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   ocr: D1d God oppose the very notion of a king? Probably not. Many years before, Moses had predicted the sraelites would someday have a king, and God eventually used the royal line to produce his own son Jesus, King of Kings. But the Bible makes one thing clear: God opposed the people's motives, as expressed by the elders, "Then we will be like all the other nations' (8:20). God - - did not want them to be like all the other nations. He, no numan being, was the true ruler of the sraelites. srael's first king began his reign with enurmuus promise. Saul was a perfect physical specimen-handsome, strong ...