IIRC, there’s a kind of a cultural precedent in the Old Testament notion that a king ought not have too many wives or horses… though I can’t remember exactly where that comes from.
Deuteronomy chapter 17. The standard scholarly explanation puts this text as being written at the end of or right after the destruction of the first Temple, so they’ve had a few hundred years to see all the bad things that kings can do.
Deuteronomy chapter 17. The standard scholarly explanation puts this text as being written at the end of or right after the destruction of the first Temple, so they’ve had a few hundred years to see all the bad things that kings can do.