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1 Samuel

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1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Is­rael. 2 Now the name of his first­born was Joel; and the name of his sec­ond, Abi­ah: they were judges in Beer­she­ba. 3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside af­ter lu­cre, and took bribes, and per­vert­ed judg­ment. 4 Then all the el­ders of Is­rael gath­ered them­selves to­geth­er, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, 5 And 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. 6 But the thing dis­pleased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. 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 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 unto this day, where­with they have for­sak­en me, and served oth­er gods, so do they also unto thee. 9 Now there­fore hear­ken unto their voice: how­beit yet protest solemn­ly unto them, and shew them the man­ner of the king that shall reign over them. 10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the peo­ple that asked of him a king. 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 for him­self, for his char­i­ots, and ­to be his horse­men; and some shall run be­fore his char­i­ots. 12 And he will ap­point him cap­tains over thou­sands, and cap­tains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his har­vest, and to make his in­stru­ments of war, and in­stru­ments of his char­i­ots. 13 And he will take your daugh­ters ­to be con­fec­tionar­ies, and ­to be cooks, and ­to be bak­ers. 14 And he will take your fields, and your vine­yards, and your olive­yards, even the best of them, and give them to his ser­vants. 15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vine­yards, and give to his of­fi­cers, and to his ser­vants. 16 And he will take your menser­vants, and your maid­ser­vants, and your goodli­est young men, and your ass­es, and put them to his work. 17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his ser­vants. 18 And ye shall cry out in that day be­cause of your king which ye shall have cho­sen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day. 19 Nev­er­the­less the peo­ple re­fused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; 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. 21 And Samuel heard all the words of the peo­ple, and he re­hearsed them in the ears of the LORD. 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.