Those sons surely did not know that what they did would be written down for us to read about today. They try to take bribes secretly and hope it will never be known. We believers can easily follow this road and choose being like careless Christians. But are we obedient to God’s Word? We need to remember that all our doings are known by the Lord, whether good or bad (2 Cor. 5:10).
V.5 The people ask for a king to reign over them. In their heart they didn’t want God as their King.
V.6-9 Samuel was so troubled about this that he asked the Lord what to do. The Lord tells Samuel “they have rejected Me.” They wanted to be “like the nations.”
V.10-18 Samuel tells the people what kind of man would reign over them, and the problems they would have with him.
V.19 In spite of this they answer “No, but we will have a king over us,” that we may be like all the nations. There it is again. They don’t want to be known simply as the people of God. What was at work? Their will! is ours?