Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?'
Although this verse points back to  2 Samuel 8, in which is recorded the account of Israel's rejection of the Theocracy and their demand for a king, it also has in view the rejection of the house of David by Ephraim and the rebellion of the Ten Tribes, as well as numerous other times in their immediate past when successive palace revolutions and the frantic seeking of the people for new kings had led to frequent changes in the monarchy. All of these events, however, were embryonicly contained in their original demand.  In the very nature of kings and human goverments, there must ever be constant and increasing pressures against the "ins" and "outs."  Israel had ordered the whole system when they demanded a king; and all of the subsequent revolutions were only the logical fruits of their first departure from the government God had given them.