1 Samuel 12:12

12. When ye saw that Nahash… came This shows, as we have elsewhere noted, (at beginning of chap. 8,) that the Ammonite invasion was one reason of Israel’s urgent request for a king. See, he says, your disrespect and ingratitude towards God. When a judge was in your midst by whom God had wrought you most signal deliverance from your foes, ye see another enemy in the distance, and begin to clamour for a human king, apparently forgetting that Jehovah, your God, was your king!