Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
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Gill's Exposition
Now therefore hearken unto their voice,.... And appoint them a king as they desire:
howbeit, yet protest solemnly unto them; not against the thing itself, which was permitted, but against the evil…
Adam Clarke
Show them the manner of the king - The word משפט mishpat, which we here render manner, signifies simply what the king would and might require, according to the manner in which kings in general ruled;…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Now therefore hearken Or, And now. There is no inference -because they reject me and thee, therefore, &c.," but the command of 1Sa 8:8 is repeated. For the reasons why the request was granted, see…
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