Deuteronomy 17:20
Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:32
So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.

1 Kings 15:5
For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Psalm 119:102
I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me.

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his heart

Deuteronomy 8:2, 13, 14
Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments. . . .

2 Kings 14:10
You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Glory in that and stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall--you and Judah with you?"

2 Chronicles 25:19
You have said, 'Look, I have defeated Edom, ' and your heart has become proud and boastful. Now stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall--you and Judah with you?"

2 Chronicles 26:16
But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 32:25, 26
But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem. . . .

2 Chronicles 33:12, 19
And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers. . . .

2 Chronicles 34:27
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you, ' declares the LORD.

Psalm 131:1, 2
My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great matters or things too lofty for me. . . .

Isaiah 2:12
For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted--it will be humbled--

Daniel 5:20-23
But when his heart was exalted and his spirit hardened in pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him. . . .

Habakkuk 2:4
Look at the proud one; His soul is not upright--But the righteous will live by his faith--

2 Corinthians 12:7
or with these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

1 Peter 5:5
Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

he turn

Deuteronomy 4:2
You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God I am giving you.

Deuteronomy 5:32
So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.

Deuteronomy 12:25, 28, 32
Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD. . . .

1 Kings 15:5
For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

right hand

Deuteronomy 17:11
according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.

1 Samuel 13:13, 14
"You have acted foolishly, " Samuel declared. "You have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you; if you had, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time. . . .

1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king."

1 Kings 11:12, 13, 34, 36
Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son. . . .

2 Kings 10:30
Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel."

Psalm 19:11
By them indeed Your servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.

Psalm 132:12
If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever."

Proverbs 27:24
for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.

Ecclesiastes 8:13
Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

that he

Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be shortened.

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