New English Translation

1 Samuel 8:13-20 New English Translation (NET)

13. He will take your daughters to be ointment makers, cooks, and bakers.

14. He will take your best fields and vineyards and give them to his own servants.

15. He will demand a tenth of your seed and of the produce of your vineyards and give it to his administrators and his servants.

16. He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.

17. He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants.

18. In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won’t answer you in that day.”

19. But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning. Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us!

20. We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us and fight our battles.”