Horses

This morning while reading in I Kings 10, I noticed that the Scripture records Solomon imported horses from Egypt and Kue. On the surface this may not seem to contain much in regard to “All Scripture being profitable” but if you read Deuteronomy 17:14-20, you will find where God prohibits the acquiring of horses from Egypt. Solomon’s was in direct violation of God’s Word as he began accumulating Geldings, Gold, and Girls, as is written in Deut. 17. And he should have known this because the very next verse after the warning states that a new King was to write for himself in a book a copy of this law (first five books of the Bible, otherwise known as the Pentateuch), which he was to read all the days of his life. I think that many offenses against God would be averted if we just took the time to know what was written in the Word.