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Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him awhom the Lord has chosen? Surely there is no one like him among all the people." So all the people shouted and said, "bLong live the king!"
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Deuteronomy 17:15, 2 Samuel 21:6
Deuteronomy 17
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you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses, oneafrom among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.
2 Samuel 21
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let seven men from his sons be given to us, and we will hang them abefore the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, bthe chosen of the Lord." And the king said, "I will give them."