Deuteronomy 17:4

If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;

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In The King James Version

And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

In Context

3By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;

5Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:12And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving you for your resting-place,

Deuteronomy 13:15Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.

Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 17:2-8

The Punishment of Idolatry. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God. 2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of… Read the whole commentary →

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