Deuteronomy 17:4

If you hear such a report, you need to make a full investigation. If you find out that the report is true, and that such an awful sin has been committed in Israel,

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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

3This person has done this by going to worship other gods, bowing down to them—or to the sun, moon, or any of the stars of heaven—which I have ordered you not to do.

5you must have the man or woman who has committed this terrible act taken outside the town and stoned to death.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:12It may happen that once you're living in the towns the Lord your God is giving you, you hear

Deuteronomy 13:15then you have to kill the people living in that town with the sword. Set apart for destruction its people and its livestock.

Proverbs 25:2God's greatness is in doing things that can't be known, while the greatness of kings is in revealing things.

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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