Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.
Bible References
Sitting
Deuteronomy 17:16
Further, he shall not acquire many [war] horses for himself, nor make the people return to Egypt in order to acquire horses [to expand his military power], since the Lord said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’
Judges 5:10
“Sing of it, you who ride on white donkeys,
You who sit on rich carpets,
And you who walk by the way.
“Sing of it, you who ride on white donkeys,
You who sit on rich carpets,
And you who walk by the way.
Judges 12:14
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel for eight years.
2 Samuel 15:1
After this, Absalom provided for himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men as runners before him.
2 Samuel 16:2
The king said to Ziba, “Why do you have these?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household (family) to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine is for anyone to drink who becomes weary in the wilderness.”
1 Kings 1:33
The king told them, “Take the servants of your lord with you and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and bring him down to [the spring at] Gihon [in the Kidron Valley].