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Let us now look at the authority of the king. As it is, the early Jews had no king with pagan sovereignty until the days of Samuel the prophet. Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Ramah and there they said to him:

But the thing was evil in the sight of Samuel when they said, 'Give us a king.'

Nevertheless, Samuel prayed earnestly unto the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel:

Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking of him a king; and he said:

This will be the procedure of the king who shall rule over you: he will take your sons and appoint them for himself for his chariots and for his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots; and he will appoint for himself

1-Samuel 8:5,.

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