Popular Bible Verses from 1st Samuel 8

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And the Lord said to Samuel, Hear thou the voice of the people in all things that they speak to thee; for they have not cast away thee, but me, that I reign not upon them.

By all the works that they have done, from the day in which I led them out of Egypt unto this day, as they have forsaken me, and they have served alien gods, so they do also to thee.

And they said to him, Lo! thou hast waxed eld [or old], and thy sons go not in thy ways; ordain thou a king to us, that he deem us, as also all other nations have. And the word displeased in the eyes of Samuel, for they had said, Give thou to us a king, that he deem us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.

Soothly the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, but they said, Nay, for a king shall be on us