Deuteronomy 13:14

Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

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Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

In Context

13That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge;

15Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 10:18Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.

1 Samuel 1:16Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain.

Isaiah 11:3And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:

1 Timothy 5:19Do not take as true any statement made against one in authority, but only if two or three give witness to it.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 13:13-18

12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; 14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with… Read the whole commentary →

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