Liber Primus Samuelis

I Samuelis, chapter 8, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 8 Vulgate

   1 Factum est autem cum senuis set, Samuel posuit filios suos iu dices Israel.
   2 Fuitque nomen filii eius primogeniti Ioel et nomen secundi Abia; iudicabant in Bersabee.
   3 Et non ambulaverunt filii illius in viis eius, sed declinaverunt post avaritiam acceperuntque munera et perverterunt iudicium.
   4 Congregati ergo universi maiores natu Israel venerunt ad Samuel in Rama
   5 dixeruntque ei: "Ecce tu senuisti, et filii tui non ambulant in viis tuis; nunc ergo constitue nobis regem, ut iudicet nos, sicut universae habent nationes".
   6 Displicuitque sermo in oculis Samuelis, eo quod dixissent: "Da nobis regem, ut iudicet nos". Et oravit Samuel ad Dominum.
   7 Dixit autem Dominus ad Samuel: "Audi vocem populi in omnibus, quae loquuntur tibi; non enim te abiecerunt, sed me abiecerunt, ne regnem super eos.
   8 Iuxta omnia opera sua, quae fecerunt a die, qua eduxi eos de Aegypto, usque ad diem hanc, sicut dereliquerunt me et servierunt diis alienis, sic faciunt etiam tibi.
   9 Nunc ergo audi vocem eorum; verumtamen contestare eos et praedic eis ius regis, qui regnaturus est super eos".
   10 Dixit itaque Samuel omnia verba Domini ad populum, qui petierat a se regem,
   11 et ait: "Hoc erit ius regis, qui imperaturus est vobis: Filios vestros tollet et ponet in curribus suis facietque sibi equites, et current ante quadrigas eius;
   12 et constituet sibi tribunos et centuriones et aratores agrorum suorum et messores segetum et fabros armorum et curruum suorum.
   13 Filias quoque vestras faciet sibi unguentarias et focarias et panificas.
   14 Agros quoque vestros et vineas et oliveta optima tollet et dabit servis suis.
   15 Sed et segetes vestras et vinearum reditus addecimabit, ut det eunuchis et famulis suis.
   16 Servos etiam vestros et ancillas et boves vestros optimos et asinos auferet et ponet in opere suo.
   17 Greges vestros addecimabit, vosque eritis ei servi.
   18 Et clamabitis in die illa a facie regis vestri, quem elegistis vobis, et non exaudiet vos Dominus in die illa".
   19 Noluit autem populus audire vocem Samuel, sed dixerunt: "Nequaquam: rex enim erit super nos,
   20 et erimus nos quoque sicut omnes gentes; et iudicabit nos rex noster et egredietur ante nos et pugnabit bella nostra pro nobis".
   21 Et audivit Samuel omnia verba populi et locutus est ea in auribus Domini.
   22 Dixit autem Dominus ad Samuel: "Audi vocem eorum et constitue super eos regem". Et ait Samuel ad viros Israel: "Vadat unusquisque in civitatem suam".

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
   2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
   3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
   4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
   5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
   6 ¶ But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
   7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
   8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
   9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
   10 ¶ And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
   11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
   12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
   13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
   14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
   15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
   16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
   17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
   18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
   19 ¶ Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
   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.
   21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
   22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.