5. and said to him, “Look, you are getting old and your sons don't follow your example. So then, appoint a king to rule over us, so that we will have a king, as other countries have.”
6. Samuel was displeased with their request for a king; so he prayed to the Lord,
7. and the Lord said, “Listen to everything the people say to you. You are not the one they have rejected; I am the one they have rejected as their king.
8. Ever since I brought them out of Egypt, they have turned away from me and worshipped other gods; and now they are doing to you what they have always done to me.
9. So then, listen to them, but give them strict warnings and explain how their kings will treat them.”
10. Samuel told the people who were asking him for a king everything that the Lord had said to him.