1 Samuel 8:5

“When you enter the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,’

‘But I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and I will build him a faithful house, and he will walk before My anointed always.

that we also may be like all the nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

“As for your donkeys which were lost three days ago, do not set your heart on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father’s household?”

“So now, here is the king walking before you, but I am old and gray, and behold, my sons are with you. And I have walked before you from my youth even to this day.

“So now, behold, the king whom you have chosen, whom you have asked for, and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.

Where now is your king, That he may save you in all your cities, And your judges of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

“Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.