I will not rule] I will not take unto me the place and power of a king over Gods people, and intail it to my posterity, but the regall rights shall remain still in the hand of God: Whereby it appeareth, That the judges in this book were not lords and kings over the people, but raised extraordinarily for the defence and deliverance of Israel, their laws and liberties remaining still entire. See Chap. 2. 16. and 1 Samuel 8:7. and 1 Samuel 12:12.