World English Bible
1 Samuel 8:7
“Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 8
and they said to him, "Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.
Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who shall reign over them.
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