1 Samuel 8:6-8

New Catholic Bible

⁶ It displeased Samuel when they said to him, “Appoint a king over us,” so Samuel prayed to the Lord. ⁷ The Lord said to him, “Listen to everything that the people have requested of you. It is not you whom the people have rejected, they have rejected me as their king. ⁸ They have done this from the day that I brought them up out of Egypt to this very day. They have rejected me and served other gods, just as they have rejected you.