1 Samuel 8:10-18 - Samuel's Warning Against Kings

¹⁰ And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked a king of him, ¹¹ and he said, "This shall be the duty of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons and put them to his chariots and make his horsemen of them and they must run before his chariot, ¹² and will make him captains of them over thousands and over fifties, and set them to ear his ground, and to gather in his harvest, and to make instruments of war and apparel for his chariots. ¹³ And he will take your daughters and make them the dressers of his ointments, and his cooks and bakers. ¹⁴ And he shall take the best of your fields, and of your vineyards and of your olive trees, and give them to his servants. ¹⁵ And he shall take the tenth of your seed and of your vines, and give it to his lords, and to his servants. ¹⁶ And he shall take the best of your menservants and maidservants and young men, and of your asses, and do his work with them. ¹⁷ And he shall take the tenth of your sheep, and ye shall be his servants. ¹⁸ And when ye cry out at that time upon your king which ye shall have chosen you, the LORD will not hear you at that day."