Now make us a King] The danger by Nahash, as well as the wickednesse of Samuels sons, made the Israelites ask a King, 1 Sam. XII. 12. which they might have done warrantably, if they had waited patiently and faithfully, as well for the time when, as the person whom God should choose: But not tumultuously, and distrustfully, as they did now, 1 Sam. VIII. 5, &c. and Ch. XII. 19. Hos. VIII. 4.