|
Reference
|
Text
|
|
1 Samuel 8:1
|
It happened, when Shemu'el was old, that he made his sons judges over Yisra'el.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:2
|
Now the name of his firstborn was Yo'el; and the name of his second, Aviyah: they were judges in Be'er-Sheva.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:3
|
His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:4
|
Then all the elders of Yisra'el gathered themselves together, and came to Shemu'el to Ramah;
|
|
1 Samuel 8:5
|
and 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.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:6
|
But the thing displeased Shemu'el, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. Shemu'el prayed to the LORD.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:7
|
The LORD said to Shemu'el, 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.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:8
|
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 do they also to you.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:9
|
Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who shall reign over them.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:10
|
Shemu'el told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked of him a king.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:11
|
He said, This will be the manner 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;
|
|
1 Samuel 8:12
|
and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:13
|
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:14
|
He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:15
|
He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:16
|
He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:17
|
He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:18
|
You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not answer you in that day.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:19
|
But the people refused to listen to the voice of Shemu'el; and they said, No: but we will have a king over us,
|
|
1 Samuel 8:20
|
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.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:21
|
Shemu'el heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
|
|
1 Samuel 8:22
|
The LORD said to Shemu'el, Listen to their voice, and make them a king. Shemu'el said to the men of Yisra'el, Go you every man to his city.
|
