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1 Samuel 8:6-8

8:6 But this request displeased Samuel, for¹ 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. 8:8 Just as they have done³ from the day that I brought them up from Egypt until this very day, they have rejected me and have served other gods. This is what they are also doing to you.

1 Samuel 8:19-20

Context

8:19 But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning.⁴ Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us! 8:20 We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us⁵ and fight our battles.”

¹tn Heb “when.”

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

³tn Heb “according to all the deeds which they have done.”

⁴tn Heb “and the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel.”

⁵tn Heb “and go out before us.”

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