17. He will also take the tenth of your flocks. Then you yourselves will become his slaves.
18. When the day comes and you cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, Adonai will not answer you on that day.”
19. But the people refused to listen to Samuel, and they said, “No! But a king should be over us!
20. So we may become like all the nations—having our king who will judge us, go out before us and fight our battles.”
21. After Samuel heard all the words of the people, he reported them back in the hearing of Adonai.
22. Adonai said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice and appoint a king to reign for them.” So Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Go, each one to his town.”