1 Samuel 8:7

8:7 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do everything the people request of you. ¹  For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.

1 Samuel 15:23

15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and presumption is like the evil of idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

he has rejected you as ²  king.”

[8:7]  ¹ tn Heb “Listen to the voice of the people, to all which they say to you.”

[15:23]  ² tn Or “from [being].”