1 Samuel 8:6-7

6But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord. 7And 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.

1 Samuel 10:19

19 cBut today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’ Now therefore dpresent yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.”

1 Samuel 12:12

12And 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.

Isaiah 33:22

22For the Lord is our hjudge; the Lord is our ilawgiver;
the Lord is our jking; he will save us.

Isaiah 63:19

19 kWe have become like those over whom you have never ruled,
like those who are not called by your name.
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