1 Samuel 10:19

19 But today you have ^jrejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and ^kyou have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.”

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1 Samuel 8:7
And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.

1 Samuel 8:5
and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

1 Samuel 8:19
But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us,

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