June
7
1
Samuel 7, 8
1Sa
7:1 The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of
Yahweh, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and
sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yahweh.
1Sa
7:2 It happened, from the day that the ark abode in Kiriath Jearim,
that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of
Israel lamented after Yahweh.
1Sa
7:3 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do
return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods
and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh,
and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the
Philistines.
1Sa
7:4 Then the children of Israel did put away the Baals and the
Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
1Sa
7:5 Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray
for you to Yahweh."
1Sa
7:6 They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it
out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, "We
have sinned against Yahweh." Samuel judged the children of
Israel in Mizpah.
1Sa
7:7 When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were
gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up
against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were
afraid of the Philistines.
1Sa
7:8 The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don't cease to cry
to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the
Philistines."
1Sa
7:9 Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt
offering to Yahweh: and Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh
answered him.
1Sa
7:10 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines
drew near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great
thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they
were struck down before Israel.
1Sa
7:11 The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the
Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.
1Sa
7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen,
and called its name Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto has Yahweh helped us.
1Sa
7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more within
the border of Israel: and the hand of Yahweh was against the
Philistines all the days of Samuel.
1Sa
7:14 The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were
restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and its border did
Israel deliver out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace
between Israel and the Amorites.
1Sa
7:15 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
1Sa
7:16 He went from year to year in circuit to Bethel and Gilgal, and
Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
1Sa
7:17 His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he
judged Israel: and he built there an altar to Yahweh.
1Sa
8:1 It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges
over Israel.
1Sa
8:2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his
second, Abijah: they were judges in Beersheba.
1Sa
8:3 His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre,
and took bribes, and perverted justice.
1Sa
8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and
came to Samuel to Ramah;
1Sa
8:5 and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't
walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the
nations.
1Sa
8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king
to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
1Sa
8:7 Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all
that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have
rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
1Sa
8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day
that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they
have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.
1Sa
8:9 Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest
solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who
shall reign over them.
1Sa
8:10 Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of
him a king.
1Sa
8:11 He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign
over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his
chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his
chariots;
1Sa
8:12 and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and
captains of fifties; and he will set
some to plow his ground, and to reap his
harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of
his chariots.
1Sa
8:13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks,
and to be bakers.
1Sa
8:14 He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive
groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
1Sa
8:15 He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and
give to his officers, and to his servants.
1Sa
8:16 He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and
your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
1Sa
8:17 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his
servants.
1Sa
8:18 You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you
shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.
1Sa
8:19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and
they said, No: but we will have a king over us,
1Sa
8:20 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.
1Sa
8:21 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them
in the ears of Yahweh.
1Sa
8:22 Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a
king. Samuel said to the men of Israel, Every man go to his city.