1 Samuel 8:7

8:7 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do everything the people request of you. ¹  For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.

1 Samuel 9:6

9:6 But the servant said to him, “Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. ²  Now let’s go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here.” ³ 

[8:7]  ¹ tn Heb “Listen to the voice of the people, to all which they say to you.”

[9:6]  ² tn The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.

[9:6]  ³ tn Heb “our way on which we have gone.”