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Samuel prayed to the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The LORD said to Samuel, "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. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>According to all the works which they have done to me 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who shall reign over them."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked of him a king. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He said, "This will be the way 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands, and commanders of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and gather his vintage, and to make his implements of war, and the equipment of his chariots. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best cattle, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not answer you in that day."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No; but we will have a king over us, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>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." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The LORD said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and make them a king." 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