It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed My Commandments. And it grieved Shmuel; and he cried unto YY all night.
Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto YY , and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of YY , in asking you a king.
And Moshe said unto Aharon, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from YY ; the plague is begun.
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O Elohim, the Elohim of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
And ye have this day rejected your Elohim, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before YY by your tribes, and by your thousands.
And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when YY your Elohim was your king.
And all the people said unto Shmuel, Pray for thy servants unto YY thy Elohim, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.