“But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord.”
And the LORD said to Samuel: Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them—the divine response is stark: the people's rejection of human-led theocracy is a rejection of *YHWH malakh* (the LORD's kingship). *Hematem otekha* (they have rejected you) is secondary; *hematem oti memlokh* (they have rejected me from being king) is primary.
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