The LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.”
Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go to your own city.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Samuel 8:22 in context
1 Samuel 8:19–22
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But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us,
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that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”
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Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
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The LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.”
Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go to your own city.”
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