撒母耳记上 8
1 撒母耳年纪老迈，就立他儿子作以色列的士师。
It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
2 长子名叫约珥，次子名叫亚比亚；他们在别是巴作士师。
Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beersheba.
3 他儿子不行他的道，贪图财利，收受贿赂，屈枉正直。
His sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside toward dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
4 以色列的长老都聚集，来到拉玛见撒母耳，
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;
5 对他说：“你年纪老迈了，你儿子不行你的道。现在求你为我们立一个王治理我们，像列国一样。”
and they said to him, "Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations."
6 撒母耳不喜悦他们说“立一个王治理我们”，他就祷告耶和华。
But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." Samuel prayed to Jehovah.
7 耶和华对撒母耳说：“百姓向你说的一切话，你只管依从；因为他们不是厌弃你，乃是厌弃我，不要我作他们的王。
Jehovah 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.
8 自从我领他们出埃及到如今，他们常常离弃我，事奉别神。现在他们向你所行的，是照他们素来所行的。
According to all the works which they have done to me 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.
9 故此你要依从他们的话，只是当警戒他们，告诉他们将来那王怎样管辖他们。”
Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who shall reign over them."
10 撒母耳将耶和华的话都传给求他立王的百姓，说：
Samuel told all the words of Jehovah to the people who asked of him a king.
11 “管辖你们的王必这样行：他必派你们的儿子为他赶车、跟马，奔走在车前；
He said, "This will be the way 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.
12 又派他们作千夫长、五十夫长，为他耕种田地，收割庄稼，打造军器和车上的器械；
And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands, and commanders of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and gather his vintage, and to make his implements of war, and the equipment of his chariots.
13 必取你们的女儿为他制造香膏，做饭烤饼；
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14 也必取你们最好的田地、葡萄园、橄榄园赐给他的臣仆。
He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.
15 你们的粮食和葡萄园所出的，他必取十分之一给他的太监和臣仆；
He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16 又必取你们的仆人婢女，健壮的少年人和你们的驴，供他的差役。
He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best cattle, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
17 你们的羊群他必取十分之一，你们也必作他的仆人。
He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
18 那时你们必因所选的王哀求耶和华，耶和华却不应允你们。”
You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen for yourselves, and Jehovah will not answer you in that day."
19 百姓竟不肯听撒母耳的话，说：“不然！我们定要一个王治理我们，
But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No; but we will have a king over us,
20 使我们像列国一样，有王治理我们，统领我们，为我们争战。”
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."
21 撒母耳听见百姓这一切话，就将这话陈明在耶和华面前。
Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them in the hearing of Jehovah.
22 耶和华对撒母耳说：“你只管依从他们的话，为他们立王。”撒母耳对以色列人说：“你们各归各城去吧！”
Jehovah 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."
