Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 12:12
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1 Samuel12:12
12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay, but a king shall reign over us , when the LORD your God was your king .
See the Notes on Chapter 11. 1.
i. e. When God was your immediate King and Governor, who was both able and willing to deliver you, if you had cried to him, whereof you and your Ancestors have had plentiful experience; so that you did not at all need any other King; and your desire of another, was a manifest reproach against God, as if he were either grown Impotent, or Unfaithful, or Unmerciful to you.
Marginal references: Chap. 8. 19.
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