5 and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now amake us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
6 But the thing adispleased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel bprayed to the Lord.
7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for athey have not rejected you, but bthey have rejected Me, that I should not reign 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—with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also.
9 Now therefore, heed their voice. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and ashow them the behavior of the king who will reign over them.”
10 So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who asked him for a king.
11 And he said, a“This will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you: He will take your bsons and appoint them for his own cchariots and tobe his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots.
12 He will aappoint captains over his thousands and captains over his fifties, willsetsome to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.
13 He will take your daughters tobe perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
14 And ahe will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants.
15 He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants.
16 And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest1 young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
17 He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his servants.
18 And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the Lordawill not hear you in that day.”
19 Nevertheless the people arefused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us,
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