Fight our battles—It appears from 1 Samuel 12:12 that the warlike movements of Nahash had already begun to cause alarm.

Like all the nations. —There is something strangely painful in these terms with which the elders urged their request—the wish “to …

That we also may be like all the nations
Even though they were slaves, like them; a king they would have, as they ha…

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…