⁶ But the thing ^(A)displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel ^(B)prayed to the Lord.

^11 (A)“I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has ^(B)turned back from following Me, ^(C)and has not performed My commandments.” And it ^(D)grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night.

^5 (A)If any of you lacks wisdom, ^(B)let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and ^(C)it will be given to him.

¹⁷ Is today not the ^(A)wheat harvest? ^(B)I will call to the Lord, and He will send thunder and ^(C)rain, that you may perceive and see that ^(D)your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking a king for yourselves.”

¹¹ But they were filled with rage, and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

The Twelve Apostles^(A)

¹² Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in ^(B)prayer to God.

³ So when I heard this thing, ^(A)I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out some of the hair of my head and beard, and sat down ^(B)astonished. ⁴ Then everyone who ^(C)trembled at the words of the God of Israel assembled to me, because of the transgression of those who had been carried away captive, and I sat astonished until the ^(D)evening sacrifice.

⁵ At the evening sacrifice I arose from my fasting; and having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and ^(E)spread out my hands to the Lord my God.

⁴⁶ So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar, put incense on it, and take it quickly to the congregation and make ^[a]atonement for them; ^(A)for wrath has gone out from the Lord. The plague has begun.”

²² Then they ^(A)fell^[a] on their faces, and said, “O God, ^(B)the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and You be angry with all the ^(C)congregation?”