and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
      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,