[If] someone [close] to him dies, he does not leave the entrance of his palace. R’ Yehudah says: If he wishes to go out after the bier he may go out, for so we find concerning David that he went out after the bier of Abner, as it is stated: And King Da-vid followed the bier. They said to him: This was only to placate the people. When they feed him the mourner’s meal, all the people sit on the floor and he sits on the dargash.

He may wage a discretionary war with the consent of the court of seventy-one. He may break through to make a path for himself and no one may impede him. The king’s path has no limits. All the people plunder and place [it] before him, and he takes the first portion.  Let him not take for himself many wives —- only eighteen. R’ Yehudah says: He may take for himself [even] many, as long as they do not turn his heart. R’ Shimon says: Even one, if she turns his heart, he may not marry her. If so, why does it say: Let him not take for himself many wives? Even [if they are] like Abigail. Let him not accumulate for himself many horses —- only enough for his chariots. And silver and gold let him not accumulate for himself greatly —- only enough to pay his troops. He writes a Torah scroll for himself —- [when] he goes out to war, he takes it with him; [when] he returns, he brings it back with him; [when] he sits in judgment, it is with him; [when] he reclines, it is before him; as it is stated: And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life.