Deuteronomy 17:14-15

Laws Concerning Israel’s Kings

14“When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, a‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ 15you may indeed set a king over you bwhom the Lord your God will choose. One cfrom among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
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