1 Samuel 12:10-12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁰ Then they cried to the Lord, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served the Baals and the Astartes; but now rescue us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’ ¹¹ And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak,^[a] and Jephthah, and Samson,^[b] and rescued you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety. ¹² But when you saw that King Nahash of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ though the Lord your God was your king.