Deuteronomy 17
World English Bible (WEB) • 20 verses
1You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.
RelatedDeuteronomy 15:21 · Malachi 1:8 · Deuteronomy 23:18 · Deuteronomy 24:4 · Malachi 1:13-14 · Leviticus 22:20-25
2If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in the LORD your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,
3and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,
RelatedJeremiah 7:31 · Jeremiah 32:35 · Jeremiah 19:5 · Jeremiah 7:22-23 · Job 31:26-27 · Deuteronomy 4:19
4and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,
5then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
RelatedLeviticus 24:14 · Joshua 7:25 · Leviticus 24:16 · Deuteronomy 13:10-11 · Deuteronomy 22:24 · Deuteronomy 22:21
6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
RelatedHebrews 10:28 · Numbers 35:30 · Matthew 18:16 · 1 Timothy 5:19 · Deuteronomy 19:15 · John 8:17-18
7The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
RelatedDeuteronomy 13:9 · 1 Corinthians 5:13 · Deuteronomy 17:12 · Deuteronomy 13:5 · Deuteronomy 19:19 · Judges 20:13
8If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.
RelatedDeuteronomy 12:5 · Haggai 2:11 · Deuteronomy 1:17 · Numbers 35:19-34 · Numbers 35:16 · Exodus 21:22
9You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.
10You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which the LORD chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you.
RelatedMatthew 22:2-3
11According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
RelatedJoshua 1:7 · Jude 1:8 · 2 Samuel 14:19 · Deuteronomy 28:14 · Deuteronomy 25:1 · Deuteronomy 17:20
12The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
RelatedNumbers 15:30 · Deuteronomy 13:5 · Deuteronomy 18:5 · Deuteronomy 17:7 · Deuteronomy 18:7 · 1 Timothy 5:20
13All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
14When you have come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,”
Related1 Samuel 8:19-20 · Joshua 1:13 · 1 Samuel 12:19 · 1 Samuel 8:5-7 · Deuteronomy 12:9-10 · Deuteronomy 11:31
15you shall surely set him whom the LORD your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
RelatedJeremiah 30:21 · 1 Chronicles 22:10 · 1 Chronicles 12:23 · 1 Samuel 10:24 · 1 Samuel 9:15-17 · 1 Samuel 16:12-13
16Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because the LORD has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”
17He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
RelatedNehemiah 13:26 · Proverbs 30:8-9 · Matthew 19:5 · 1 Kings 11:1-4 · Psalms 62:10 · Genesis 2:24
18It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
19It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
RelatedJoshua 1:8 · Psalms 119:97-100 · Psalms 1:2 · 2 Timothy 3:15-17 · John 5:39 · Deuteronomy 11:18
20that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.
Related1 Kings 15:5 · Deuteronomy 5:32 · Psalms 131:1-2 · Isaiah 2:12 · Daniel 5:20-23 · Ecclesiastes 8:13
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