OLD TESTAMENT

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 the LORD will not answer you in that day.”

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Verse 18. The face, privately; for even groans will not be free. Menochius.—The event justified this prediction, as most of the kings of the Hebrews ruled like tyrants, and what was worse, engaged their subjects in idolatry, and drew down the heaviest judgments upon them. Calmet.—Hear you, so as to deliver you from oppression, though he is always willing to hear those who truly repent. Worthington.

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