1 Samuel 8:6-7

8:6 But this request displeased Samuel, for ¹  they said, “Give us a king to lead us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord. 8:7 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do everything the people request of you. ²  For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.

1 Samuel 8:22

8:22 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do as they say ³  and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Each of you go back to his own city.”

[8:6]  ¹ tn Heb “when.”

[8:7]  ² tn Heb “Listen to the voice of the people, to all which they say to you.”

[8:22]  ³ tn Heb “listen to their voice.”