NATURALLY following the national covenant (Ex. 19) and the giving of the law from Sinai (Ex. 20) and preliminary to the civil code—“the statutes and judgments”—comes in the Theocracy—a term used to designate the system of government established for the Hebrew people.
Here we may consider briefly the following points:
I. The Supreme Power.
II. The powers of Jehovah’s vicegerents—his chief executive officers.
III. The general assembly or congregation, and their elders.
IV. The scope afforded for self-government-democracy.
V. The fundamental principles of this entire system.
VI. Its union of church and state.
VII. Its principles and usages in respect to war, with a notice of the war-commission against the doomed Canaanites.
I. The Supreme Power.