Deuteronomy 17:15 “you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God sha…”

Deuteronomy 17:15

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.

World English Bible

you shall surely set him whom the LORD your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

American Standard Version

thou shalt surely set him king over thee, whom Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then thou shalt make him King ouer thee, whome the Lord thy God shall chuse: from among thy brethren shalt thou make a King ouer thee: thou shalt not set a stranger ouer thee, which is not thy brother.

Darby Translation

thou shalt only set him king over thee whom Jehovah thy God will choose: from among thy brethren shalt thou set a king over thee; thou mayest not set a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.

Young's Literal Translation

thou dost certainly set over thee a king on whom Jehovah doth fix; from the midst of thy brethren thou dost set over thee a king; thou art not able to set over thee a stranger, who is not thy brother.

Bible in Basic English

Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.

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Cross references

“whom”

1 Chronicles 22:10 1 Samuel 9:15–17 1 Samuel 10:24 1 Chronicles 12:23 2 Samuel 5:2 Psalm 2:2

1 Chronicles 22:10 · BSB

He is the one who will build a house for My Name. He will be My son, and I will be his Father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’

1 Samuel 9:15–17 · BSB

Now on the day before Saul’s arrival, the LORD had revealed to Samuel,

1 Samuel 10:24 · BSB

Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

1 Chronicles 12:23 · BSB

Now these are the numbers of men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul’s kingdom over to him, in accordance with the word of the LORD:

2 Samuel 5:2 · BSB

Even in times past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And to you the LORD said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’”

Psalm 2:2 · BSB

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:

“from among”

Jeremiah 30:21 Matthew 22:17

Jeremiah 30:21 · BSB

Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.

Matthew 22:17 · BSB

So tell us what You think: Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

“not set”

Jeremiah 2:25

Jeremiah 2:25 · BSB

You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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,”

16But 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.’

Read Deuteronomy 17