 And what did the nation of Israel do? They wanted a king like the pagans. They wanted a monarchy. God said, I don't want you to have a monarchy. I want you to have decentralized executive branch of different judges that you can look at and control and tell when they're bad or good and when they're doing right or wrong objectively, and you'll be judged by that, and you'll handle your own matters separately and decentralized. No, we want to organize under a monarchy. And as Samuel laments, as Samuel the prophet is grieving, the Lord tells him,