New King James Version

1 Samuel 8:5-8 New King James Version (NKJV)

5. and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

6. But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord.

7. And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.

8. According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day—with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also.