1 Samuel 8:10

And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto them,.... How he considered this request of theirs as a rejection of him as their king, and that it was acting the same ungrateful part they had always…

We have here the starting of a matter perfectly new and surprising, which was the setting up of kingly government in Israel. Perhaps the thing had been often talked of among them by those that were…

The rights of a king

10. unto the people Through their representatives the elders. Cp. note on 1Sa 8:8.