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So all the elders of Israel gathered together and approached Samuel at Ramah.

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They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons don’t follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead[a] us, just like all the other nations have.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 8:5 tn Heb “judge” (also in v. 6).