The National Prayer Minute

All the King’s Horses, and All the King’s Men Notes

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Our founders saw King George’s increasing bureaucracy as a severe economic threat to their liberty, as stated in the Declaration:
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
In I Samuel, God warned His people that their rejection of His rule would result in the same thing… eaten’ out of house and home by their requested king and his bureaucracies:
11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you