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1Sa_10:25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote [it] in a book, and laid [it] up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
Ver. 25. Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom.] Not what it usually is, - degenerating into tyranny, as if it were not enough to be above men, but to be above mankind, {1Sa_8:9-10} - but what it ought to be, according to Deu_17:14-16 Eze_45:9-10; Eze_46:6.
And wrote it in a book.] {a} That it might be as their Magna Charta, made to keep the beam right betwixt sovereignty and subjection.
{a} Hic liber periit cum multis aliis. - Vat.