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Deuteronomy
Chapter 17
1
You shall not sacrifice
unto
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead
any
bullock, or sheep,
wherein
is blemish, or any evil-favouredness.
For
that is an abomination
unto
Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead.
2
If there be found among you,
within
any of your gates
which
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead gives you,
man
or woman, that has wrought wickedness
in
the sight of Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead,
in
transgressing His covenant, 3
and
has gone and served other gods/elohiym,
and
worshipped them,
either
the sun, or moon,
or
any of the host of heaven,
which
I have not commanded.
4
And it be told you,
and
you have heard of it,
and
inquired diligently,
and,
behold, it be true, and the thing certain,
that
such abomination is wrought in Israel.
5
Then shall you bring forth that man or that woman,
who
have committed that wicked thing,
unto
your gates, even that man or that woman,
and
shall stone them with stones, till they die.
6
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses,
shall
he that is worthy of death be put to death;
but
at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
7
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him
to
put him to death,
and
afterward the hands of all the people.
So
you shall put the evil away from among you.
8
If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment,
between
blood and blood, between plea and plea,
and
between stroke and stroke,
being
matters of controversy within your gates.
Then
shall you arise, and get you up into the place
which
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead shall choose.
9
And you shall come unto the priests the Levites,
and
unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire;
and
they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
10
And you shall do according to the sentence,
which
they of that place which Jehovah/God
shall
choose shall show you;
and
you shall observe to do
according
to all that they inform you.
11
According to the sentence of the law
which
they shall teach you,
and
according to the judgment
which
they shall tell you,
you
shall do.
You
shall not decline from the sentence
which
they shall show you,
to
the right hand, nor to the left.
12
And the man that will do presumptuously,
and
will not 'hear, listen and obey' {shama'}
unto
the priest who stands to minister there
before
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead,
or
unto the judge, even that man shall die.
And
you shall put away the evil from Israel.
13
And all the people shall hear, and fear,
and
do no more presumptuously.
14~^When
you have come unto the land
which
Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead gives you,
{a gift - grace}
and
shall possess it,
and
shall dwell in prosperity therein,
I
shall say,
"I
will appoint a king over me,
like
as all the nations that are about me."
15~^"You
shall in any wise set him king over you,
whom
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead shall choose.
One
from among your brethren {must be a Jew}
shall
you set king over you.
You
may not set a stranger {gentile} over you,
who
is not of the same race/'your brother'."
16~^But
he shall not multiply horses to himself
{means have a close tie with Egypt since they raised horses},
nor
cause the people to return to Egypt
{for their assistance - mostly militarily},
to
the end that he should multiply horses.
Forasmuch
as Jehovah/God has said unto you,
You
shall henceforth return no more that way
{Jews were never to go back to their place of slavery in Egypt}."
{1st
Requirement of the King - Not to be Polygamist}
17a~~Neither
shall he
{from verse 15: king in view - the future king appointed by God}
multiply
wives to himself
{no polygamy for the future king},
that
his 'right lobe'/heart/'right lobe' turn not away [from God].
[Note: A king is required by God's Word to only have one wife. Solomon is a good example of what happens when a king has more than one wife. He had a thousand women in his harem and he was always searching for how to find happiness. Later in life, he returned to God and His Word and re-discovered happiness. A side note is that after the cross, there is no difference between male and female believers in Christ. We are all royalty. The Higher Walk (optimum relationship in phase II) as revealed in the New Testament appears to be one man with his one right woman.]
{Note: In I Samuel 25:43, David becomes a polygamist. He knows he is to be the next king of Israel so he should know he has violated God's law for him by taking a second and third wife etc. Click here to see more on sex and marriage.}
17b~~Neither
shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
18
And it shall be, when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom,
that
he shall write him a copy of this law
in
a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites.
19
And it shall be with him,
and
he shall read therein all the days of his life.
That
he may learn to fear Jehovah/God his Elohiym/Godhead,
to
guard/keep all the words/'doctrinal communications' {dabar}
of
this law and these statutes . . .
to
do them.
20
That his heart/'right lobe' be not lifted up above his brethren,
and
that he turn not aside from the commandment,
to
the right hand, or to the left.
To
the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom,
he,
and his children, in the midst of Israel.
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