“And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the LORD—the *ra'a* (it was evil) in Samuel's eyes signals his theological opposition. The request for human kingship is implicitly a rejection of divine kingship. Samuel's *tefillah* (prayer) seeks the LORD's guidance on this crisis.
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