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Commandments Concerning Kings - What Kings Should Not Do
Deut 17.14-20
- 1. Desire to be ruled - verse 14-15
- a. Deut 17.14 - desire to be like the nations about them
- b. 1 Sam 8.4-7 - rejection of God
- c. Deut 17.15 - whom the Lord will choose, not a stranger
- d. Acts 2.30-32 - therefore being by the right hand of God
- 2. Multiply horses to himself - verse 16
- a. Deut 17.16 - shall not multiply horses to himself
- b. Isa 31.1 - woe to them ... trust in chariots
- c. Jer 6.23 - they ride upon horses set in array as men for war
- d. Isa 31.3 - Egyptians are men and not God .. Their horses are flesh
- 3. Cause the people to return to Egypt - verse 16
- a. Deut 17.16 - to the end the he should multiply horses
- b. Isa 36.9 - how then wilt thou ... put thy trust on Egypt
- c. Jer 42.14-16 - warning not to go back to the Egypt
- 4. Neither shall be multiply wives to himself - verse 17
- a. Prov 31.3 - Give not thy strength unto women
- b. Neh 13.26 - outlandish women caused to sin
- c. 2 Cor 6.14 - be not unequally yoked
- 5. Multiply silver and gold - verse 17
- a.Prov 11.4 - riches profit not in the day of wrath
- b. Prov 11.28 - he that trusteth in his riches shall fall
- c. Matt 6.19-20 - lay not up for yourselves treasure on earth