9Now therefore hearken to their voice: but yet testify to them, and foretell them the right of the king, that shall reign over them.


In Context

6 And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they should say: Give us a king, to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.

7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.

8 According to all their works, they have done from the day that I brought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and served strange gods, so do they also unto thee.

9 Now therefore hearken to their voice: but yet testify to them, and foretell them the right of the king, that shall reign over them.

10 Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that had desired a king of him,

11 And said: This will be the right of the king, that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and will make them his horsemen, and his running footmen to run before his chariots,

1 Samuel 8:9 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:9Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:9Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:9Now 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9And now hearken unto their voice; only, testify solemnly unto them, and declare unto them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:9Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit thou shalt protest solemnly unto them, and shalt shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9Now therefore hearken to their voice: yet protest solemnly to them, and show them the manner of the king that will reign over them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9Now 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.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9And now, hearken to their voice; only, surely thou dost certainly protest to them, and hast declared to them the custom of the king who doth reign over them.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:9Now therefore listen to their voice: however, yet protest solemnly to them, and show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.