The king must read
God's law
        and obey it
        each day

If that's good
for a king
       it must
       be good
       for all of us.

 
Provision will be made
      for those who kill
      another person
      unintentionally
There will be cities of refuge
      to protect the innocent

Capital punishment will be practiced
      as a means to eliminate
      evil from the land.



                       WHEN YOU ENTER THAT LAND
Crowning a king, shunning cults, protecting the innocent.
                              Deuteronomy 17, 18 & 19

    14"When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving
you, and dwell in it, and say, 'I will set a king over me like the
nations around me,' 15you shall surely set a king over you whom
the Lord your God chooses; one from among your brethren; you
may not set a foreigner over you.  16He shall not multiply horses
for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply
horses, for the Lord has said, 'You shall not return that way
again.'  17Neither shall he multiply wives for himself; nor shall
he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.
    18"When he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write
a copy of this law in a book.  19He shall read it all the days of
his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful
to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, 20that his
heart may not be lifted above his brethren, and he may not turn
aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left.
    9"When you come into the land, you shall not learn to follow
the abominations of those nations.  10There shall not be found
among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass
through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer,
or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11or one who
conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up
the dead.  14For these nations which you will dispossess listened
to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord Your God
has not appointed such for you.
    2"Separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land.
3You shall prepare roads, that any manslayer may flee there.
4And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there, that he
may live:  Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally-- 5as when
a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timber and his
hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the
head slips from the handle and strikes the neighbor so that he
dies--he shall flee to one of these cities and live; 6 lest the
avenger of blood, while his anger is hot, pursue the manslayer
and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him, though
he was not deserving of death.  7Therefore I command you,
'You shall separate three cities for yourself.'
    11"But if anyone hates his neighbor, and strikes him mortally,
and he flees to one of these cities, 12then the elders of his city
shall bring him from there, and deliver him to the avenger, that
he may die.  13You shall put away the guilt of innocent blood.'' 
              _{This Bible passage was condensed from the NKJV}

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