^{5 Ref} 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.

^{6 Ref} But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh.

^{7 Ref} 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.

^{8 Ref} 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.