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1 Samuel 8:4-7
English Standard Version
1 Samuel 8:4-7
English Standard Version
4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at (A)Ramah 5 and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. (B)Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, (C)for they have not rejected you, (D)but they have rejected me from being king over them.
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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