1 Samuel 8:22

New Century Version

The Lord answered, “You must listen to them. Give them a king.” Then Samuel told the people of Israel, “Go back to your towns.”

Cross References

1 Samuel 8:7

and the Lord told Samuel, “Listen to whatever the people say to you. They have not rejected you. They have rejected me from being their king.

Hosea 13:11

So I gave you a king, but only in anger, and I took him away in my great anger.

1 Samuel 9:1

Kish, son of Abiel from the tribe of Benjamin, was an important man. (Abiel was the son of Zeror, who was the son of Becorath, who was the son of Aphiah of Benjamin.)