The manner of the kingdom - that is, the just prerogative of the kingdom, the law, or bill of rights, by which the king’s power was limited …

Wrote it in a book. —The “Law of the Kingdom,” which Samuel declared to the people, and which he wrote in a scroll, and solemnly d…

Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom , &e.] According to Ben Gersom, he laid before them the power a kin…

Samuel tells the people, You have this day rejected your God. Saul now had so little fondness for that power—which, soon after he possesse…