Denizen Dev (@DenizenDev)

This passage was written for Christians (the Israel of God). Let every king study both of God's books: Creation (see Job) and Scripture (see below). Then he will be equipped to judge as God's avenger (Romans 13). Notice also that this passage teaches that our Bibles should be produced by copying manuscripts from the hands of Christians—the Royal Priesthood (1 Peter 2). Let us therefore not use the manuscripts of those who reject God the Word and who thus deny His written Word. """ Now if you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you and take possession of it and live in it and you say, “I will set a ruler over me, like the rest of the nations that are around me,” by appointing, you shall appoint over you a ruler, him whom the Lord your God may choose. One of your own brothers you shall appoint as ruler over you; you shall not have power to appoint a strange person over you, because he is not your brother. For he shall not multiply cavalry for himself or return the people to Egypt in order to multiply cavalry for himself, but the Lord has said to you, “You shall never add to return that way.” And he shall not multiply wives for himself, neither shall his heart turn away; also silver and gold he shall not multiply exceedingly for himself. And it shall be, when he has sat upon the seat of his rule, that he shall write for himself this second law in a book from the priests, the Leuites. And it shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all these commandments and these statutes to do them so that his heart may not be exalted above his brothers so that he not turn aside from the commandments, right or left, in order that he be long-lived in his rule, he and his sons among the sons of Israel. """ —Deuteronomy 17:14–20 (New English Translation of the Septuagint)