Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. "No!" they said. "We must have a king over us.

Deuteronomy 17:14
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, "Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,"

1 Samuel 12:12
But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, 'No, we must have a king to rule over us'--even though the LORD your God was your king.

Isaiah 66:4
So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight."

Jeremiah 44:16
"As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!

Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, No; but we will have a king over us;