Deuteronomy 17:8-15

⁸If 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.

⁹You 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.

¹⁰You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you,

¹¹according 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.

¹²But 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.

¹³Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will no longer behave arrogantly.

¹⁴When 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,”

¹⁵you 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.

— Deuteronomy 17:8-15

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Cross References for Deuteronomy 17:8-15

• Jeremiah 30:21
• Haggai 2:11
• Malachi 2:7
• 1 Samuel 8:19-20
• 1 Chronicles 22:10
• Deuteronomy 13:11
• Deuteronomy 12:5
• Ezekiel 44:24
• 1 Samuel 9:15-17
• 1 Samuel 10:24

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