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them
to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments
of his chariots.
13
And he will take your daughters
to be
confectionaries, and
to be
cooks, and
to be
bakers.
14
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards,
even
the best
of
them,
and give
them
to his servants.
15
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards,
and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16
And he will take your menservants, and your
maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put
them
to his work.
17
He will
take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
18
And ye shall cry out in that day because
of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the L
ORD
will not hear you in that day.
19
Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will
have a king over us;
20
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.
21
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and
he rehearsed them in the ears of the L
ORD
.
22
And the L
ORD
said to Samuel, Hearken unto their
voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his
city.
CHAPTER SAMUEL 9
Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name
was
Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the
son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
2
And he had a son,
whose name
was
Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and
there was
not among the children
of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward
he was
higher than any of the
people.
3
And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now
one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.
4
And he passed through mount Ephraim,
and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found
them
not: then they passed through the
land of Shalim, and
there they were
not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they
found
them
not.
5
And
when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that
was
with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave
caring
for the asses, and take thought for
us.
6
And he said unto him, Behold now,
there is
in this city a man of God, and
he is
an honourable
man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our
way that we should go.
7
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?
8
And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the
fourth part of a shekel of silver:
that
will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
9
(Beforetime
in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for
he that is
now
called
a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
10
Then said Saul to his servant, Well
said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God
was.
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