7 Then Jehovah said to Samuel:+ “Listen to the voice of the people as respects all that they say to you;+ for it is not you whom they have rejected, but it is I whom they have rejected from being king+ over them.

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.+