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1 Samuel 8:4-7
Christian Standard Bible
1 Samuel 8:4-7
Christian Standard Bible
4 So all the elders of Israel gathered together and went to Samuel at Ramah.(A) 5 They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Therefore, appoint a king to judge us the same as all the other nations have.”(B)
6 When they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” Samuel considered their demand wrong, so he prayed to the Lord. 7 But the Lord told him, “Listen to the people and everything they say to you. They have not rejected you; they have rejected me as their king.(C)
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