Deuteronomy 17:14
When you have come to the land which the Lord your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, "I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me";
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In Context
13All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:1When the Lord your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
Deuteronomy 12:9for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 26:1It shall be, when you have come in to the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein,
Joshua 1:13"Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, 'The Lord your God gives you rest, and will give you this land.
1 Samuel 8:19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No; but we will have a king over us,
1 Samuel 12:19All the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask 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 →