1 Samuel 8:20-22

International Standard Version

²⁰ We, too, will be like all the nations! Our king will govern us and go out before us to fight our battles.”

²¹ So Samuel listened to all the words of the people, and he repeated them directly to^[a] the Lord. ²² The Lord told Samuel, “Listen to them, and appoint a king for them.”

Then Samuel told the men of Israel, “Each of you go to his own town.”