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The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”
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Verse 12. Them. It seems there were but few discontented persons. Salien.—They address themselves to Samuel, who they knew had not regarded their request of a king with approbation, as if to give him a little mortification. But he makes a proposal of confirming the election with still greater solemnity, if they persevered in their resolution, ( Bible.) as he intimated they might still recede, ( Calmet.) and be content with the former mode of government, as being far better. Bible.
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