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A Constitutional Monarchy
Commentators explain that when Samuel wrote down "the manner of the kingdom," he was establishing a form of constitutional monarchy. This document, likely based on Deuteronomy 17, served as a "bill of rights" that defined and limited the king's power, ensuring he would rule under God's established law, not as an absolute despot.
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Samuel 10:25
18th Century
Theologian
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 …
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Samuel 10:25
19th Century
Bishop
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…
John Gill
On 1 Samuel 10:25
17th Century
Pastor
Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom , &e.] According to Ben Gersom, he laid before them the power a kin…
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Matthew Henry
On 1 Samuel 10:17–27
17th Century
Minister
Samuel tells the people, You have this day rejected your God. Saul now had so little fondness for that power���which, soon after he posses…