that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
      I. The address of the elders to Samuel in this matter (1 Samuel 8:4; 1 Samuel 8:5): They gathered themselves together, by common consent; and not in a riotous tumultuous manner, but with the respect due to his character, they came to him to his house as Ramah with their address, which contained,