Deu 17:14-20, 1Sa 8:11-18, Eze 45:9-10, 46:16-18, Rom 13:1-7, 1Ti 2:2 | ESV | STEP | 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 , I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,

Deuteronomy 17:14-20

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,’ 15 you 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. 16 Only he must not acquire many ^dhorses for himself or cause the people ^eto return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, ^f‘You shall never return that way again.’ 17 And he ^gshall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, ^hnor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.

18 “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, ⁱhe shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, ^japproved by ^{▼▼Hebrew from before} the Levitical priests. 19 And ^lit shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, ^mthat he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, 20 that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he ⁿmay not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, ^oso that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.

1 Samuel 8:11-18

11 He said, ^p“These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: ^qhe will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some ^rto plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 ^sHe will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. 15 He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants. 16 He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men ^{▼▼Septuagint cattle} and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 17 He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. 18 And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, ^ubut the Lord will not answer you in that day.”

Ezekiel 45:9-10

9 “Thus says the Lord God: ^vEnough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease ^wyour evictions of my people, declares the Lord God.

10 ^x“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath. ^{▼▼An ephah was about 3/5 of a bushel or 22 liters; a bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters}

Ezekiel 46:16-18

16 “Thus says the Lord God: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance. 17 But if he makes a gift ^zout of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to ^aathe year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance—it shall belong to his sons. 18 ^abThe prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, ^acthrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be ^adscattered from his property.”

Romans 13:1-7

Submission to the Authorities

1 Let every person ^aebe subject to the governing authorities. For ^afthere is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you ^agwill receive his approval, 4 for ^ahhe is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, ^aian avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also ^ajfor the sake of conscience. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 ^akPay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

1 Timothy 2:2

2 ^alfor kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and ^amdignified in every way.