14 “When you eventually come into the land that Jehovah your God is giving you, and you have taken possession of it and have dwelt in it,+ and you have said, ‘Let me set a king over myself like all the nations who are round about me’;+

8 “Once upon a time the trees went to anoint a king over them. So they said to the olive tree,+ ‘Do be king* over us.’+

6 But the thing was bad in the eyes of Samuel inasmuch as they had said: “Do give us a king to judge us,” and Samuel began to pray to Jehovah.+

12 When YOU saw that Naʹhash+ the king of the sons of Amʹmon had come against YOU, YOU kept saying to me, ‘No, but a king is what should reign over us!’+ all the while Jehovah YOUR God being YOUR King.+

10 “Where, then, is your king, that he may save you in all your cities,+ and your judges, [concerning] whom you said, ‘Do give me a king and princes’?+