Deuteronomy 17:14
And when you shall enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, and shall inherit it and dwell in it, and shall say, I will set a ruler over me, as also the other nations round about me;
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
13And all the people shall hear and fear, and shall no more commit impiety.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:1And when the Lord your God shall bring you into the land, into which you go to possess it, and shall remove great nations from before you, the Chettite, and Gergesite, and Amorite, and Chananite, and Pherezite, and Evite, and Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and stronger than you,
Deuteronomy 12:9For hitherto you⌃ have not arrived at the rest and the inheritance, which the Lord our God gives you.
Deuteronomy 26:1And it shall be when you shall have entered into the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit it, and you shall have inherited it, and you shall have lived upon it,
Joshua 1:13Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, the Lord your God has caused you to rest, and has given you this land.
1 Samuel 8:19But the people would not listen to Samuel; and they said to him, Nay, but there shall be a king over us.
1 Samuel 12:19And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, and let us not die; for we have added to all our sins this iniquity, in asking for us 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 →