By Elimu Assistant Team 
Reasons given by Samuel against Kingship in Israel
- Would be rejection against God as King and leader
- In becoming like other nations, Israelites would lose their identity
- Yahweh would reject them
- Israel would become like other nations who did not know Yahweh
- King to introduce forced labor
- King to grabs land/ vineyards
- To be forced to pay high taxes
- Daughters to work in royal houses
- Sons to be recruited to the army
- King to enslave people
