THEY HAVE NOT REJECTED THEE BUT THEY HAVE REJECTED ME

1 SAMUEL 8:4-20

THEN ALL 

THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL 

GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER, 

AND CAME TO SAMUEL UNTO RAMAH,
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.
BUT THE THING 

DISPLEASED SAMUEL, 

WHEN THEY SAID, 

GIVE US A KING TO JUDGE US. 

AND SAMUEL PRAYED 

UNTO THE LORD.
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.
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.
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. 

AND SAMUEL TOLD ALL 

THE WORDS OF THE LORD

 UNTO THE PEOPLE 

THAT ASKED OF HIM A KING.
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.
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.
AND HE WILL TAKE YOUR 

DAUGHTERS TO BE CONFECTIONARIES, 

AND TO BE COOKS, AND TO BE BAKERS.
AND HE WILL TAKE YOUR FIELDS, 

AND YOUR VINEYARDS, 

AND YOUR OLIVEYARDS, 

EVEN THE BEST OF THEM, 

AND GIVE THEM TO HIS SERVANTS.
AND HE WILL TAKE 

THE TENTH OF YOUR SEED, 

AND OF YOUR VINEYARDS, 

AND GIVE TO HIS OFFICERS, 

AND TO HIS SERVANTS.
AND HE WILL TAKE YOUR 

MENSERVANTS, AND YOUR 

MAIDSERVANTS, AND 

YOUR GOODLIEST YOUNG MEN, 

AND YOUR ASSES, 

AND PUT THEM TO HIS WORK.
HE WILL TAKE THE 

TENTH OF YOUR SHEEP: 

AND YE SHALL BE HIS SERVANTS.
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.
NEVERTHELESS THE PEOPLE 

REFUSED TO OBEY 

THE VOICE OF SAMUEL; 

AND THEY SAID, NAY; 

BUT WE WILL HAVE A KING OVER US;
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.

 

LOVE