And the Lord said unto Samuel, … fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. 1 Samuel 16:1. When the sacrifice was ended,
Like Everyone Else
Nay; but we will have a king over us; that we also may be like all the nations. 1 Samuel 8:19, 20. The Hebrews demanded a king of Samuel, like the nations around them. By preferring a despotic monarch to