[Annie]

can you apply that to all nations though? Israel was set aside specifically for God to be led and molded by Him in a pretty direct way obviously that was a special case. When they decided to throw that away in favour of following along with the rest of other nations that was a pretty blunt way of telling God that they had no interest in being His people but wanting to live as the rest of the world.

And the LORD said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them. 8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day—with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also. - 1 Sam 8:7

but does that mean all nations should reject their governments that God has ordaind for them (rom 13) and become a theocracy like Israel was having only prophets and judges to guide us?