1It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
1Ko pa se je postaral Samuel, je postavil svoja sinova za sodnika Izraelu.
2Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beersheba.
2Ime prvencu njegovemu je bilo Joel, drugemu pa Abija: ta sta bila sodnika v Bersebi.
3His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
3A sinova njegova nista hodila po njegovi poti, temuč sta se nagnila k lakomnosti in sta jemala darila in zavijala pravico.
4Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;
4Tedaj se zbero vsi starejšine Izraelovi in pridejo k Samuelu v Ramo
5and they said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
5in mu reko: Glej, ti si se postaral, in sinova tvoja ne hodita po tvojem potu: postavi nam torej kralja, da nas sodi, kakor imajo vsi narodi.
6But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
6To pa se je hudo videlo Samuelu, da so rekli: Daj nam kralja, da nas sodi. In Samuel je molil h GOSPODU.
7Yahweh 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.
7A GOSPOD reče Samuelu: Poslušaj ljudstva glas v vsem, kar so ti govorili, zakaj niso zavrgli tebe, ampak mene, da ne bi jim bil kralj.
8According 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.
8Tudi tebi delajo, kakor so vselej delali od dne, ko sem jih peljal iz Egipta, do tega dne, ko so me zapuščali in služili drugim bogovom.
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.”
9Zdaj torej poslušaj njih glas; toda resno jim izpričaj njih napako in jim naznani pravico kralja, ki jim bo kraljeval.
10Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of him a king.
10In Samuel pove ljudstvu, ki je zahtevalo kralja, vse besede GOSPODOVE
11He 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;
11in reče: To bode pravica kralja, ki vam bo kraljeval: Jemal bo sinove vaše in si jih postavi, da so nad njegovimi vozovi in da so mu konjiki, in tekali bodo pred njegovimi vozovi;
12and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
12in si jih postavi za tisočnike in petdesetnike in nekatere, da mu orjejo njive in spravljajo njegove letine ter da mu izgotavljajo bojno orožje in naprave za vozove.
13He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
13Vaše hčere pa bo jemal, da mu bodo mazilarice, kuharice in kruharice.
14He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.
14Tudi bo jemal vaše najboljše njive, vinograde in oljske vrtove ter jih dajal svojim hlapcem.
15He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
15Desetinil bo tudi vaše setve in vinograde in dajal dvornikom in hlapcem svojim.
16He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
16In bo jemal vaše hlapce in dekle in najlepše mladeniče in osle vaše ter ž njimi opravljal svoje delo.
17He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
17Tudi črede vaše bo desetinil, in vi mu boste morali biti hlapci.
18You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
18In tisti čas boste vpili zaradi kralja svojega, ki ste si ga izvolili, a GOSPOD vas tisti čas ne bo uslišal.
19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,
19Ljudstvo pa se brani poslušati glas Samuelov, in reko: Kratko ne; temuč kralja hočemo imeti,
20that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”
20da bodemo tudi mi kakor vsi drugi narodi ter da nas sodi naš kralj in hodi pred nami in vodi boje naše.
21Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.
21In ko je Samuel slišal vse besede ljudstva, jih je povedal GOSPODU na ušesa.GOSPOD pa veli Samuelu: Poslušaj le njih glas in jim stóri kralja. In Samuel reče Izraelovim možem: Pojdite vsak v mesto svoje!
22Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Every man go to his city.”
22GOSPOD pa veli Samuelu: Poslušaj le njih glas in jim stóri kralja. In Samuel reče Izraelovim možem: Pojdite vsak v mesto svoje!