This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen... Samuel the Seer/Prophet (1070-1012 BC)

See first the prior post, for the verses are referenced... Now, the entire context, the historical as well modernly applicable warning by the Old Testament prophet Samuel...

"And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king. And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day. Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us."

Samuel the Seer/Prophet (1070-1012 BC)
1 Samuel 8:10-19, King James Version (1611)

Isn't interesting, when the Hebrews covetously, presumptuously, arrogantly disrespected then disregarded the prophet Samuel's divinely inspired warning against monarchic thus unaccountable monocratic, despotic, tyrannic rule over pluralistic thus accountable logical, ethical, moral, even pious self rule, as during era of the Judges, it was a point of no return as well documented for centuries thereafter until the Roman occupation then destruction and scattering in 70 AD.

Oh, would have the American colonials listened to such warnings and ancient lessons during the summer of 1787 and the years that followed? Wait, the American colonials were warned numerously, and in great detail, per the newspaper articles now compiled and entitled Anti-Federalist Papers. Yet like the Hebrews, they covetously, presumptuously, arrogantly disrespected then disregarded those warnings and still do today.

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