Feb 27:
Deut. 17 speaks of the King writing for himself a copy of the law. This strikes me since writing was a premium back then. Professional scribes were almost always used to write things - paper was too precious to mess up. Also, my mind flashed forward to Josiah when I read about how the King was to revere the law and read it all the days of his life. Josiah became King at a time when the law had been lost completely. He discovered it and said, "hey, we should do this!" Duh!

Feb28:
I remember reading where God had established certain towns where people who "unintensionally" murder someone, this person could go and live. Wierd idea in my mind - it's known as the "city of refuge". That is spoke of again in Ex. 21. The death penalty is a hot topic for many in today's culture. I like what the Lord had to say about it, you can't give the penalty with only one witness - but with at least two - that ensures that there isn't a caspiracy (sort of).

New verse for my kids to memorize: "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death." Ex. 21.15 That should put some fear into their britches ... not really.

Okay ... I ask why ... "If two men are fighting and the wife of the one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand! Show her not pity." Ouch! Ex 25.11-12