008:014 He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves,
even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
008:015 He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards,
and give to his officers, and to his servants.
008:016 He will take your male servants, and your female servants,
and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them
to his work.
008:017 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall
be his servants.
008:018 You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall
have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.
008:019 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel;
and they said, No: but we will have a king over us,
008:020 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king
may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
008:021 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed
them in the ears of Yahweh.
008:022 Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a king.
Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go you every man to his city.
009:001 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son
of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son
of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.
009:002 He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man;
and there was not among the children of Israel a better
person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was higher
than any of the people.
009:003 The donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. Kish said
to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with you,
and arise, go seek the donkeys.
009:004 He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed
through the land of Shalishah, but they didn't find them:
then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they
weren't there: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites,
but they didn't find them.
009:005 When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant
who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father
leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us.
009:006 He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God,
and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes
surely to pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can
tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.
009:007 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall
we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels,
and there is not a present to bring to the man of God:
what have we?
009:008 The servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have
in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver:
that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
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