2. The elder son was named Joel and the younger one Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba.
3. But they did not follow their father's example; they were interested only in making money, so they accepted bribes and did not decide cases honestly.
4. Then all the leaders of Israel met together, went to Samuel in Ramah,
5. and said to him, “Look, you are getting old and your sons don't follow your example. So then, appoint a king to rule over us, so that we will have a king, as other countries have.”
6. Samuel was displeased with their request for a king; so he prayed to the Lord,
7. and the Lord said, “Listen to everything the people say to you. You are not the one they have rejected; I am the one they have rejected as their king.
8. Ever since I brought them out of Egypt, they have turned away from me and worshipped other gods; and now they are doing to you what they have always done to me.
9. So then, listen to them, but give them strict warnings and explain how their kings will treat them.”
10. Samuel told the people who were asking him for a king everything that the Lord had said to him.
11. “This is how your king will treat you,” Samuel explained. “He will make soldiers of your sons; some of them will serve in his war chariots, others in his cavalry, and others will run before his chariots.
12. He will make some of them officers in charge of a thousand men, and others in charge of fifty men. Your sons will have to plough his fields, harvest his crops, and make his weapons and the equipment for his chariots.
13. Your daughters will have to make perfumes for him and work as his cooks and his bakers.
14. He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his officials.
15. He will take a tenth of your corn and of your grapes for his court officers and other officials.