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Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Samuel 8:17

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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8:17 you will be his slaves: By demanding a king, the people whose ancestors had once been slaves in Egypt were risking a new enslavement (cp. 1 Kgs 12:1-20).
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