NITHYAM SONGS1 Samuel 8
World English Bible (WEB) • 22 verses
1When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
RelatedDeuteronomy 16:18-19 · 1 Timothy 5:21 · Judges 12:14 · 2 Chronicles 19:5-6 · Judges 8:22-23 · Nehemiah 7:2
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.
RelatedDeuteronomy 16:19 · Psalms 15:5 · 1 Timothy 6:10 · Exodus 18:21 · Exodus 23:8 · 1 Timothy 3:3
4Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.
5They 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.”
RelatedDeuteronomy 17:14-15 · 1 Samuel 8:19-20 · Hosea 13:10-11 · 1 Samuel 8:6-8 · 1 Samuel 12:17 · Numbers 23:9
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.”
Related1 Samuel 10:25 · 1 Samuel 8:11-18 · Ezekiel 46:18 · Ezekiel 3:18 · 1 Samuel 2:13 · Ezekiel 45:7-8
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.
Related1 Samuel 14:52 · 1 Samuel 10:25 · Deuteronomy 17:14-20 · 2 Samuel 15:1 · 1 Kings 10:26 · 1 Kings 18:46
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.
Related2 Chronicles 32:28-29 · 1 Kings 4:22-23 · 1 Chronicles 27:1-22 · 1 Kings 4:27-28 · 1 Kings 4:7 · 1 Samuel 22:7
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.
15He will take one tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers and to his servants.
16He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
17He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.
18You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and the LORD will not answer you 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,
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.”
Related1 Samuel 8:5 · Romans 12:12 · Leviticus 20:24-26 · 1 Peter 2:9 · Philippians 3:20 · Numbers 23:9
21Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
RelatedJudges 11:11
22The LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go to your own city.”
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.