<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1007458">1 Samuel</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1007623">Chapter 8</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1007605">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1007646">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>King Saul</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007624">1</a>. AND it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007625">2</a>. Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007626">3</a>. And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007627">4</a>. Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007628">5</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007629">6</a>. But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us.  And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007630">7</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007631">8</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007632">9</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007633">10</a>. And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007634">11</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007635">12</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007636">13</a>. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007637">14</a>. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007638">15</a>. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007639">16</a>. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007640">17</a>. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007641">18</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007642">19</a>. Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007643">20</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007644">21</a>. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1007645">22</a>. 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.</li>
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