But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this man save us? They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
      V. Samuel settles the original contract between them, and leaves it upon record, 1 Samuel 10:25; 1 Samuel 10:25. He had before told them the manner of the king (1 Samuel 8:11; 1 Samuel 8:11), how he would abuse his power; now he tells them the manner of the kingdom, or rather the law, or judgment, or constitution, of it, what power the prince might challenge and the utmost of the property the subject might claim. He fixed the land-marks between them, that neither might encroach upon the other. Let them rightly understand one another at first, and let the agreement remain in black and white, which will tend to preserve a good understanding between them ever after. The learned bishop Patrick thinks he now repeated and registered what he had told them (1 Samuel 8:11; 1 Samuel 8:11) of the arbitrary power their kings would assume, that it might hereafter be a witness against them that they had drawn the calamity upon themselves, for they were warned what it would come to and yet they would have a king.