1 Samuel 8:6-7

8:6 But this request displeased Samuel, for 1  they said, “Give us a king to lead us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord. 8:7 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do everything the people request of you. 2  For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.

1 Samuel 8:22

8:22 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do as they say 3  and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Each of you go back to his own city.”

1 tn Heb “when.”

2 tn Heb “Listen to the voice of the people, to all which they say to you.”

3 tn Heb “listen to their voice.”