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But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us!’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands.”
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Verse 19. Families. Lots were first drawn to determine the tribe, then to find out which of the great families, and which house, was to give a king to Israel. Bible.—See Joshua 7:14. Menochius.—God was pleased thus to convince them that the election proceeded from him. Saint Gregory Worthington.
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