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they were judges in Beer-sheba. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Yet his sons did not follow in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>and said to him, “You are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to govern us.” Samuel prayed to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Just as they have done to me,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-7378a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Now then, listen to their voice; only—you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>So Samuel reported all the words of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> to the people who were asking him for a king. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his courtiers. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>He will take your male and female slaves, and the best of your cattle<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-7386b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> and donkeys, and put them to his work. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will not answer you in that day.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Israel’s Request for a King Granted</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they said, “No! but we are determined to have a king over us, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>so that we also may be like other nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>When Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice and set a king over them.” Samuel then said to the people of Israel, “Each of you return home.”</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Samuel 8:8">1 Samuel 8:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb lacks <i>to me</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Samuel 8:16">1 Samuel 8:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>young men</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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