When the people ask Shmuel (Samuel) to appoint a King of
Israel, he threatens them that the king will conscript their sons for
soldiering and labor, take women for servants, and confiscate their
property. It is noteworty that he does not threaten that the king will
take their daughters as wives and concubines, given that this disregard for
women’s rights was commonplace throughout the ancient world and appears
repeatedly within the Tanach (bible.) It seems that such licentiousness
is completely unthinkable for a God-fearing person, even one with absolute
power.
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