1 Samuel-8

(World English Bible)

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  • 1 When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
  • 2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.
  • 3 His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
  • 4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.
  • 5 They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
  • 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
  • 7 Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.
  • 8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.
  • 9 Now therefore listen to their voice. However you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who will reign over them.”
  • 10 Samuel told all Yahweh’s words to the people who asked him for a king.
  • 11 He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.
  • 12 He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
  • 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.
  • 14 He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.
  • 15 He will take one tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his servants.
  • 16 He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
  • 17 He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.
  • 18 You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
  • 19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,
  • 20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”
  • 21 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.
  • 22 Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go to your own city.”
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