1 Samuel 8:10-12

New American Standard Bible 1995

Warning concerning a King

¹⁰ So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to ^(A)the people who had asked of him a king. ¹¹ He said, “^(B)This will be the ^[a]procedure of the king who will reign over you: ^(C)he will take your sons and place them for himself in his chariots and among his horsemen and ^(D)they will run before his chariots. ^12 (E)He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and of fifties, and some to ^[b]do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.