Deuteronomy 17:20

Tree of Life Version

Then his heart will not be exalted above his brothers, and he will not turn from the commandment to the right or to the left—so that he may prolong his days in his kingship, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:23

For all His judgments are before me. As for His rulings, I do not turn away from them.

1 Kings 11:34

Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will keep him as a ruler all the days of his life for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, because he kept My mitzvot and My statutes.

1 Kings 11:36

To his son I will give one tribe so that My servant David may have a lamp every day before Me in Jerusalem, the city that I chose for Myself to put My Name there.

1 Kings 15:3

He walked in all the sins of his father which he had done before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to Adonai his God, like the heart of his father David.

1 Kings 15:5

For David did what was right in Adonai’s eyes 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

Keep the charge of Adonai your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His decrees, according to what is written in the Torah of Moses, so that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn

2 Kings 10:30

Now Adonai had said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in executing 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 will sit on the throne of Israel.”

2 Kings 14:10

You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become arrogant. Glory and stay at home! Why should you provoke trouble and cause your own downfall—you and Judah with you?”

2 Chronicles 25:19

You say, ‘Behold, I have defeated Edom.’ So now your heart has become arrogant and proud. Stay home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah with you?”

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he became strong, his heart grew so haughty that he acted corruptly. For he trespassed against Adonai his God by entering into the Temple of Adonai to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 33:12

In his distress, he entreated Adonai his God and greatly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer also, and how God was moved by his entreaty, all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherah poles and the carved images before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of Hozai.

2 Chronicles 33:23

He did not humble himself before Adonai as his father Manasseh had humbled himself. Instead Amon increased his guilt.

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 the inhabitants , and you humbled yourself before Me, tore your clothes, and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ says Adonai.

Psalm 119:102

I do not turn away from Your rulings, for You Yourself have taught me.

Psalm 132:12

if your children keep My covenant and My law that I will teach them, then their sons will sit on your throne forever.”

Psalm 19:11

They are more desirable than gold, yes, more than much pure gold! They are sweeter than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

Proverbs 10:27

The fear of Adonai prolongs life, but the years of the wicked are cut short.

Proverbs 27:24

for riches are not forever, nor a crown from generation to generation.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not go well with the wicked, and he will not lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God.

Isaiah 2:12

For the day of Adonai-Tzva’ot will be against anyone proud and haughty, against anyone lifted up—he will be humbled,

Habakkuk 2:4

Behold, the puffed up one— his soul is not right within him, But the righteous will live by his trust.

2 Corinthians 12:7

even in the extraordinary quality of the revelations. So that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me—a a messenger of satan to torment me, so I would not exalt myself.

Deuteronomy 12:25

You are not to eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in Adonai’s eyes.

Deuteronomy 12:28

Take care and listen to all these words that I am commanding you, so that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of Adonai your God.

Deuteronomy 17:11

You are to act according to the instruction they teach you and the judgment they tell you—you must not turn aside from the sentence they tell you, to the right or to the left.

Deuteronomy 4:2

You must not add to the word that I am commanding you or take away from it—in order to keep the mitzvot of Adonai your God that I am commanding you.

Deuteronomy 8:2

You are to remember all the way that Adonai your God has led you these 40 years in the wilderness—in order to humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His mitzvot or not.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Samuel 10:25

Then Samuel explained to the people the rules of kingship, wrote them in a scroll and placed it before Adonai. Then Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is like the sin of divination and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry. Since you have rejected Adonai’s word, He has also rejected you as king.”