1 Samuel 8:7
English Standard Version
7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, (A)for they have not rejected you, (B)but they have rejected me from being king over them.
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1 Samuel 8:18-19
English Standard Version
18 And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, (A)but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”
The Lord Grants Israel's Request
19 But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us,
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Psalm 106:14-15
English Standard Version
14 But they had (A)a wanton craving in the wilderness,
and (B)put God to the test in the desert;
15 he (C)gave them what they asked,
but sent (D)a wasting disease among them.
Acts 13:21
English Standard Version
21 Then (A)they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul (B)the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
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