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1 Samuel 8
- 1 Now when Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
- 2 The name of his first son was Joel and the name of his second Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
- 3 And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.
- 4 Then all the responsible men of Israel got together and went to Samuel at Ramah,
- 5 And said to him, See now, you are old, and your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that we may be like the other nations.
- 6 But Samuel was not pleased when they said to him, Give us a king to be our judge. And Samuel made prayer to the Lord.
- 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.
- 8 As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.
- 9 Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler.
- 10 And Samuel said all these words of the Lord to the people who were desiring a king.
- 11 And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;
- 12 And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.
- 13 Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.
- 14 He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.
- 15 He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.
- 16 He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.
- 17 He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.
- 18 Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.
- 19 But the people gave no attention to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,
- 20 So that we may be like the other nations, and so that our king may be our judge and go out before us to war.
- 21 Then Samuel, after hearing all the people had to say, went and gave an account of it to the Lord.
- 22 And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to their voice and make a king for them. Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, Let every man go back to his town.
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