1 Samuel 8:10

THE MESSAGE

So Samuel told them, delivered God 's warning to the people who were asking him to give them a king. He said, "This is the way the kind of king you're talking about operates. He'll take your sons and make soldiers of them—chariotry, cavalry, infantry, regimented in battalions and squadrons. He'll put some to forced labor on his farms, plowing and harvesting, and others to making either weapons of war or chariots in which he can ride in luxury. He'll put your daughters to work as beauticians and waitresses and cooks. He'll conscript your best fields, vineyards, and orchards and hand them over to his special friends. He'll tax your harvests and vintage to support his extensive bureaucracy. Your prize workers and best animals he'll take for his own use. He'll lay a tax on your flocks and you'll end up no better than slaves. The day will come when you will cry in desperation because of this king you so much want for yourselves. But don't expect God to answer."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Samuel told all the Lord’s words to the people who were asking him for a king.

Hebrew Names Version
Shemu'el told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked of him a king.

King James Version
And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king.

Lexham English Bible
So Samuel spoke all the words of Yahweh to the people who were requesting a king from him.

English Standard Version
So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking for a king from him.

New Century Version
So Samuel told those who had asked him for a king what the Lord had said.

New English Translation
So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.

Amplified Bible
So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.

New American Standard Bible
So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who had asked him for a king.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So Samuel told all the wordes of the Lord vnto the people that asked a King of him.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Samuel spoke all the words of Yahweh to the people who had asked of him a king.

Contemporary English Version
Samuel told the people who were asking for a king what the Lord had said:

Complete Jewish Bible
Sh'mu'el reported everything Adonai had said to the people asking him for a king.

Darby Translation
And Samuel spoke all the words of Jehovah to the people that asked of him a king.

Easy-to-Read Version
Those people asked for a king. So Samuel told them everything the Lord said.

George Lamsa Translation
And Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked of him a king.

Good News Translation
Samuel told the people who were asking him for a king everything that the Lord had said to him.

Literal Translation
And Samuel spoke all Jehovah's Words to the people who were asking a king from him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Samuel tolde all the wordes of the LORDE vnto ye people, that requyred a kinge of him.

American Standard Version
And Samuel told all the words of Jehovah unto the people that asked of him a king.

Bible in Basic English
And Samuel said all these words of the Lord to the people who were desiring a king.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Samuel tolde all the wordes of the Lorde vnto the people that asked a king of him,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.

King James Version (1611)
And Samuel told all the words of the Lord vnto the people, that asked of him a King.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Samuel spoke every word of the Lord to the people who asked of him a king.

English Revised Version
And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.

Berean Standard Bible
So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Samuel seide alle the wordis of the Lord to the puple, that hadde axid of him a king; and he seide,

Young's Literal Translation
And Samuel speaketh all the words of Jehovah unto the people who are asking from him a king,

Update Bible Version
And Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people that asked of him a king.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people that asked of him a king.

World English Bible
Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of him a king.

New King James Version
So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked him for a king.

New Living Translation
So Samuel passed on the Lord 's warning to the people who were asking him for a king.

New Life Bible
So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who had asked him for a king.

New Revised Standard
So Samuel reported all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then Samuel spake all the words of Yahweh unto the people, who were asking of him, a king.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that had desired a king of him,

Revised Standard Version
So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking a king from him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who had asked of him a king.

Contextual Overview

⁴Fed up, all the elders of Israel got together and confronted Samuel at Ramah. They presented their case: "Look, you're an old man, and your sons aren't following in your footsteps. Here's what we want you to do: Appoint a king to rule us, just like everybody else." ⁶ When Samuel heard their demand—"Give us a king to rule us!"—he was crushed. How awful! Samuel prayed to God . ⁷ God answered Samuel, "Go ahead and do what they're asking. They are not rejecting you. They've rejected me as their King. From the day I brought them out of Egypt until this very day they've been behaving like this, leaving me for other gods. And now they're doing it to you. So let them have their own way. But warn them of what they're in for. Tell them the way kings operate, just what they're likely to get from a king." ¹⁰So Samuel told them, delivered God 's warning to the people who were asking him to give them a king. He said, "This is the way the kind of king you're talking about operates. He'll take your sons and make soldiers of them—chariotry, cavalry, infantry, regimented in battalions and squadrons. He'll put some to forced labor on his farms, plowing and harvesting, and others to making either weapons of war or chariots in which he can ride in luxury. He'll put your daughters to work as beauticians and waitresses and cooks. He'll conscript your best fields, vineyards, and orchards and hand them over to his special friends. He'll tax your harvests and vintage to support his extensive bureaucracy. Your prize workers and best animals he'll take for his own use. He'll lay a tax on your flocks and you'll end up no better than slaves. The day will come when you will cry in desperation because of this king you so much want for yourselves. But don't expect God to answer." ¹⁹But the people wouldn't listen to Samuel. "No!" they said. "We will have a king to rule us! Then we'll be just like all the other nations. Our king will rule us and lead us and fight our battles." ²¹Samuel took in what they said and rehearsed it with God . God told Samuel, "Do what they say. Make them a king." Then Samuel dismissed the men of Israel: "Go home, each of you to your own city."

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Reciprocal: Jeremiah 43:1 - all the words

Cross-References

Genesis 8:12
He waited another seven days and sent the dove out a third time. This time it didn't come back.

Psalms 40:1
A David Psalm I waited and waited and waited for God . At last he looked; finally he listened. He lifted me out of the ditch, pulled me from deep mud. He stood me up on a solid rock to make sure I wouldn't slip. He taught me how to sing the latest God-song, a praise-song to our God. More and more people are seeing this: they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to God .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto them,.... How he considered this request of theirs as a rejection of him as their king, and that it was acting the same ungrateful part they had always done; and since they were so importunate to have it granted, it should be done; but that he was ordered to lay before them all the inconveniences that would attend it, and the evils that would follow upon it unto them:

that asked of him a king; which is observed, not to distinguish a part of them from the rest; for this was an united request of the people.