Deuteronomy 17:14
When thou have come to the land which LORD thy God gives thee, and shall possess it, and shall dwell in it, and shall say, I will set a king over me like all the nations that are round about me,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:1When LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land where thou go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and
Deuteronomy 12:9For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which LORD thy God gives thee.
Deuteronomy 26:1And it shall be, when thou have come in to the land which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell in it,
Joshua 1:13Remember the word which Moses the servant of LORD commanded you, saying, LORD your God gives you rest, and will give you this land.
1 Samuel 8:19But the people refused to hearken to the voice of Samuel. And they said, No, but we will have a king over us
1 Samuel 12:19And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for thy servants to LORD thy God that we not die, for we have added to all our sins [this] evil, to ask a king for us.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 17:9-14
The Authority of the Judges. ( b. c. 1451.) 8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose; 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the… Read the whole commentary →