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Deuteronomy chapter 17 verses 14 through 20.

When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and you possess it and dwell on it and then say I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me

You may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose

One for among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you who is not your brother.

Only he must not acquire many horses for himself, or cause the people to return to Egypt in order

to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, you shall never return that way again.

And he shall not acquire many wives for himself lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire

for himself excessive silver and gold.

And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests, and it shall be with him, and he shall read it in all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God

by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes and doing them, that his heart may not be lifted up

above his brothers, and that heart may not be lifted up above his brothers,

and that he may not turn aside from the commandment,

either to the right hand or to the left,

so that he may continue long in his kingdom,

he and his children, in Israel.

Now as we are praying leading up to a presidential election in the United States,

I want to be careful in reading from

Deuteronomy to make sure it's clear this is a unique time in Old

Testament history when God is speaking about a king among his people and how that king should rule and lead in the

structure of the people of Israel. And we want to be careful when we're reading the Old Testament not to just put in the United

States and the place of Israel here and think, okay, so this is what we should do and all

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