Deuteronomy 17

This portion of scripture covers some additional regulations for worship and legal recourse, plus a mention of how a future king over the Israelites should act. I find that particularly interesting, because my understanding before tonight was that the idea of a king didn't come up until the Israelites started to beg for one a few hundred years later (after the time of the judges). Perhaps I am getting my ancient history mixed up, or maybe this was just a prediction of the demand for a ruler that the people would make in the distant future. Either way, I really like the limits placed on a king: no personal accumulation of massive wealth, wives, or armies.