Deuteronomy 17:13-15

Living Bible

¹³ Then everyone will hear about what happened to the man who refused God’s verdict, and they will be afraid to defy a court’s judgment.

¹⁴ “When you arrive in the land the Lord your God will give you, and have conquered it, and begin to think, ‘We ought to have a king like the other nations around us’— ¹⁵ be sure that you select as king the man the Lord your God shall choose. He must be an Israelite, not a foreigner.