5 And they said to him: 'Behold, you are elderly, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Appoint for us a king, so that he may judge us, just as all the nations have.'
6 And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, for they had said, 'Give us a king to judge us.' And Samuel prayed to the Lord.
7 Then the Lord said to Samuel: 'Listen to the voice of the people in all that they are saying to you. For they have not rejected you, but me, lest I reign over them.
8 In accord with all their works, which they have done from the day when I led them away from Egypt, even to this day: just as they have forsaken me, and served foreign gods, so now they also do to you.
9 Now therefore, hear their voice. Yet truly, testify to them and foretell to them the rights of the king who will reign over them.'
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