A study into the king commandments of the Torah. They shouldn't be there. This is just another proof that the Torah is a post-Babylonian set of scrolls
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Another proof text that the Torah is a post-Babylonian set of documents is the fact that Deut 17 has two problematic issues.
The first issue is the fact that it mentions commandments dealing with kings.
The second issue and tell tale sign that the Torah is a post-Babylonian text is the fact that the commandments regarding the king are extremely anti-Solomon. Because it mentions NOT to have much gold, wives, horses and so forth. Which would be a sin for Solomon because he was #1 in all of that. The problem is that El Himself gave it all to him because Solomon asked for wisdom!
The problem with the commandment of the king to begin with is the fact that when we read 1 Samuel, Israel was never meant to have a king, because El alone was their king. They were only supposed to be a theocratic tribal confederacy.
So the Judian elders when they were making the Torah after the Babylonian exile, they wanted to guide the society a certain way, thus they wrote "scriptures" that had never heard of before commandments within it. But by doing so, their many bloopers pinpoint the Torah to be made in their own time frame, not that it was written 12 centuries before as what they were hoping to convey.
Now here are all of the scriptures....
Deut 17:14-17
14. "When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, `I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,' 15. you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman. 16. "Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the LORD has said to you, `You shall never again return that way.' 17. "He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.
2 Chron 1:11-12
And El said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king: Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.
1 Samuel 8
4. Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah; 5. and they said to him, "Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations." 6. But the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." And Samuel prayed to the LORD. 7. The LORD said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them. 8. "Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day--in that they have forsaken Me and served other gods--so they are doing to you also. 9. "Now then, listen to their voice; however, you shall solemnly warn them and tell them of the procedure of the king who will reign over them." 10. So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who had asked of him a king. 11. He said, "This will be the procedure of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and place them for himself in his chariots and among his horsemen and they will run before his chariots. 12. "He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and of fifties, and some to do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13. "He will also take your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14. "He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive groves and give them to his servants. 15. "He will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give to his officers and to his servants. 16. "He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work. 17. "He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants. 18. "Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day." 19. Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, "No, but there shall be a king over us, 20. that we also may be like all the nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."
1 Samuel 10
17. Thereafter Samuel called the people together to the LORD at Mizpah; 18. and he said to the sons of Israel, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `I brought Israel up from Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.' 19. "But you have today rejected your God, who delivers you from all your calamities and your distresses; yet you have said, `No, but set a king over us!'
1 Samuel 12
11. "Then the LORD sent Jerubbaal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel, and delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around, so that you lived in security. 12. "When you saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon came against you, you said to me, `No, but a king shall reign over us,' although the LORD your God was your king. 13. "Now therefore, here is the king whom you have chosen, whom you have asked for, and behold, the LORD has set a king over you. 14. "If you will fear the LORD and serve Him, and listen to His voice and not rebel against the command of the LORD, then both you and also the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God. 15. "If you will not listen to the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the command of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you, as it was against your fathers. 16. "Even now, take your stand and see this great thing which the LORD will do before your eyes. 17. "Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call to the LORD, that He may send thunder and rain. Then you will know and see that your wickedness is great which you have done in the sight of the LORD by asking for yourselves a king." 18. So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. 19. Then all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, so that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil by asking for ourselves a king."
So, by the verses we just read, Israel was never meant to have a king and so any laws concerning a king shouldn't exist in the Torah. And it wasn't a sin to have much wealth, nor much horses and wives.
Maregaal
Nov 26, 2019
Re-written from a paper I made years ago.
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