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So you must purge the evil from among you.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">Courts of Law<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give you a verdict in the case. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will no longer behave arrogantly. <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">Guidelines for a King<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_samuel/8.htm">1 Samuel 8:1–9</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When 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,” <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’ <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold. <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Cited in <a href="../1_corinthians/5.htm#13">1 Corinthians 5:13</a><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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