The Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them.I can sympathize with Samuel's feeling here, as can most people. He feels he has failed the people, because they want to go a direction he has told them they should not. They aren't listening, and he feels that they are rejecting him. However, God shows that he is taking it personally, when he should not. In fact, the people aren't going against Samuel, they're going against God Himself.
They know that He commanded that they not take a king like the nations around them, but have decided that they don't have any other choice. They don't think God can take care of them, or that He can't bring up a new judge, if Samuel's sons are corrupt. They think that because they have a couple bad judges, that they are doomed forever, and God can't/won't help them, so they have to take their fates into their own hands.
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