{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jps/sa1008.htm","path":"bib/jps/sa1008.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/jps/sa1008.htm","text":"8:1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.\n8:2 Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba.\n8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.\n8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah.\n8:5 And they said unto him: 'Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways; now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.'\n8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said: 'Give us a king to judge us.' And Samuel prayed unto the Lord.\n8:7 And the Lord said unto Samuel: 'Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected Me, that I should not be king over them.\n8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, in that they have forsaken Me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.\n8:9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice; howbeit thou shalt earnestly forewarn them, and shalt declare unto them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.'\n8:10 And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king.\n8:11 And he said: 'This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots.\n8:12 And he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.\n8:13 And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.\n8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.\n8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.\n8:16 And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.\n8:17 He will take the tenth of your flocks; and ye shall be his servants.\n8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not answer you in that day.'\n8:19 But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of Samuel; and they said: 'Nay; but there shall be a king over us;\n8:20 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.'\n8:21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he spoke them in the ears of the Lord.\n8:22 And the Lord said to Samuel: 'Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king.' And Samuel said unto the men of Israel: 'Go ye every man unto his city.'","title":"Jewish Publication Society Bible: 1 Samuel 8","type":"page"}