Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

1 Kings 8:15-22 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

15. Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give his eunuchs and servants.

16. Your servants also and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses he will take away, and put them to his work.

17. Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.

18. And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.

19. But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, and they said: Nay: but there shall be a king over us.

20. And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and tight our battles for us.

21. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.

22. And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel: Let every man go to his city.