Popular Bible Verses from 1 Samuel 8

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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.

They are doing the same thing to you that they have done to me,  since the day I brought them out of Egypt until this day, abandoning me and worshipping other gods.

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.’  When they said, ‘Give us a king to judge us,’ Samuel considered their demand wrong, so he prayed to the LORD.

The people refused to listen to Samuel. ‘No! ’ they said. ‘We must have a king over us.