1╙┴ 8:1 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ╙AMUEL WAS OLD, THAT HE MADE HIS SONS JUDGES OVER ╔SRAEL.
1╙┴ 8:2 ╬OW THE NAME OF HIS FIRSTBORN WAS ╩OEL; AND THE NAME OF HIS SECOND, ┴BIAH: THEY WERE JUDGES IN ┬EERSHEBA.
1╙┴ 8:3 ┴ND HIS SONS WALKED NOT IN HIS WAYS, BUT TURNED ASIDE AFTER LUCRE, AND TOOK BRIBES, AND PERVERTED JUDGMENT.
1╙┴ 8:4 ╘HEN ALL THE ELDERS OF ╔SRAEL GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER, AND CAME TO ╙AMUEL UNTO ╥AMAH,
1╙┴ 8:5 ┴ND SAID UNTO HIM, ┬EHOLD, THOU ART OLD, AND THY SONS WALK NOT IN THY WAYS: NOW MAKE US A KING TO JUDGE US LIKE ALL THE NATIONS.
1╙┴ 8:6 ┬UT THE THING DISPLEASED ╙AMUEL, WHEN THEY SAID, ╟IVE US A KING TO JUDGE US. ┴ND ╙AMUEL PRAYED UNTO THE ╠╧╥─.
1╙┴ 8:7 ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ SAID UNTO ╙AMUEL, ╚EARKEN 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 ╔ SHOULD NOT REIGN OVER THEM.
1╙┴ 8:8 ┴CCORDING TO ALL THE WORKS WHICH THEY HAVE DONE SINCE THE DAY THAT ╔ BROUGHT THEM UP OUT OF ┼GYPT EVEN UNTO THIS DAY, WHEREWITH THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND SERVED OTHER GODS, SO DO THEY ALSO UNTO THEE.
1╙┴ 8:9 ╬OW THEREFORE HEARKEN UNTO THEIR VOICE: HOWBEIT YET PROTEST SOLEMNLY UNTO THEM, AND SHEW THEM THE MANNER OF THE KING THAT SHALL REIGN OVER THEM.
1╙┴ 8:10 ┴ND ╙AMUEL TOLD ALL THE WORDS OF THE ╠╧╥─ UNTO THE PEOPLE THAT ASKED OF HIM A KING.
1╙┴ 8:11 ┴ND HE SAID, ╘HIS WILL BE THE MANNER OF THE KING THAT SHALL REIGN OVER YOU: ╚E WILL TAKE YOUR SONS, AND APPOINT THEM FOR HIMSELF, FOR HIS CHARIOTS, AND TO BE HIS HORSEMEN; AND SOME SHALL RUN BEFORE HIS CHARIOTS.
1╙┴ 8:12 ┴ND 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.
1╙┴ 8:13 ┴ND HE WILL TAKE YOUR DAUGHTERS TO BE CONFECTIONARIES, AND TO BE COOKS, AND TO BE BAKERS.
1╙┴ 8:14 ┴ND HE WILL TAKE YOUR FIELDS, AND YOUR VINEYARDS, AND YOUR OLIVEYA DS, EVEN THE BEST OF THEM, AND GIVE THEM TO HIS SERVANTS.
1╙┴ 8:15 ┴ND HE WILL TAKE THE TENTH OF YOUR SEED, AND OF YOUR VINEYARDS, AND GIVE TO HIS OFFICERS, AND TO HIS SERVANTS.
1╙┴ 8:16 ┴ND HE WILL TAKE YOUR MENSERVANTS, AND YOUR MAIDSERVANTS, AND YOUR GOODLIEST YOUNG MEN, AND YOUR ASSES, AND PUT THEM TO HIS WORK.
1╙┴ 8:17 ╚E WILL TAKE THE TENTH OF YOUR SHEEP: AND YE SHALL BE HIS SERVANTS.
1╙┴ 8:18 ┴ND YE SHALL CRY OUT IN THAT DAY BECAUSE OF YOUR KING WHICH YE SHALL HAVE CHOSEN YOU; AND THE ╠╧╥─ WILL NOT HEAR YOU IN THAT DAY.
1╙┴ 8:19 ╬EVERTHELESS THE PEOPLE REFUSED TO OBEY THE VOICE OF ╙AMUEL; AND THEY SAID, ╬AY; BUT WE WILL HAVE A KING OVER US;
1╙┴ 8:20 ╘HAT WE ALSO MAY BE LIKE ALL THE NATIONS; AND THAT OUR KING MAY JUDGE US, AND GO OUT BEFORE US, AND FIGHT OUR BATTLES.
1╙┴ 8:21 ┴ND ╙AMUEL HEARD ALL THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE, AND HE REHEARSED THEM IN THE EARS OF THE ╠╧╥─.
1╙┴ 8:22 ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ SAID TO ╙AMUEL, ╚EARKEN UNTO THEIR VOICE, AND MAKE THEM A KING. ┴ND ╙AMUEL SAID UNTO THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL, ╟O YE EVERY MAN UNTO HIS CITY.
