1 Samuel 8:22

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And the Lord said to Samuel, “Hearken to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel then said to the men of Israel, “Go every man to his city.”

Cross References

Hosea 13:11

I have given you kings in my anger, and I have taken them away in my wrath.

1 Samuel 8:7

And the Lord said to Samuel, “Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.

1 Samuel 9:1

There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth;