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1 Samuel 8 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

1Sa 8:1

1Sa 8:1It happened, when Shemu'el was old, that he made his sons judges over Yisra'el.

1Sa 8:2

1Sa 8:2Now the name of his firstborn was Yo'el; and the name of his second, Aviyah: they were judges in Be'er-Sheva.

1Sa 8:3

1Sa 8:3His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

1Sa 8:4

1Sa 8:4Then all the Zakenim of Yisra'el gathered themselves together, and came to Shemu'el to Ramah;

1Sa 8:5

1Sa 8:5and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

1Sa 8:6

1Sa 8:6But the thing displeased Shemu'el, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. Shemu'el prayed to the LORD.

1Sa 8:7

1Sa 8:7The LORD said to Shemu'el, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

1Sa 8:8

1Sa 8:8According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Mitzrayim even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.

1Sa 8:9

1Sa 8:9Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who shall reign over them.

Warning concerning a King

1Sa 8:10

1Sa 8:10Shemu'el told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked of him a king.

1Sa 8:11

1Sa 8:11He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

1Sa 8:12

1Sa 8:12and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will set some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

1Sa 8:13

1Sa 8:13He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

1Sa 8:14

1Sa 8:14He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

1Sa 8:15

1Sa 8:15He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

1Sa 8:16

1Sa 8:16He will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

1Sa 8:17

1Sa 8:17He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.

1Sa 8:18

1Sa 8:18You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not answer you in that day.

1Sa 8:19

1Sa 8:19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Shemu'el; and they said, No: but we will have a king over us,

1Sa 8:20

1Sa 8:20that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

1Sa 8:21

1Sa 8:21Shemu'el heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.

1Sa 8:22

1Sa 8:22The LORD said to Shemu'el, Listen to their voice, and make them a king. Shemu'el said to the men of Yisra'el, Go you every man to his city.
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