Deuteronomy 17:14

WEB

¹⁴When you have come to the land which the LORD your God gives 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,”

KJV

¹⁴¶ When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;

BSB

¹⁴When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”

FBV

¹⁴After you've entered the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it over and settled in it, and you decide, “Let's have a king to rule over us like all the other nations around us do,”

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Extra References

1 Samuel 8:19-20

¹⁹But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us, ²⁰that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”

1 Samuel 12:19

¹⁹All the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a king.”

Joshua 1:13

¹³“Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, ‘The LORD your God gives you rest, and will give you this land.

1 Samuel 8:5-7

⁵They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.” ⁶But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to the LORD.

⁷The LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.

Deuteronomy 7:1

¹When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;

Deuteronomy 26:1

¹It shall be, when you have come in to the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it,

Deuteronomy 26:9

⁹and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 18:9

⁹When you have come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations.

Deuteronomy 12:9-10

⁹for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God gives you. ¹⁰But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety,

Deuteronomy 11:31

³¹For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it.