I will be your King - (literally, “I would be” your King) Where is any other that may save you, etc.? A better translation would be: Whe…

The rendering should be, Where, pray, is your king, that he may save you? etc. The original demand for a king who should be a visible toke…

O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; but in me your help. I will be your king:

If you have shifted me from the throne, and set up …

In the first place, God reproaches the Israelites for having in their perverseness rejected whatever was offered for their safety. But He proceeds …

I will be your King, where [is any other] that may save you in
all your cities ?
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Israel had destroyed himself by his rebellion; but he could not save himself, his help was from the Lord only. This may well be applied to the case…