TSK · 1 Samuel 8:5

Provision for Kingship When you come to the land the LORD your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say,“I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,”

But this request displeased Samuel, for they said,“Give us a king to lead us.” So Samuel prayed to the LORD.

We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us and fight our battles.”

Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the LORD so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the LORD by asking for a king for yourselves.”

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.