruest, and to make instruments of
betweene Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name warre, and the thinges that serue for his charets.
thereof, Eben-ezer, and he sayd, Hitherto hath 13 He will also take your daughters and make
the Lord holpen vs. 13 So the Philistims were them apoticaries, and cookes, and bakers. 14 And
brought vnder, and they came no more againe he will take your fieldes, and your vineyardes,
into the coastes of Israel: and the hand of the and your best Oliue trees, and giue them to his
Lord was against the Philistims all the dayes of seruants. 15 And he will take the tenth of your
Samuel. 14 Also the cities which the Philistims seede, and of your vineyards, and giue it to his
had taken from Israel, were restored to Israel, Eunuches, and to his seruants. 16 And he will take
from Ekron euen to Gath: and Israel deliuered your men seruants, and your maide seruants, and
the coastes of the same out of the hands of the the chiefe of your yong men, and your asses, and
Philistims: and there was peace betweene Israel 17
and the Amorites. 15 And Samuel iudged Israel put them to his worke. He will take the tenth of
your sheepe, and ye shall be his seruants.
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all the dayes of his life, 16 And went about yeere ye shall crie out at that day, because of your King,
by yere to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and whom ye haue chosen you, and the Lord will not
iudged Israel in all those places. 17 Afterward hee heare you at that day. 19 But the people would not
returned to Ramah: for there was his house, and
there he iudged Israel: also he built an altar there heare the voyce of Samuel, but did say, Nay, but
vnto the Lord. there shall be a King ouer vs. 20 And we also will
be like all other nations, and our King shall iudge
8 vs, and goe out before vs, and fight our battels.
1 When Samuel was nowe become olde, he 21 Therefore when Samuel heard all ye wordes of
made his sonnes Iudges ouer Israel. 2 (And the ye people, he rehearsed the in ye eares of ye Lord.
name of his eldest sonne was Ioel, and the name 22 And the Lord saide to Samuel, Hearken vnto
of the second Abiah) euen Iudges in Beer-sheba. their voyce, and make them a King. And Samuel
3 And his sonnes walked not in his wayes, but said vnto the men of Israel, Goe euery man vnto
turned aside after lucre, and tooke rewards, and his citie.
peruerted the iudgement. 4 Wherefore all the
Elders of Israel gathered them together, and 9
came to Samuel vnto Ramah, And said vnto him, 1 There was nowe a man of Beniamin, mightie
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Beholde, thou art olde, and thy sonnes walke not in power named Kish, the sonne of Abiel, the
in thy wayes: make vs nowe a King to iudge vs sonne of Zeror, the sonne of Bechorath, the
likeallnations. ButthethingdispleasedSamuel, sonne of Aphiah, the sonne of a man of Iemini.
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when they said, Giue vs a King to iudge vs: and 2 And he had a sonne called Saul, a goodly yong
Samuel prayed vnto the Lord. And the Lord said man and a faire: so that among the children of
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vnto Samuel, Heare the voyce of the people in Israel there was none goodlier then he: from the
all that they shall say vnto thee: for they haue shoulders vpwarde he was hier then any of the
not cast thee away, but they haue cast me away, people. And the asses of Kish Sauls father were
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that I should not reigne ouer the. As they haue lost: therefore Kish said to Saul his sonne, Take
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euer done since I brought them out of Egypt euen nowe one of the seruants with thee, and arise,
vnto this day, (and haue forsaken me, and serued goe, and seeke the asses. So he passed through
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other gods) euen so doe they vnto thee. 9 Nowe mount Ephraim, and went through the lande of
therefore hearken vnto their voyce: howbeit yet Shalishah, but they found them not. Then they
testifie vnto them, and shewe them the maner of went through the land of Shalim, and there they
ye King that shall reigne ouer them. 10 So Samuel were not: he went also through ye land of Iemini,
told all the wordes of the Lord vnto the people but they found the not. When they came to the
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that asked a King of him. 11 And he saide, This lande of Zuph, Saul saide vnto his seruant that