In Deuteronomy 17, as Moses is speaking to the people, he relays God's command for the future kings in Israel (which is fascinating in its own right) to do the following:
"When he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, that his heart many not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel." (Deut 17:18-20, ESV)

As I've heard it said, how different would Israel's history had been if all the kings had actually obeyed this command to sit down upon ascending to the throne and write out in their own hand, a copy of the Scriptures, and then read it daily.