1 Samuel 8:4-8
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So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.
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They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have.”
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But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD.
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And the LORD told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
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As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you.
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1 Samuel 8:7
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And the LORD told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
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