1 Samuel 8:10-12

New English Translation

¹⁰ So Samuel spoke all the Lord’s words to the people who were asking him for a king. ¹¹ He said, “Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot. ¹² He will appoint for himself leaders of thousands and leaders of fifties,^[a] as well as those who plow his ground, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and his chariot equipment.