¹² And when you saw that ^(A)Nahash king of the Ammonites came against you, ^(B)you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when ^(C)the Lord your God was your king.

^14 (A)But now your kingdom shall not continue. ^(B)The Lord has sought for Himself a man ^(C)after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have ^(D)not kept what the Lord commanded you.”