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And now you spurn the due ordering of sacrifice and oblation in my sanctuary; the sons of Heli must have a privilege higher than my own; yours must be the first taste of every sacrifice my people Israel bring to me! (1 Samuel 2, 29)
Israel has been routed by the Philistines, the messenger answered, and there is great havoc wrought among the people; and thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are dead; and the ark of God was taken. (1 Samuel 4, 17)
And they summoned all the Philistine chiefs, who determined that the ark must be sent back whence it came, before it brought death on themselves and their people. (1 Samuel 5, 11)
What avails it, to harden your hearts against repentance? So Pharao and Egypt with him hardened their hearts, and would not let his people go till they had felt all his plagues, but in the end they went. (1 Samuel 6, 6)
And the Lord smote some of the Bethsamites themselves, for prying into the ark of the Lord. (And he smote seventy men out of the people, and fifty thousand of the common folk.✻ ) Over this visitation the Lord had brought on them there was great grief among the people; (1 Samuel 6, 19)
the Lord said to him, Grant the people all they ask of thee. It is my rule over them they are casting off, not thine. (1 Samuel 8, 7)
In answer, then, to their request for a king, Samuel told the people all the Lord had said to him. (1 Samuel 8, 10)
and when you cry out for redress against the king you have chosen for yourselves, the Lord will not listen to you; you asked for a king. (1 Samuel 8, 18)
But Samuel could not gain the ear of the people; That will not serve, they cried out; a king, we must have a king! (1 Samuel 8, 19)
look for him as soon as you enter the city, before he goes up to take part in the feast. The people must await his coming before they can eat; he blesses the victim first, and then the guests will sit down. Up with you at once; this is the time when you will find him. (1 Samuel 9, 13)
At this time of day to-morrow I am sending a man of Benjamin on an errand to thee. He it is thou must anoint to be the king of my people Israel; he is to deliver them from the power of the Philistines. Their plaints have not gone unheard, nor unheeded. (1 Samuel 9, 16)
And now, when Saul first met his eyes, the Lord told Samuel, This is the man of whom I spoke to thee; this is to be the ruler of my people. (1 Samuel 9, 17)
