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CHAPTER VII
THE BOOK
OF LIFE-GIVING KNOWLEDGE
HE destruction of Jerusalem and of so many
of its inhabitants in the year 607 B .C . was
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largely due to the king's failure to read and
heed the words of the book of life-giving knowledge,
the Bible. Centuries before the setting of a
human king over his chosen people Jehovah in
his foresight moved the prophet Moses to write
these words for the king's guidance :
2 "When you reach the land that the LORD your
God is giving you, and occupy it, and settle down
in it, and then declare, I must place a king over
me like all the nations surrounding me,' you must
be sure to make him king over you whom the
LORD your God chooses . You must make one of
your own countrymen king over you ; you may
not put a foreigner over you, who is not a countryman
of yours . . . . As soon as he has taken
his seat on his royal throne, he must write for
himself in a book a copy of this code as approved
by the Levitical priests ; he must keep it with
him, and peruse it all the days of his life, that
he may learn to stand in awe of the LORD his God,
by being careful to observe all the provisions of
this code and these statutes, that he may not consider
himself more exempt than his fellowcountrymen,
and that he may not swerve from
1, 2. Through neglect of what provision was the kingdom
overturned?
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