Deuteronomy 17:20

Revised Standard Version

that his heart may not be lifted up above his brethren, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left; so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:23

For all his ordinances were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.

1 Kings 11:34

Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

1 Kings 11:36

Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.

1 Kings 15:3

And he walked in all the sins which his father did before him; and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.

1 Kings 15:5

because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

1 Kings 2:3

and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;

2 Kings 10:30

And the Lord said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.”

2 Kings 14:10

You have indeed smitten Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”

2 Chronicles 25:19

You say, ‘See, I have smitten Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home; why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he was strong he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was false to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 33:12

And when he was in distress he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 33:19

And his prayer, and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.

2 Chronicles 33:23

And he did not humble himself before the Lord, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.

2 Chronicles 34:27

because your heart was penitent and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me, and have rent your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the Lord.

Psalm 119:102

I do not turn aside from thy ordinances, for thou hast taught me.

Psalm 132:12

If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies which I shall teach them, their sons also for ever shall sit upon your throne.”

Psalm 19:11

Moreover by them is thy servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

Proverbs 10:27

The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.

Proverbs 27:24

for riches do not last for ever; and does a crown endure to all generations?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Isaiah 2:12

For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up and high;

Habakkuk 2:4

Behold, he whose soul is not upright in him shall fail, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

2 Corinthians 12:7

And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated.

Deuteronomy 12:25

You shall not eat it; that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:28

Be careful to heed all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you for ever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 12:32

“Everything that I command you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to it or take from it.

Deuteronomy 17:11

according to the instructions which they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the verdict which they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.

Deuteronomy 4:2

You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it; that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

Deuteronomy 5:32

You shall be careful to do therefore as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

Deuteronomy 8:2

And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise you that are younger be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Samuel 10:25

Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship; and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”