Deuteronomy 17:13

and all the people hear and fear, and do not presume anymore.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12And the man who acts with presumption, so as not to listen to the priest (who is standing to serve your God YHWH there), or to the judge, even that man has died, and you have put away evil from Israel,

14When you come into the land which your God YHWH is giving to you, and have possessed it, and dwelt in it, and you have said, Let me set a king over me like all the nations which [are] around me—

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:11and all Israel hears and fears, and does not add to do like this evil thing in your midst.

Deuteronomy 19:20and those who are left hear and fear, and do not add to do according to this evil thing in your midst anymore.

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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