Deuteronomy 17:13

All the people must hear and fear, and act arrogantly no more.

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

In Context

12Anyone who acts arrogantly, in not listening to the priest who is standing to serve before Yahweh your God, or in not listening to the judge—that man will die; you will put away the evil from Israel.

14When you have come to the land that Yahweh your God gives you, and when you take possession of it and begin to live in it, and then you say, 'I will set a king over myself, like all the nations that are round about me,'

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:11All Israel will hear and fear, and will not continue to do this kind of wickedness among you.

Deuteronomy 19:20Then those who remain will hear and fear, and will from then on commit no longer any such 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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