📖WEB · 1 Samuel 8:18
What does 1 Samuel 8:18 mean?
"You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”"
— 1 Samuel 8:18 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
He will take one tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his servants.
He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.
You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,
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.”
Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.
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