MONARCHY

Passages on this topic · 8

• 1 Samuel 8:11

  He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.

• 1 Samuel 8:12

  He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

• 1 Samuel 8:13

  He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.

• 1 Samuel 8:14

  He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.

• 1 Samuel 8:15

  He will take one tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his servants.

• 1 Samuel 8:16

  He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.

• 1 Samuel 8:17

  He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.

• 1 Samuel 8:18

  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.”