1 Samuel 8:4-7, 19

So the elders of Israel all joined together and came to meet Samuel at Ramah. “Look here,” they told him, “you are old, and your sons do not follow your ways. Choose a king to rule over us like all the other nations.” Samuel thought this was a bad idea when they said, “Give us a king to rule over us,” so he prayed to the Lord about it. “Do what the people tell you,” the Lord said to Samuel, “because it's not you they're rejecting, but me as their king.

But the people refused to listen to what Samuel said. “No!” they insisted. “We want our own king!