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1 Samuel 8:10

Verse 10 of 22. The 8th of 31 chapters in 1 Samuel, in History.

6But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to the LORD.

7The 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 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 shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who will reign over them.”

10Samuel told all the LORD’s words to the people who asked him for a king.

11He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots and to be his 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 your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.

14He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even your best, and give them to his servants.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.