Ulangan 17:15

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

maka hanyalah raja yang dipilih TUHAN, Allahmu, yang harus kauangkat atasmu. Dari tengah-tengah saudara-saudaramu haruslah engkau mengangkat seorang raja atasmu; seorang asing yang bukan saudaramu tidaklah boleh kauangkat atasmu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
maka hanyalah raja yang dipilih TUHAN, Allahmu, yang harus kauangkat atasmu. Dari tengah-tengah saudara-saudaramu haruslah engkau mengangkat seorang raja atasmu; seorang asing yang bukan saudaramu tidaklah boleh kauangkat atasmu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
maka hendaklah kamu mengangkat raja atas kamu akan orang yang akan dipilih oleh Tuhan, Allahmu; dari tengah-tengah segala saudaramu hendaklah kamu mengangkat akan seorang raja atas kamu, tetapi tak boleh kamu mengangkat atas kamu akan orang lain bangsa, yang bukan dari pada segala saudaramu.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ When thou art come vnto the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee, and enioyest it, and dwellest therin, and if thou shalt say, I wyll set a king ouer me, lyke as all the nations that are about me: ¹⁵ Then thou shalt make hym king ouer thee whom the Lorde thy God shall choose: Euen one from among thy brethren shalt thou make kyng ouer thee, and thou mayest not set a straunger ouer thee, which is not of thy brethren. ¹⁶ But he shall not multiplie horses to hym selfe, nor bryng the people agayne to Egypt to increase the number of horses: forasmuch as the Lorde hath sayde vnto you, ye shall hencefoorth go no more agayne that way. ¹⁷ Also he ought not to multiplie wyues to him selfe, lest his heart turne away, neither shall he gather hym siluer and golde to much. ¹⁸ And when he is set vpon the seate of his kingdome, he shall write hym out a copie of this lawe in a booke before the priestes the Leuites: ¹⁹ And it shalbe with hym, and he ought to reade therin all the dayes of his life, that he may learne to feare the Lorde his God, and to kepe all the wordes of this lawe and these ordinaunces, for to do them: ²⁰ And that his heart arise not aboue his brethren, and that he turne not from the commaundement to the right hand or to the left: but that he may prolong his dayes in his kyngdome, he and his children in the middes of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whom: 1 Samuel 9:15-17, 1 Samuel 10:24, 1 Samuel 16:12, 1 Samuel 16:13, 2 Samuel 5:2, 1 Chronicles 12:23, 1 Chronicles 22:10, 1 Chronicles 28:5, Psalms 2:2, Psalms 2:6

from among: Jeremiah 30:21, Matthew 22:17

not set: Jeremiah 2:25

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 8:5 - now make 2 Samuel 5:1 - we 1 Kings 1:5 - I will 2 Kings 10:3 - Look even 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Behold 1 Chronicles 28:2 - my brethren Luke 20:22 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 17:5
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shalbe called Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made thee.

Genesis 32:28
He sayde: thy name shalbe called no more Iacob, but Israel: For as a prince hast thou wrasteled with God, and with men, and hast preuayled.

2 Samuel 12:25
And had sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet: therefore he called his name Iedidia, of the Lordes behalfe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee whom the Lord thy God shall choose,.... The Jews take this to be a command to set a king over them: whereas it is only a permission in case they should desire and determine on having one, as God foresaw they would; and this with a limitation and restriction to appoint none but whom God should choose, and which was their duty and interest to attend unto; for none could choose better for them, and was what he had a right unto, and it became them to submit to it, since he was their King in a civil and special sense, and another was only his viceregent; accordingly we find, when they expressed their desire to have a king in the time of Samuel, and it was granted, though not without some resentment, the Lord chose their first king for them, Saul, and, after him, David, and even Solomon, David's son; and though, in later times, they appointed kings without consulting him, it is complained of, Hosea 8:4 hence this clause is prefaced in the Targum of Jonathan,

"ye shall seek instruction from the Lord, and after set him king, c.''

which was to be done by the mouth of a prophet, or by Urim, as Aben Ezra observes:

one from among thy brethren shall thou set king over thee: that is, one of their own nation, an Israelite, a brother both by nation and religion:

thou mayest not set a stranger over thee that is not thy brother one of another nation, that is not of the family of Israel, as Aben Ezra notes, even not an Edomite, though called sometimes their brother; and Herod, who was an Idumean, was set up, not by them, but by the Romans; now in this their king was a type of the King Messiah, of whom it is said, "their nobles shall be of themselves", Jeremiah 30:21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The king, like the judges and officers (compare Deuteronomy 16:18), is to be chosen by the people; but their choice is to be in accordance with the will of God, and to be made from among “their brethren.” Compare 1 Samuel 9:15; 1Sa 10:24; 1 Samuel 16:1; 1 Kings 19:16.

Thou mayest not set a stranger over thee - The Jews extended this prohibition to all offices whatsoever (compare Jeremiah 30:21); and naturally attached the greatest importance to it: from where the significance of the question proposed to our Lord, “Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar?” Matthew 22:17. A Gentile head for the Jewish people, which it was a principal aim of the Law to keep special and distinct from others, was an anomaly.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 17:15. One from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee — It was on the ground of this command that the Jews proposed that insidious question to our Lord, Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, OR NO? Matthew 22:17; for they were then under the authority of a foreign power. Had Christ said Yes, then they would have condemned him by this law; had he said No, then they would have accused him to Caesar. See this subject discussed in great detail in the notes, Matthew 22:16, &c.