Deuteronomy 17:13

Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will no longer behave arrogantly.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

In Context

12But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.

14When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:11Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.

Deuteronomy 19:20Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 17:9-14

The Authority of the Judges. ( b. c. 1451.) 8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose; 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the… Read the whole commentary →

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