American Standard Version

1 Samuel 8:14-20 American Standard Version (ASV)

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 men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

17. He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants.

18. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.

19. But the people refused to hearken unto 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.