When thou shalt say, I will set a king over me He only foresees and foretels what they would do, but does not hereby signify that he should approve of it. Yea, when they did this thing, for the very reason here assigned, God declared his utter disapprobation of it.
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Deuteronomy 17:13
13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.