1 Samuel 8:10-22 (ESV)<\/p>\n
10 So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking for a king from him. <\/p>\n
11 He said, \u201cThese will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots. (Thank you for your service, boys.<\/em>)<\/p>\n 12 And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. (Get a job, be a man.)<\/em><\/p>\n 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. (Open up thy muffin shops, girls.)<\/em><\/p>\n 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. <\/p>\n 15 He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants. <\/p>\n 16 He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys, and put them to his work. <\/p>\n 17 He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. <\/p>\n 18 And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.\u201d<\/p>\n 19 But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, \u201cNo! But there shall be a king over us, <\/p>\n 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.\u201d <\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n 21 And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord. <\/p>\n 22 And the Lord said to Samuel, \u201cObey their voice and make them a king.\u201d <\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Israel: Oh Yahweh, why can’t we be more like the Akkadians?<\/p>\n God: Oh my chosen, you should really be much more careful what you wish for; but … alrighty then<\/em>, go ahead and vote yourselves into slavery, but don’t say I didn’t warn you, and don’t expect me to listen to your whining after. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 Samuel 8:10-22 (ESV) 10 So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking for a king from him. 11 He said, \u201cThese will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10291,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289\/revisions\/10291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}