“And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.”
According to all the deeds which they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you—the pattern of *apostasy* from the *yetziat Mitzrayim* (exodus from Egypt) to the present is continuous. The desire for a king is the latest manifestation of *abandoning the LORD* (*ozevin oti*), a repetition of the cycle of infidelity documented in Judges.
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