So all the elders of Israel gathered together and went to Samuel at Ramah.(A) They 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.”(B)

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

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