Deut. 17-20 - Occupy Ancient Israel

The readings - Day 64 - Deuteronomy 17-20

So we're still trucking away with all the laws, etc, but there remain those merciful gems of interest scattered here and there.

Take, for instance, the stuff about setting up a king, talked about in chapter 17. Having spent a lot of time reading Judges over the years, I always had the impression that the whole "Israel wants to have a king" thing was a fairly new phenomenon - something that had arisen at around the time that the events in Judges were taking place.

Seems that (and for the record I'm not surprised by this) God saw it all coming. He outlined for Israel what type of king they should have, and the details are fascinating: