1 Samuel 8:8-14 – As they have done from the day I brought
them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are
doing to you. Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them
will claim as his rights.” Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a
king. He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will
claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they
will run in front of his chariots. Some he will assign to be
commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow
his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and
equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters
to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of
your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his
attendants.
Deuteronomy
17:14-15,19-20 – When
you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you
and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set
a king over us like all the nations around us,” be sure to
appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among
your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who
is not an Israelite…It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of
his life so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words
of this law and these decrees and not
consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law to the right or to the
left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in
Israel.
Micah 2:2 – They
covet fields and seize
them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their
inheritance.
Application:
- · Using a description of the policies of contemporary Canaanite kings, Samuel warns the people of the burdens associated with the type of kingship they long for.
- · The king was not above God’s law, any more than were the humblest of his subjects.
- · King’s coveted in violation of the tenth commandment.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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