While reading Deuteronomy for Sunday School, I came across
the following verses:
“When you come to
the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess
it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the
nations that are around me,’ you may indeed set a king over you
whom the LORD your God will choose. One from
among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner
over you, who is not your brother. Only he must
not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in
order to acquire many horses, since the LORD has said to
you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’ And he shall not acquire many wives
for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself
excessive silver and gold.”
Deuteronomy 17:14-17
I had forgotten that God, through Moses, reveals his will
for future kings of Israel. I wonder what
David and the other kings of Israel thought about these verses? I think, all but
one failed in the "excessive silver, horses, and wives" part.
“He was despised and rejected by men…”
“…your king is coming to you…humble and mounted on a donkey…”
“…foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the
Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Truly he is the King of kings!
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