BRAGAAYJAG
559
Concerning
Your Request for a King
The
Lord foresaw that the time would come that after his people would have settled
and got comfortable in the land He had given them, that they would request a
king to rule over them like the surrounding nations, instead of the judges He
had appointed for them; so he told them, “when you come into the land that I
have given you, and after you would have settled in and you shall then say you
want a king like the other nations, you will surely set him king over you whom
the Lord shall choose, one of your brethren to rule over you. You must never set a foreigner over you to
rule over you; but he shall not breed horses to himself to cause you to return
to Egypt; for the Lord has commanded you shall no more return to Egypt. And such a king shall not surround himself
with many wives nor with silver and gold.
And it shall come to pass that when he sits on the throne he shall write
a copy of this law in a book which is before the priests the Levites. And he shall keep the book and read out of it
all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep
all the words of this law and these statutes to do them. And his heart shall not be lifted up above
his brethren, and turn neither to the right nor to the left aside from keeping
these commandments, that it may be well with him and his children and with all
Israel.
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