17. He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his servants.
18. And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in that day.”
19. Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, 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 repeated them in the hearing of the Lord.