King: Precepts Concerning

When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” …

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,

…lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons as an inheritance, it will belong to his descendants. It will become their property by inheritance. …