That we also may be like all the nations: woeful stupidity! whereas it was their glory and happiness that they were unlike all other nations, Numbers 23:9 Deuteronomy 33:28, as in other glorious privileges, so especially in this, that the Lord was their only and immediate King and Lawgiver.
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1 Samuel 8:20
20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.