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1 Samuel — Chapter 10

Cornelius à Lapide SJ · Biblical Commentary

Verse 25

Samuel explained to the people the right of the king and wrote it in a book. Lapide: the true and just right of a faithful king — what the king owes to God, to the people, and to himself — is given here by God through Samuel; distinct from the tyrannical law of 8:11. Cf. Deut. 17.