This will be the manner of the king that shall reign
over you; he will take your sons, and appoint them unto
him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen, and they
shall run before his chariots.

And he will appoint them unto him for captains of
thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will set some to
plough his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make
his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

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

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 a tenth of your seed, and of your vine
yards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

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

He will take a tenth of your flocks; and ye shall be his
servants.

And ye shall call out in that day because of your king
which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not
answer you in that day.

All of which came to pass in that ancient day,
and they did cry out to Samuel, saying: " Pray for
thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die
not; for we have added unto all our sins this evil,
to ask us a king." And after Saul and David
came Rehoboam, who " answered the people roughly,
saying: My father made your yoke heavy, but I
will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with
whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions."

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