1 Samuel 8:4-7 (New International Version)

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1 Samuel 8:4-7

New International Version (NIV)

So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead[a] us, such as all the other nations have.”

But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord. 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.

Footnotes:

  1. 1 Samuel 8:5 Traditionally judge; also in verses 6 and 20
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