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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.

Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.

And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.

And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.

Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.

And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.

And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:

And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.

And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.

And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.

And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.

And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels" necks.