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Deuteronomy 17:13

And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously, be deterred from choosing a similar insolent course. Christian pastors should remember that it is their duty to teach their congregation the Word of God, to make Holy Writ both the norm of doctrine and the rule of life.

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See also Deuteronomy 17:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The cases in question are such as the inferior judges did not feel able to decide satisfactorily, and which accordingly they remitted to their superiors (compare Exodus 18:23). The Supreme court Deute...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    13. JUSTICE AND THE CHOICE OF A KING Chapter S 16:18-17:20 _ 1. Appointment of judges and their instruction (Deuteronomy 16:18; Deuteronomy 17:1)_ 2. The higher court at the place He chooses ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A central tribunal to be established (at Jerusalem) to try cases too hard for the local courts (Deuteronomy 16:18); see Deuteronomy 1:9 *. Deuteronomy 17:8. Two (three?) sample cases are mentioned, vi...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DEUTERONOMY 16:21- DEUTERONOMY 17:7. LAWS DEMANDING PURE WORSHIP AND SUITABLE SACRIFICES. This breaks the connexion; its proper place is probably between Deuteronomy 12 and Deuteronomy 13. Deuterono

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Of the Judges of Final Appeal Local cases too hard for the local courts (see Deuteronomy 16:18-20, on which this passage immediately follows) are to be taken before the Priests, the Levites at the Sa...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _hear, and fear_ Deuteronomy 13:11 (12)....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 13. _AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL HEAR,_ &C.— This punishment was inflicted for an example and severe warning to those who were yet innocent; as Seneca observes, _nemo prudens punit quia peccatum e...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    Deuteronomy 17:2-13 2 If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LESSON FOURTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:18-20; DEUTERONOMY 17:2 TO DEUTERONOMY 18:22 e. THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THOU SHALT COME UNTO THE PRIESTS THE LEVITES, AND UNTO THE JUDGE THAT SHALL BE IN THOSE DAYS, AND INQUIRE; AND THEY SHALL SHEW THEE THE SENTENCE OF JUDGMENT:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY. CONTROVERSIES TO BE SETTLED BY PRIESTS AND JUDGES. ELECTION AND DUTIES OF A KING 1. Cp. Leviticus 22:17....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 17 V1 ‘If any sheep or *cattle are not perfect, do not *sacrifice them to the *LORD your God. Th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ כָל ־הָ עָ֖ם יִשְׁמְע֣וּ וְ יִרָ֑אוּ

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Continuing the discourse commenced in the previous chapter, we find insistence on the fact that no false sacrifices must be offered and no false worshipers permitted to approach. For dealing with such...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Pride. Hebrew, "do presumptuously," as the Protestants translate. How will they excuse their leaders, Luther, &c., and themselves, from this grievous charge? If the person, who presumed to assert tha...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The apostle Paul from the case of the presumptuous man here noticed, takes occasion to draw a very striking inference in his Epistle to the Hebrews, in those who tread underfoot the SON of GOD, and co...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._And all the people. _He shews from the object of the enactment why the proud despisers (of the priests) were not to be spared; for punishments have reference to common example, whilst, on the othe...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Verse 18 [from Chapter 16] (Deuteronomy 16:18) begins a new subject: the pains taken, and the instruments used, to preserve the blessing and execute the judgments necessary to that effect. The thought...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL HEAR, AND FEAR,.... All the people of Israel in their own cities, and particularly the judges in those cities; they shall hear of what is done to the obstinate and disobedient...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _When thou shalt say, I will set a king over me_ He only foresees and foretels what they would do, but does not hereby signify that he should approve of it. Yea, when they did this thing, for the very...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The things sacrificed must bee sound. 2 Idolaters must bee slaine. 8 Hard controuersies are to bee determined by the Priests and Iudges. 12 The contemner of that Determination must die. 14 The e...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT (This Continues the subject of) (chap.16:13 to 17:11) This continues the subject of righteous government. The guilt of offering a blemished sacrifice to the Lord must incur sev...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-13 Courts of judgment were to be set up in every city. Though their judgment had not the Divine authority of an oracle, it was the judgment of wise, prudent, experienced men, and had the advantage o...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    We must remember that the division of scripture into Chapter s and verses is entirely a human arrangement, often very convenient, no doubt, for reference; but not infrequently it is quite unwarrantabl...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 17:13 people H5971 hear H8085 (H8799) fear H3372 (H8799) presumptuously H2102 (H8686) shall hear -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PLACE OF FINAL APPEAL (DEUTERONOMY 17:8). But if a case was brought which was too hard for the local justices to decide, there was to be a final place of appeal made up of the levitical priests an...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Laws concerning idolaters and obedience to authority and kings. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God would possess men with a dread of that sin worshipping false gods which is a sin in...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 17:3. _Either sun or moon._ This would be going back to Sabianism, which from the dispersion of Babel became the religion of Asia, as stated in Job 1:15. Deuteronomy 17:8. A matter too har...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations._ HEATHEN ABOMINATIONS AVOIDED One reason to shun the practices of idolatry springs from the nature of the evils themselves. 1. Th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 17:10 The decision of the central sanctuary court is final. THAT MAN SHALL DIE. Refusal to follow the ruling of the court is itself a capital offense, for it is a rejec...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL REMARKS.—Israel not only had tendency to idolatry, but inclination to offer animals with faults and to transgress the laws of worship. _Blemishes_ named in Leviticus 22. Deuteronomy 17:2. Ido...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION SACRIFICES TO BE OF ANIMALS UNBLEMISHED. IDOLATERS TO BE SOUGHT OUT, CONVICTED, AND PUT TO DEATH. THE HIGHER JUDICIAL COURT

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    As you've discovered by now the book of Deuteronomy is sort of a review of the law. The word itself indicates the second law. It is a review by Moses for the people. Really a final review because Mose...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 13:11; Deuteronomy 19:20; Numbers 15:30; Numbers 15:31...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    When thou shalt — He only foresees and foretells what they would do, but doth not approve of it. Yea when they did this thing for this very reason, he declares his utter dislike of it, 1 Samuel 8:7....

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