Hosea 13:10

"Where now is thy king, that he may see thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?"

"Here, Hosea returns to one of his favorite subjects, the monarchy, making it clear that this time he is not only antagonistic to the northern kings but to the monarchy as such. The monarchy is powerless to save the nation, israel was wrong to ask for a king. Her punishment was that she got what she asked."[20]

"Where now is thy king ...? "This does not imply that Israel had no king at all at that time, but simply that it had no king who could save it."[21]

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.