17. “A tenth of your sheep he is going to take, and you are to be his servants.
18. “And you shall cry out in that day because of your sovereign whom you have chosen for yourselves, but יהוה is not going to answer you in that day.”
19. However, the people refused to listen to the voice of Shemu’ĕl, and said, “No, but let a sovereign be over us.
20. Then we shall be, we also, like all the nations, and our sovereign shall rule us and go out before us and fight our battles.”