1 Samuel 8:7

8:7 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do everything the people request of you. 1  For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.

1 Samuel 15:23

15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and presumption is like the evil of idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

he has rejected you as 2  king.”

1 Samuel 15:26

15:26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel!”

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

2 tn Or “from [being].”