Deuteronomy 17:15
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.
Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
you shall surely set him whom the Lord your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
thou shalt surely set him king over thee, whom Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- whom
- 1 Samuel 9:15–17; 1 Samuel 10:24; 1 Samuel 16:12, 13; 2 Samuel 5:2; 1 Chronicles 12:23; 1 Chronicles 22:10; 1 Chronicles 28:5; Psalm 2:2, 6
- from among
- Jeremiah 30:21; Matthew 22:17
- not set
- Jeremiah 2:25