Deuteronomy 13:9

But you surely kill him; your hand is on him in the first place to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

In Context

8you do not consent to him, nor listen to him, nor does your eye have pity on him, nor do you spare, nor do you cover him over.

10and you have stoned him with stones and he has died, for he has sought to drive you away from your God YHWH, who is bringing you out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:16And you have consumed all the peoples whom your God YHWH is giving to you; your eye has no pity on them, and you do not serve their gods, for it [is] a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 25:12then you have cut off her hand; your eye does not spare.

Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be My disciple;

Acts 7:58and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning [him]—and the witnesses put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul—

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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