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1When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
2Now the name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.
3His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
4Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.
5They said to him, “See, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
6But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.”
Samuel prayed to YHWH.
7YHWH 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 as the king over them.
8According 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.
9Now therefore, listen to their voice. However, you must warn-warn them and show them the way of the king who will reign over them.”
10Samuel told all YHWH’s words to the people who asked him for a king.
11He said, “This will be the rights of the king who will reign over y’all: he will take y’all’s sons and appoint them as his servants among his chariots and horsemen, and they will run before his chariots.
12He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest; and to make his instruments of war and the instruments of his chariots.
13He will take y’all’s daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
14He will take the best of y’all’s fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his servants.
15He will take one tenth of y’all’s seed and vineyards, and give it to his officers and to his servants.
16He will take y’all’s male servants, y’all’s female servants, y’all’s best young men, and y’all’s donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
17He will take one tenth of y’all’s flocks, and y’all will become his servants.
18Y’all will cry out in that day because of your* king whom y’all will have chosen for yourselves*, but YHWH will not answer y’all in that day.”
19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us,
20so that we also may be like all the nations. Our king will judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”
21Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them in the ears of YHWH.
22YHWH said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice and appoint a king for them.”
Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Each of y’all, go to your own city.”