1 Samuel 8:4-10

4So all the elders of Israel gathered together and went to Samuel at Ramah.

5They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Therefore, appoint a king to judge us the same as all the other nations have.”

6When they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” Samuel considered their demand wrong, so he prayed to the Lord.

7But the Lord told him, “Listen to the people and everything they say to you. They have not rejected you; they have rejected me as their king.

8They are doing the same thing to you that they have done to me, since the day I brought them out of Egypt until this day, abandoning me and worshiping other gods.

9Listen to them, but solemnly warn them and tell them about the customary rights of the king who will reign over them.”

10Samuel told all the Lord’s words to the people who were asking him for a king.