Politics · 19 · Solomon and Sheba
Saving without ruling
In Samuel, God saves Israel through kings like Saul and David. Judges invents an office, the judge, that rescues the nation without becoming a king.
Deliverance without dynasty.
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Without taxes funding a professional army, such societies avoid sharp class divisions.
Bible reference: 1 Samuel 11:13; 2 Samuel 3:18
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 306
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