15 you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.
Deuteronomy 17:15
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Deuteronomy 18:14–16
14 Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so. 15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him. 16 This is what you ask…
1 Samuel 12:12–14
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1 Samuel 8:8–10
8 Just as they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking Me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. 9 Now listen to them, but you must solemnly warn them and show them the manner of the king who will reign over them.”
Deuteronomy 16:17–19
17 Everyone must appear with a gift as he is able, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. 18 You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous j…
1 Samuel 12:1–2
1 Then Samuel said to all Israel, “I have listened to your voice in all that you have said to me, and I have set over you a king. 2 Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my yout…
Deuteronomy 1:12–14
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1 Kings 1:34–36
34 There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. You are to blow the ram’s horn and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’ 35 Then you shall go up with him, and he is to come and sit on my throne and reign in my place. For I have appo…
1 Chronicles 28:3–5
3 but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for My Name, because you are a man of war who has spilled blood.’ 4 Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from th…
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