Matthew 21:5

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Summary

Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

Thy king

Meek

Sitting

Bible References

Thy king

“Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”

“The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,

Until Shiloh comes,

And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

“One from Jacob shall have dominion,
And will destroy the remnant from the city.”

“But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

A Psalm of David.

The Lord says to my Lord:

“Sit at My right hand
Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;
And the government will rest on His shoulders;
And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“When I will raise up for David a righteous

Branch;

And He will reign as king and act wisely
And do justice and righteousness in the land.

And I, the Lord, will be their God, and My servant David will be prince among them; I the Lord have spoken.

“My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.

In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.

“I kept looking in the night visions,
And behold, with the clouds of heaven
One like a Son of Man was coming,
And He came up to the Ancient of Days
And was presented before Him.

“But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Too little to be among the clans of Judah,
From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel.

His goings forth are from long ago,

From the days of eternity.”

Then say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold, a man whose name is

Branch, for He will

branch out from where He is; and He will build the temple of the Lord.

Nathanael answered Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel.”

So they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him, crucify Him!” Pilate *said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”

Meek

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

“He will not quarrel, nor cry out;
Nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets.

Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!

Do nothing from

selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;

Sitting

Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never again return that way.’

“You who ride on white donkeys,
You who sit on rich carpets,
And you who travel on the road—sing!

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel eight years.

The king said to Ziba, “Why do you have these?” And Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine, for whoever is faint in the wilderness to drink.”

The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and have my son Solomon ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.

Now Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

But I will have compassion on the house of Judah and deliver them by the Lord their God, and will not deliver them by bow, sword, battle, horses or horsemen.”

“It will be in that day,” declares the Lord,
“That I will cut off your horses from among you
And destroy your chariots.

I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
And the horse from Jerusalem;
And the bow of war will be cut off.
And He will speak peace to the nations;
And His dominion will be from sea to sea,
And from the River to the ends of the earth.