81 Samuel 8

1And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he appointed his sons to be judges over Israel.Select 1 Samuel 8:1

2Now the name of his firstborn son was Joel: and the name of the second was Abia, judges in Bersabee.Select 1 Samuel 8:2

3And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.Select 1 Samuel 8:3

4Then all the ancients of Israel being assembled came to Samuel to Ramatha.Select 1 Samuel 8:4

5And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.Select 1 Samuel 8:5

6And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they should say: Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.Select 1 Samuel 8:6

7And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.Select 1 Samuel 8:7

8According to all their works, they have done from the day that I brought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and served strange gods, so do they also unto thee.Select 1 Samuel 8:8

9Now, therefore, hearken to their voice: but yet testify to them, and foretell them the right of the king, that shall reign over them.Select 1 Samuel 8:9

10Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that had desired a king of him,Select 1 Samuel 8:10

11And said: This will be the right of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and will make them his horsemen, and his running footmen, to run before his chariots,Select 1 Samuel 8:11

12And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and his centurions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make him arms and chariots.Select 1 Samuel 8:12

13Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.Select 1 Samuel 8:13

14And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best oliveyards, and give them to his servants.Select 1 Samuel 8:14

15Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants.Select 1 Samuel 8:15

16Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work.Select 1 Samuel 8:16

17Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.Select 1 Samuel 8:17

18And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.Select 1 Samuel 8:18

19But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, and they said, Nay: but there shall be a king over us,Select 1 Samuel 8:19

20And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.Select 1 Samuel 8:20

21And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.Select 1 Samuel 8:21

22And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel: Let every man go to his city.Select 1 Samuel 8:22