Deuteronomy 13:12

If, in one of your cities which the Lord your God will give to you as a habitation, you hear someone say:

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In The King James Version

If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

In Context

11So may all of Israel, upon hearing this, be afraid, so that nothing like this will ever be done again.

13‘The sons of Belial have departed from your midst, and they have persuaded the inhabitants of their city, and they have said: “Let us go, and serve strange gods,”’ which you have not known:

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:20Then the others, upon hearing this, will be afraid, and they will by no means dare to do such things.

Joshua 22:11And when the sons of Israel had heard of it, and certain messengers had reported to them that the sons of Reuben, and of Gad, and of the one half tribe of Manasseh had built an altar in the land of Canaan, upon the hills of the Jordan, facing the sons of Israel,

Ezekiel 23:48And I will take away wickedness from the land. And all women shall learn not to act according to their wickedness.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 13:7-12

6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither… Read the whole commentary →

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