¹⁸ When the day comes and you cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, Adonai will not answer you on that day.”

¹⁹ But the people refused to listen to Samuel, and they said, “No! But a king should be over us! ²⁰ So we may become like all the nations—having our king who will judge us, go out before us and fight our battles.”