1Sa 8:7-8, 1Ki 11:33, Hos 8:4 | ESV | STEP | And the Lord said to Samuel , Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.

1 Samuel 8:7-8

7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, ^afor they have not rejected you, ^bbut they have rejected me from being king over them. 8 According to all the deeds that 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.

1 Kings 11:33

33 because they have ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate he has; twice in this verse} forsaken me ^dand worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.

Hosea 8:4

4 ^eThey made kings, ^fbut not through me.
They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
for their own destruction.