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So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. They said to him, “Look, you are old and your sons do not follow in your ways. So then appoint a king for us to judge[a] us, like all the nations. But the matter was displeasing to Samuel[b] when they said, “Give us a king to judge[c] us,” so Samuel prayed to Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 8:5 Or “to rule”
  2. 1 Samuel 8:6 Literally “was evil in the eyes of Samuel”
  3. 1 Samuel 8:6 Or “to rule”