1 Samuel 8:16-22 ▼

16 And your menservants and your maidservants, and the best of your young men and your donkeys, he takes, and has prepared for his own work;

17 he tithes your flock, and you are for servants to him.

18 And you have cried out in that day because of the king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and YHWH does not answer you in that day.”

19 And the people refuse to listen to the voice of Samuel, and say, “No, but a king is over us,

20 and we have been, even we, like all the nations; and our king has judged us, and gone out before us, and fought our battles.”

21 And Samuel hears all the words of the people, and speaks them in the ears of YHWH;

22 and YHWH says to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and you have caused a king to reign over them.” And Samuel says to the men of Israel, “Go, each man, to his city.”