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 8:10

8:10 So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.

1 Samuel 8:19

8:19 But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning. ²  Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us!

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

² tn Heb “and the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel.”