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and to make his instruments of war, and instru- 

 ments of his chariots. And he will take your 

 daughters to be confectionaries, to be cooks, 

 and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, 

 and your vineyards, and your olive-yards, even the 

 best of them, and give them to his servants. And 

 he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your 

 vineyards, and give to his officers and to his servants. 

 And he will take your men-servants, and your 

 maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and 

 your asses, and put them to his work. He will 

 take the tenth of your sheep : and ye shall be his 

 servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because 

 of your King which ye shall have chosen ; and the 

 Lord shall not hear you in that day." 



Samuel very probably spoke from a knowledge 

 of the customs and practices of the kingly courts 

 in the countries surrounding Juclea; and in that 

 case the principles of home policy which direct the 

 Sovereign of Shoa in governing his people, appear 

 to have come down to him from a very remote 

 time ; nor can the unfair balance of power we 

 observe between him and his people be charged to 

 his own cunning and selfish intrigues. With the pre- 

 judices inseparable from his education as a king, he 

 always feels jealous of his prerogative and of his 

 power, and the threatened climinishment in the 

 extent of either arouses his attention immediately. 

 He is perfectly aware that man's nature will not 

 allow him to submit entirely to the arbitrary rule 



