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you shall surely set him whom the LORD your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
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Verse 15. Choose, as he did Saul, David, and Solomon, who succeeded to the throne of his father, though he was not the eldest son. Menochius.—Then the throne began to be hereditary, in virtue of God’s promise to David. Calmet.—Brother. The Jews neglected this law, when they willingly recognized the authority of Herod, two years after the birth of Christ. See Genesis 49:10. Bible.—A stranger might attempt to draw off the people from the service of the true God, and mutual love would not so easily subsist between them. Menochius.
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