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
'Only, he doth not multiply to himself horses, nor cause the people to turn back to Egypt, so as to multiply horses, seeing Jehovah hath said to you, Ye do not add to turn back in this way any more.
Judges 5:10
Riders on white asses -- Sitters on a long robe -- And walkers by the way -- meditate!
Judges 12:14
and he hath forty sons, and thirty grandsons, riding on seventy ass-colts, and he judgeth Israel eight years.
2 Samuel 15:1
And it cometh to pass afterwards, that Absalom prepareth for himself a chariot, and horses, and fifty men are running before him;
2 Samuel 16:2
And the king saith unto Ziba, 'What -- these to thee?' and Ziba saith, 'The asses for the household of the king to ride on, and the bread and the summer-fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for the wearied to drink in the wilderness.'
1 Kings 1:33
And the king saith to them, 'Take with you the servants of your lord, and ye have caused Solomon my son to ride on mine own mule, and caused him to go down unto Gihon,