13. Your daughters will have to make perfume or do his cooking and baking.
14. The king will take your best fields, as well as your vineyards and olive orchards, and give them to his own officials.
15. He will also take a tenth of your grain and grapes and give it to his officers and officials.
16. The king will take your slaves and your best young men and your donkeys and make them do his work.
17. He will also take a tenth of your sheep and goats. You will become the king's slaves,
18. and you will finally cry out for the Lord to save you from the king you wanted. But the Lord won't answer your prayers.
19-20. The people would not listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want to be like other nations. We want a king to rule us and lead us in battle.”
21. Samuel listened to them and then told the Lord exactly what they had said.
22. “Do what they want,” the Lord answered. “Give them a king.”Samuel told the people to go back to their homes.