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The LORD said to Samuel, ‘Listen to everything that the people are saying to you. I myself should be their king. So it is not you that they refuse to accept. It is me that they do not accept to be their king.

They are doing what they have always done. Since I brought them out of Egypt they have continued to turn away from me. They have chosen to serve other gods. Now they are turning against you in the same way.

They said to him, ‘You are old. Your sons do not live in the way that you have done. All the other nations have kings to lead them. So choose a king to rule over us, like they have.’ When Israel's leaders said, ‘Choose a king who will lead us,’ Samuel was not happy. So he prayed to the LORD.

But the people would not listen to Samuel. They said, ‘No! We want a king to rule us.