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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Samuel 8 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_samuel/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_samuel/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > 1 Samuel 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_samuel/7.htm" title="1 Samuel 7">◄</a> 1 Samuel 8 <a href="../1_samuel/9.htm" title="1 Samuel 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The People Ask for a King</h3><p class="par"><span class="v9_8_1"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.1" class="v9_8_1">1</span>When Samuel grew old, he made his sons judges in Israel. </span><span class="v9_8_2"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.2" class="v9_8_2">2</span>The older son was named Joel and the younger one Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. </span><span class="v9_8_3"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.3" class="v9_8_3">3</span>But they did not follow their father's example; they were interested only in making money, so they accepted bribes and did not decide cases honestly.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_8_4"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.4" class="v9_8_4">4</span>Then all the leaders of Israel met together, went to Samuel in Ramah, </span><span class="v9_8_5"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.5" class="v9_8_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.8.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and said to him, “Look, you are getting old and your sons don't follow your example. So then, appoint a king to rule over us, so that we will have a king, as other countries have.” </span><span class="v9_8_6"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.6" class="v9_8_6">6</span>Samuel was displeased with their request for a king; so he prayed to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, </span><span class="v9_8_7"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.7" class="v9_8_7">7</span>and the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said, “Listen to everything the people say to you. You are not the one they have rejected; I am the one they have rejected as their king. </span><span class="v9_8_8"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.8" class="v9_8_8">8</span>Ever since I brought them out of Egypt, they have turned away from me and worshiped other gods; and now they are doing to you what they have always done to me. </span><span class="v9_8_9"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.9" class="v9_8_9">9</span>So then, listen to them, but give them strict warnings and explain how their kings will treat them.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_8_10"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.10" class="v9_8_10">10</span>Samuel told the people who were asking him for a king everything that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had said to him. </span><span class="v9_8_11"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.11" class="v9_8_11">11</span>“This is how your king will treat you,” Samuel explained. “He will make soldiers of your sons; some of them will serve in his war chariots, others in his cavalry, and others will run before his chariots. </span><span class="v9_8_12"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.12" class="v9_8_12">12</span>He will make some of them officers in charge of a thousand men, and others in charge of fifty men. Your sons will have to plow his fields, harvest his crops, and make his weapons and the equipment for his chariots. </span><span class="v9_8_13"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.13" class="v9_8_13">13</span>Your daughters will have to make perfumes for him and work as his cooks and his bakers. </span><span class="v9_8_14"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.14" class="v9_8_14">14</span>He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his officials. </span><span class="v9_8_15"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.15" class="v9_8_15">15</span>He will take a tenth of your grain and of your grapes for his court officers and other officials. </span><span class="v9_8_16"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.16" class="v9_8_16">16</span>He will take your servants and your best cattle<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.8.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and donkeys, and make them work for him. </span><span class="v9_8_17"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.17" class="v9_8_17">17</span>He will take a tenth of your flocks. And you yourselves will become his slaves. </span><span class="v9_8_18"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.18" class="v9_8_18">18</span>When that time comes, you will complain bitterly because of your king, whom you yourselves chose, but the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will not listen to your complaints.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_8_19"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.19" class="v9_8_19">19</span>The people paid no attention to Samuel, but said, “No! We want a king, </span><span class="v9_8_20"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.20" class="v9_8_20">20</span>so that we will be like other nations, with our own king to rule us and to lead us out to war and to fight our battles.” </span><span class="v9_8_21"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.21" class="v9_8_21">21</span>Samuel listened to everything they said and then went and told it to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v9_8_22"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.8.22" class="v9_8_22">22</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> answered, “Do what they want and give them a king.” Then Samuel told all the men of Israel to go back home.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.16: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">cattle; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">young men.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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