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Deuteronomy 17:6-7

DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON Deuteronomy 17:6 On the evidence of... witnesses. The standard biblical requirement for finding someone guilty of a capital offense is two witnesses (Numbers 35:30). See Deuteronomy 19:16 on penalties for false witnesses. Insisting that the hand of the witnesses shall be first to stone the guilty helps prevent false testimony and adds seriousness to their testimony (compare Deuteronomy 13:9). purge the evil. See Deuteronomy 13:5 and note.

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See also Deuteronomy 17:6-7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 17:6. _TWO WITNESSES_] ONE might be deceived, or be prejudiced or malicious; therefore God required _two_ substantial witnesses for the support of the charge....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Compare Deuteronomy 13:1 ff. Here special reference is made to the legal forms to be adopted, Deuteronomy 17:5. The sentence was to be carried into effect at “the gates” (compare Genesis 19:1 note)

  • 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

    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

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MOUTH. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), put for the witness borne by it. App-6. TWO. Compare Numbers 35:30, and see Mat 18:16. 2 Corinthians 13:1; 1 Timothy 5:19....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Deuteronomy 16:21 to Deuteronomy 17:7. Isolated Group of Laws on Worship This group of laws against heathen symbols and blemished sacrifices and the worship of other gods all of them abominations to,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _At the mouth of two witnesses or_ AT THE MOUTH _of three witnesses_ So Sam. and LXX, as in Deuteronomy 19:15, where the law, here applied to a particular case, is more generally stated. Cp. P, Number...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Against Worshippers of Other Gods If such be found in any of thy gates, and their crime established, they shall be stoned (Deuteronomy 17:2-5); only at the mouth of two witnesses shall any one be put...

  • 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 HATH GONE AND SERVED OTHER GODS, AND WORSHIPPED THEM, EITHER THE SUN, OR MOON, OR ANY OF THE HOST OF HEAVEN, WHICH I HAVE NOT COMMANDED;_ 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Deuteronomy 17:2. EVERY IDOLATER TO BE STONED. (2) IF THERE BE FOUND... MAN OR WOMAN. — This section differs slightly from the third section of Deuteronomy 13. The penalty there is directed against th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עַל ־פִּ֣י ׀ שְׁנַ֣יִם עֵדִ֗ים אֹ֛ו שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה...

  • 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

    Slain. When the action was public, this formality was not requisite, chap. xiii. 9. --- Him. One witness was never admitted to prove any crime; neither would the Jews receive for witnesses, women, inf...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe, how tenacious the LORD GOD was of his people's faithfulness, and how exemplary the punishment of idolatry. Oh! that many in the present hour, who are tempting the Israel of GOD by apostacy, w...

  • 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

    As His severity in exacting punishment, where murder has been unquestionably committed, shows how highly God rates the life of men, so the qualification, which we find here, declares, that he takes eq...

  • 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

    AT THE MOUTH OF TWO WITNESSES, OR THREE WITNESSES, SHALL HE THAT IS WORTHY OF DEATH BE PUT TO DEATH,.... The idolater found guilty was to be stoned; two witnesses were sufficient to prove a fact, if t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; [but] at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. Ver. 8. _Too hard for thee in judg...

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

    _Witnesses_ Namely, credible and competent witnesses. The Jews rejected the testimonies of children, women, servants, familiar friends, or enemies, persons of dissolute lives or evil fame....

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses, that is, on the basis of their testimony, SHALL HE THAT IS WORTHY OF DEATH BE PUT TO DEATH; BUT AT THE MOUTH OF ONE WITNESS HE SHALL NOT BE PUT TO DEA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY...

  • 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

    1-7 No creature which had any blemish was to be offered in sacrifice to God. We are thus called to remember the perfect, pure, and spotless sacrifice of Christ, and reminded to serve God with the bes...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AT THE MOUTH, i.e. upon the testimony delivered upon oath before the magistrates. THREE WITNESSES, to wit, credible and competent witnesses. The Jews rejected the testimonies of madmen. children, wome...

  • 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 17:6 death H4191 (H8714) death H4191 (H8801) testimony H6310 two H8147 H5707 three H7969 witnesse

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ANYONE FOUND WORSHIPPING OTHER GODS WAS TO BE STONED TO DEATH, BUT ONLY AFTER CAREFUL ENQUIRY (DEUTERONOMY 17:2). The reference to the abominations of Asherah, Pillar and blemished offerings leads on...

  • 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 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

    1 Timothy 5:19; 2 Corinthians 13:1; Deuteronomy 19:15; Hebrews 10:28;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Witnesses — Namely, credible and competent witnesses. The Jews rejected the testimonies of children, women, servants, familiar friends or enemies, persons of dissolute lives or evil fame....

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