Deuteronomy 17:14–20

¹⁴“When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you ^apossess it and live in it, and you say, ‘^bI will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,’

¹⁵you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses, one ^afrom among your ¹countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.

¹⁶“^aMoreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he ^bcause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since ^cthe Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never again return that way.’

¹⁷“^aHe shall not multiply wives for himself, ¹or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.

¹⁸“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 ^1ain the presence of the Levitical priests.

¹⁹“It shall be with him and he shall read it ^aall the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, ¹by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes,

²⁰that his heart may not be lifted up above his ¹countrymen ^aand that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.