²³ If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will also go to their ^(A)place in peace.”

⁶ But the thing ^(A)displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel ^(B)prayed to the Lord. ⁷ And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for ^(C)they have not rejected you, but ^(D)they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.

¹⁸ Both you and these people who are with you will surely wear yourselves out. For this thing is too much for you; ^(A)you are not able to perform it by yourself.

²² So the Lord said to Samuel, ^(A)“Heed their voice, and make them a king.”

And Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Every man go to his city.”

^3 (A)But the people answered, “You shall not go out! For if we flee away, they will not care about us; nor if half of us die, will they care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us now. For you are now more help to us in the city.”

¹⁰ Therefore she said to Abraham, ^(A)“Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac.” ¹¹ And the matter was very ^[a]displeasing in Abraham’s sight ^(B)because of his son.

¹² But God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be displeasing in your sight because of the lad or because of your bondwoman. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for ^(C)in Isaac your seed shall be called.

³³ So the Lord went His way as soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.

²⁴ Nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for you. ²⁵ And being confident of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy of faith,

² And I went up ^[a]by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but ^(A)privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means ^(B)I might run, or had run, in vain.

² Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, they determined that ^(A)Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question.