Deuteronomy 17:14-15
14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
Deu. 17:14, 15. In what is said here about a king we have a plain instance of God's suffering the people to do that which yet he did not approve of, parallel to the instance Christ mentioned, Matthew 19:8. For when the people did the very thing here spoken of, when they said, " I will set, " etc., God manifested His great disapprobation of it (1 Samuel 8:6-8; 1 Samuel 12:16-19).