In the first part of this two-part series, we began our review of Deuteronomy, chapter 17:14-20, where we read about an instruction that was to be given to a king showing that he was not to look after his own personal interests as being foremost in his activities, but to learn to fear God and to observe His law and statutes. We read in verse 14:
“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’…”
But why did God talk about a future king when Israel was a theocratic institution? We read in 1 Samuel 8 that Israel demanded a king. In verses 1-4, we read that Samuel was old and that his sons didn’t walk in the ways required of them. Then in verse 4, we see how this affected the nation:
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