Deuteronomy 13:9

but thou shalt slay, him, thine own hand, shall be on him first, to put him to death,—and the hand of all the people afterwards.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

8thou shalt not consent unto him, neither shalt thou hearken unto him,—neither shall thine eye look with pity upon him, neither shalt thou spare—neither shalt thou conceal him;

10And thou shalt stone him with stones that he die,—for he hath sought to seduce thee from Yahweh thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:16and thou shalt devour all the peoples whom, Yahweh thy God, is delivering up unto thee, thine eye shall not look with pity upon them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, for a snare, would it be unto thee.

Deuteronomy 25:12then shalt thou cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity.

Luke 14:26If anyone cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, further also, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Acts 7:58And, thrusting him forth outside the city, proceeded to stone him. And, the witnesses, laid their garments at the feet of a young man named 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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