On the shipbuilding planet of Corellia, Lady Proxima leads a crime syndicate where a young Han was in the middle of completing a transaction for her when things went wrong. As he handed over the hyper fuel (coaxium), the buyer’s goons jumped Han, stealing the coaxium.
He is taken before Lady Proxima, who proclaims, “There must be consequences for disobedience or else you never learn.”
After a short beating, Han snidely replies, “You know what? I don’t think I’m ever going to learn.”
Instead of obeying the LORD and keeping Him as their king, the Israelites wanted a man to be their king, just like the nations surrounding them (8:5).
In 1 Samuel 9:15-17, we read about how Saul, son of Kish, was chosen to be king over Israel even though the LORD in 1 Samuel 8:7 told the prophet, Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them.”
Yet in 1 Samuel 13:13-14, “And Samuel said to Saul, ‘You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which He commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.'”
Saul faced the consequences of disobeying Samuel the prophet, and so did Israel for their desire to have a king.
We know from Romans 6:23, “the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Thankfully we have a true King. See John 18:33-37.
