8:6 But this request displeased Samuel, for 2 they said, “Give us a king to lead us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord. 8:7 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do everything the people request of you. 3 For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.
8:19 But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning. 4 Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us! 8:20 We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us 5 and fight our battles.”
1 tn Heb “judge” (also in v. 6).
2 tn Heb “when.”
3 tn Heb “Listen to the voice of the people, to all which they say to you.”
4 tn Heb “and the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel.”
5 tn Heb “and go out before us.”