World English Bible
"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.""
— 1 Samuel 8:9, World English Bible
“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.”
“Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit thou shalt protest solemnly unto them, and shalt show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. ”
“So now do as they say. But you must warn them and make them aware of the policies of the king who will rule over them.””
“Now, therefore, hearken to their voice: but yet testify to them, and foretell them the right of the king, that shall reign over them.”
“Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler.”
“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.”
But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
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.
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.
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."
Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of him a king.
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;
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.