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MARCH 28
14 “When you come to the land which the
MARCH 28 LORD your God is giving you, and possess it
and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over
me like all the nations that are around me,’
15 you shall surely set a king over you whom
Deuteronomy 17:1–18:22
the LORD your God chooses; one from among
“You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your your brethren you shall set as king over you;
17 God a bull or sheep which has any you may not set a foreigner over you, who is
blemish or defect, for that is an abomination to not your brother. But he shall not multiply
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the LORD your God. horses for himself, nor cause the people to
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“If there is found among you, within any of return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the
your gates which the LORD your God gives LORD has said to you, ‘You shall not return that
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you, a man or a woman who has been wicked way again.’ Neither shall he multiply wives
in the sight of the LORD your God, in trans- for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall
gressing His covenant, who has gone and he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.
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served other gods and worshiped them, either
the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven,
which I have not commanded, and it is told
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you, and you hear of it, then you shall inquire 17:16,17 multiply…multiply…multiply.
diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain Restrictions were placed on the king: 1) he
that such an abomination has been committed must not acquire many horses; 2) he must not
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in Israel, then you shall bring out to your take multiple wives; and 3) he must not accu-
gates that man or woman who has committed mulate much silver and gold.The king was not
that wicked thing, and shall stone to death to rely on military strength, political alliances,
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that man or woman with stones. Whoever is or wealth for his position and authority,but he
deserving of death shall be put to death on the was to look to the Lord. Solomon violated all
testimony of two or three witnesses; he shall of those prohibitions, while his father, David,
not be put to death on the testimony of one violated the last two.Solomon’s wives brought
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witness. The hands of the witnesses shall be idolatry into Jerusalem, which resulted in the
the first against him to put him to death, and kingdom being divided (1 Kin. 11:1–43).
afterward the hands of all the people. So you
shall put away the evil from among you.
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“If a matter arises which is too hard for you “Also it shall be, when he sits on the
to judge, between degrees of guilt for blood- throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for
shed, between one judgment or another, or himself a copy of this law in a book, from the
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between one punishment or another, matters one before the priests, the Levites. And it
of controversy within your gates, then you shall be with him, and he shall read it all the
shall arise and go up to the place which the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the
LORD your God chooses. And you shall come LORD his God and be careful to observe all
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to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge the words of this law and these statutes, that
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there in those days, and inquire of them; they his heart may not be lifted above his brethren,
shall pronounce upon you the sentence of that he may not turn aside from the com-
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judgment. You shall do according to the sen- mandment to the right hand or to the left, and
tence which they pronounce upon you in that that he may prolong his days in his kingdom,
place which the LORD chooses. And you shall he and his children in the midst of Israel.
be careful to do according to all that they “The priests, the Levites—all the tribe of
order you. According to the sentence of the 18 Levi—shall have no part nor inheritance
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law in which they instruct you, according to with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the
the judgment which they tell you, you shall LORD made by fire, and His portion. There-
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do; you shall not turn aside to the right hand fore they shall have no inheritance among
or to the left from the sentence which they their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance,
pronounce upon you. Now the man who acts as He said to them.
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presumptuously and will not heed the priest 3 “And this shall be the priest’s due from the
who stands to minister there before the LORD people, from those who offer a sacrifice,
your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to
you shall put away the evil from Israel. And the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the
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all the people shall hear and fear, and no stomach. The firstfruits of your grain and
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longer act presumptuously. your new wine and your oil, and the first of the
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