Deuteronomy 17

Deuteronomy 17:14-15

Deu. 17:14, 15. In what is said here about a king we have a plain instance of God’s suffering the people to do that which yet he did not approve of, parallel to the instance Christ mentioned, Matthew 19:8. For when the people did the very thing here spoken of, when they said, “I will set,” etc., God manifested His great disapprobation of it (1 Samuel 8:6-8; 1 Samuel 12:16-19).