7Yahweh said to Samuel, |Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.


In Context

4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;

5 and they said to him, |Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make 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.| Samuel prayed to Yahweh.

7 Yahweh said to Samuel, |Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.

9 Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who shall reign over them.|

1 Samuel 8:7 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And the Lord told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And Jehovah said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7And Jehovah said to Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, 'Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And the LORD said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you: for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.