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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 first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.³ And his sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after greed for monetary gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

⁴ Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;⁵ and they said to him, Look, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your 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 to Yahweh.⁷ And Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they haven't rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king 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, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.⁹ Now therefore listen to their voice: nevertheless you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.¹⁰ And Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to 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 to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;¹² and he will appoint them to himself 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.¹³ And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, 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 slaves.¹⁵ And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his slaves.¹⁶ And he will take your male slaves, and your female slaves, and your goodliest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.¹⁷ He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his slaves.¹⁸ And you 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.¹⁹ But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No: 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 Yahweh.²² And Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go every man to his city.