18. And you will cry out in that day because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”
19. But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, “No! But surely a king will be over us!
20. So that we also will be like all the nations! And so that our king will govern us, and will go out before us, and will fight our battles.”
21. And after Samuel heard all the words of the people, he spoke them in the hearing of the Lord.
22. And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey their voice, and make for them a king.”So Samuel said to Israel’s fighting men, “Go every man to his city.”