See illustrations: 1 Kings 5:13–18 and 1 Kings 12:4.

And your goodliest young men. —The Septuagint Greek Version here reads, “your best oxen,” which required only the change …

And he will take your manservants, and your maidservants ,
&c.] Into his own family, for his own use and service, if…

If they wished to have a king to rule them, as the eastern kings ruled their subjects, they would find the yoke exceedingly heavy. Those who submit…