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1 Samuel 8:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Samuel 8:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 and said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.”(A) 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to govern us.” Samuel prayed to the Lord,(B) 7 and the Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.(C)
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