1Sa 8:5-9, 12:12-19, Psa 81:12, Eze 14:2-5, 2Th 2:9-12 | ESV | STEP | and said to him, Behold , you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways . Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations .

1 Samuel 8:5-9

5 and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. ^aNow appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, ^bfor they have not rejected you, ^cbut 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. 9 Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them ^dand show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.”

1 Samuel 12:12-19

12 And when you saw that ^eNahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, ^fyou said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ ^gwhen the Lord your God was your king. 13 And now ^hbehold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, ⁱthe Lord has set a king over you. 14 If you will ^jfear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God, it will be well. 15 But ^kif you will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then ^lthe hand of the Lord will be against you and ^myour king. ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew fathers} 16 Now therefore ^ostand still and see this great thing that the Lord will do before your eyes. 17 ^pIs it not wheat harvest today? ^qI will call upon the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that ^ryour wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king.” 18 So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, ^sand all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

19 And all the people said to Samuel, ^t“Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.”

Psalms 81:12

12 So I ^ugave them over to their ^vstubborn hearts,
to follow their own ^wcounsels.

Ezekiel 14:2-5

2 And the word of the Lord came to me: 3 ^x“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set ^ythe stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. ^zShould I indeed let myself be consulted by them? 4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, ^aaI the Lord will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols, 5 ^abthat I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, ^acwho are all estranged from me through their idols.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan ^adwith all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for ^aethose who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore ^afGod sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe ^agwhat is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned ^ahwho did not believe the truth but ^aihad pleasure in unrighteousness.