81 Samuel 8

1When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.Select 1 Samuel 8:1

2Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beersheba.Select 1 Samuel 8:2

3His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.Select 1 Samuel 8:3

4Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;Select 1 Samuel 8:4

5and 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.”Select 1 Samuel 8:5

6But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.Select 1 Samuel 8:6

7Yahweh 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, that I should not be king over them.Select 1 Samuel 8:7

8According 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 do they also to you.Select 1 Samuel 8:8

9Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who shall reign over them.”Select 1 Samuel 8:9

10Samuel told all Yahweh’s words to the people who asked of him a king.Select 1 Samuel 8:10

11He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;Select 1 Samuel 8:11

12and 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.Select 1 Samuel 8:12

13He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.Select 1 Samuel 8:13

14He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.Select 1 Samuel 8:14

15He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.Select 1 Samuel 8:15

16He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.Select 1 Samuel 8:16

17He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.Select 1 Samuel 8:17

18You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”Select 1 Samuel 8:18

19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,Select 1 Samuel 8:19

20that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”Select 1 Samuel 8:20

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

22Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Every man go to his city.”Select 1 Samuel 8:22