4. So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.
5. They said to him, ‘You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to leadb us, such as all the other nations have.’
6. But when they said, ‘Give us a king to lead us,’ this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord.
7. And the Lord told him: ‘Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
8. As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you.