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Deuteronomy 17:14-20 — The King

Deut.17.14-20

¹⁴When you enter the land that Yahweh your God is giving you, and you take possession of it and dwell in it, and you say, “I will set a king over me like all the nations around me,” ¹⁵you must indeed appoint over yourselves a king whom Yahweh your God chooses. You shall appoint a king over yourselves from among your brothers; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves, one who is not your brother. ¹⁶Only he must not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, for Yahweh has said to you, “You shall never return by this way again.” ¹⁷And he must not multiply wives for himself, so that his heart may not turn away ; and he must not greatly multiply silver and gold for himself. ¹⁸And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a scroll a copy of this law, taken from before the Levitical priests . ¹⁹And it shall remain with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them. ²⁰so that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and so that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may long endure over his kingdom in the midst of Israel.

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4/11/2026

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