...Samuel 8:7, "Heed 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. . . " (NKJ V) Have you ever lifted up and exalted someone just because of his or her looks? Of course...

...Samuel, "Heed 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. " If you do not know what to ask of God or when to ask it, go before Him in thanksgiving and in praise...

...thing displeased Samuel, when they said, "Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice...have rejected me, "that I should not reign over them. According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even...

...rejection of his rule as the ultimate King. "Hearken unto the voice of the people," says God to Samuel, "for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them" (i Sam. 8:7)." Royal rule is construed as a menace to divine rule, as a competing political system...

...is how Harrington interprets the words of i Samuel 8:8, when God comforts Samuel by telling him, " They have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them."40 To acknowledge a king is to forsake the one true king.41 For the English to choose to return...