Study Desk

"When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you ^(p)possess it and live in it, and you say, ‘^(q)I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,'

you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses, one ^(r)from among your ^[l]countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your ^[m]countryman.

^(s)Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he ^(t)cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since ^(u)the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never again return that way.'

^(v)He shall not multiply wives for himself, ^[n]or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.

"Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll ^[o](w)in the presence of the Levitical priests.

It shall be with him and he shall read it ^(x)all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, ^[p]by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes,