The way of the worldly governments:


Matt.20:25-26 Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

The battle for dominion over others is an on going theme in scripture:
Even Christ's disciples fought over that! The verse above is actually in context of the disciples wanting positions of authority over others.
James and John presented, through their mother, a petition requesting that they might be permitted to occupy the highest positions of honor and power in Christ's kingdom, Jesus understood the motive that prompted the request and thus reproved the pride and ambition of the two disciples.

We can ask questions?
The Israelites asking (and receiving) a king, was, in a very real sense considered "Wrong". It was NOT the answer to their problems.
God was to be their King, but now a mere sinful human sat on the throne in Jerusalem. While there were a few kings that were fairly "good", most were evil and even the "good" ones had problems.

But, looking through the book of Judges, it seems obvious Israel needed good, solid leaders. By human reasoning, they needed a king. Everyone was doing what they considered right in their own eyes and things just weren't going "right". So won't a king be the right answer?

The problem was they (the majority, there were always some who remained faithful) but the majority had "forsaken" God long before they asked for a king. Indeed they were not depending upon God or seeking His presence in their lives.

God chose Israel as the depositary of priceless treasure of truth for all nations, and He gave them His law as the standard of the character they were to develop before the world, before angels, and before the unfallen worlds. They were to do this in His power, and strength. They were to seek His counsel and He would visibly answer them through the Urim and Thummim. These were special stones on the priests breast plate for divine guidance. Their names mean "lights" and "perfections", indicating their role in illuminating the will of God and ensuring perfect truth. They were consulted in times of uncertainty, allowing the high priest to receive direct guidance from God for the welfare of the people.
God had set before His chosen people a visible demonstration of the plan of salvation by giving them the sanctuary and it's services, all of which were illustrations of His plan and promise, His love and intercession, to save them from their sins.

Yet Satan had counterfeited even this in a huge way. Satan had inspired the surrounding nations to have temples and sacrifices as well, but the emphases there was not focused on God who would supply HIMSELF the Lamb to rescue mankind from sin. The focus became one of appeasing God by man giving a sacrifice to earn favor for himself. Thus sin was excused and even glorified and favors were bought by how many "gods" were given tokens to enlist their favor.

When people place the God of heaven on the same level as created "gods" governed by man's own reason, there is no power against sin. Sin works its chaos and evil.
Then people start looking for kings and authority figures in legislative halls to put restraints on the growing tide of evil.

When the power of God on the heart and mind is not the focus of life, when His law is not cherished as the great standard of truth, and people look to the state as the controller of morality, it has been demonstrated over and over again, that the laws of man were inadequate to hold in check the powerful tides of human passion, (they cannot hold in check societies passions nor the passions of the governing authorities) and the results were NOT the good they had envisioned.