Deuteronomy 17:14
When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;
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13And all the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear and put away their pride.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:1When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;
Deuteronomy 12:9For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 26:1Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;
Joshua 1:13Keep in mind what Moses, the servant of the Lord, said to you, The Lord your God is sending you rest and will give you this land.
1 Samuel 8:19But the people gave no attention 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, Make prayer for us to the Lord your God so that death may not overtake us: for in addition to all our sins we have done this evil, in desiring a king.
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 →