Deuteronomy 17:14-16

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Choosing a King

¹⁴ When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, taking it as your ·own [possession] and living in it, you will say, “·Let’s appoint [^LI will set] a king over ·us [^Lme] like the nations all around us [1 Sam. 8:5, 20].” ¹⁵ Be sure to ·appoint [set] over you the king the Lord your God chooses. He must be one of your own ·people [relatives; ^Lbrothers]. Do not ·appoint [set] as your king a foreigner who is not a ·fellow Israelite [relative; ^Lbrother]. ¹⁶ The king must not ·have too many [multiply] horses for himself [Is. 2:7–9], and he must not send people to Egypt to get more horses, because the Lord has told you, “Don’t return that way again.”