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Blessed be the LORD your God, who delighted in you and set you on his throne to be king for the LORD your God, because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”
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Verse 8. King of the Lord. Hence the style, “By the grace of God, king of England,” and so forth has been adopted. Those deserve the name, who rule according to God’s will. Worthington.—The kings of the Jews were more properly lieutenants of God, as the government was a theocracy. Calmet. 13:8. and so forth
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