Deuteronomy 17
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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.
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,

within any of thy gates The expression, `within any of thy gates,' denoted all residing in the cities, and all who went in and come out at the gates of them; so that it included the inhabitants of the whole land.

man

Deuteronomy 17:5 Then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed …

Deuteronomy 13:6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, …

Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, …

in transgressing

Deuteronomy 4:23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD …

Deuteronomy 29:25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the …

Deuteronomy 31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to …

Leviticus 26:15,25 And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, …

Joshua 7:11,15 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which …

Joshua 23:16 When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which …

Judges 2:20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said…

2 Kings 18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed …

Jeremiah 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the …

Ezekiel 16:39 And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down …

Hosea 6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they …

Hosea 8:1 Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle against …

Hebrews 8:9,10 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the …

And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
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;
And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:
And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

will do

Deuteronomy 13:5,11 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; …

Numbers 15:30 But the soul that does ought presumptuously, whether he be born in …

Ezra 10:8 And that whoever would not come within three days, according to the …

Psalm 19:13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not …

Hosea 4:4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as …

Matthew 10:14 And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you …

Hebrews 10:26-29 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge …

and will not hearken [heb] not to hearken

Jeremiah 25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, …

the priest

Deuteronomy 10:8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark …

Deuteronomy 18:5,7 For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand …

Luke 10:16 He that hears you hears me; and he that despises you despises me; …

John 12:48 He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges …

John 20:23 Whose soever sins you remit, they are remitted to them; and whose …

1 Thessalonians 4:2,8 For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus…

that man

Hebrews 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

thou shalt

Deuteronomy 17:7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, …

Deuteronomy 13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; …

Proverbs 21:11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the …

1 Timothy 5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

multiply horses Multiplying horses for chariots of war and cavalry, or for luxury, would increase the splendour of a monarch, and form a ground of confidence distinct from a proper confidence in God, and inconsistent with it, and with considering as the glory of Israel. Egypt abounded in horses; and the desire of multiplying these would induce the prince to encourage a trade with that kingdom; and this might make way the Israelites being again subjugated by the Egyptians, or at least corrupted by their idolatries and vices. Whereas, it was the command of God that they should no more return thither, but be totally detached from them. Besides, they might be tempted to extend their dominion by means of cavalry, and so get scattered among the surrounding idolatrous nations, and thus cease to be that distinct, separate people, which God intended they should be.

1 Samuel 8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign …

2 Samuel 8:4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, …

1 Kings 1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will …

1 Kings 4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, …

1 Kings 10:26-28 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a …

2 Chronicles 9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and …

Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember …

Isaiah 36:8,9 Now therefore give pledges, I pray you, to my master the king of …

Hosea 14:3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride on horses: neither will …

cause

Isaiah 31:1-3 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and …

Jeremiah 42:14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall …

Ezekiel 17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, …

Ye shall henceforth

Deuteronomy 28:68 And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the …

Exodus 13:17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God …

Exodus 14:13 And Moses said to the people, Fear you not, stand still, and see …

Numbers 14:3,4 And why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, …

Jeremiah 42:15,16 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, you remnant of Judah; …

Hosea 11:5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian shall …

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

that he shall

2 Kings 11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown on him, and …

a copy. Mishneh hattorah hazzoth, `a duplicate of this law.' translated by the Septuagint, (), this Deuteronomy. From this version, both the Vulgate and all the modern versions have taken the name of this book; and from it the original word, the Jews call it Mishneh.

out of that which

Deuteronomy 31:9,25,26 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons …

2 Kings 22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found …

2 Chronicles 34:15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found …

And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

his heart

Deuteronomy 8:2,13,14 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you …

2 Kings 14:10 You have indeed smitten Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: glory …

2 Chronicles 25:19 You say, See, you have smitten the Edomites; and your heart lifts …

2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: …

2 Chronicles 32:25,26 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done to …

2 Chronicles 33:12,19 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled …

2 Chronicles 34:27 Because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before …

Psalm 131:1,2 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise …

Isaiah 2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be on every one that is proud …

Daniel 5:20-23 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, …

Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the …

2 Corinthians 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance …

1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of …

he turn

Deuteronomy 4:2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall …

Deuteronomy 5:32 You shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded …

Deuteronomy 12:25,28,32 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your …

1 Kings 15:5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD…

right hand

Deuteronomy 17:11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach you, …

1 Samuel 13:13,14 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly: you have not kept …

1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as …

1 Kings 11:12,13,34,36 Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it for David your father's …

2 Kings 10:30 And the LORD said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing …

Psalm 19:11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there …

Psalm 132:12 If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall …

Proverbs 27:24 For riches are not for ever: and does the crown endure to every generation?

Ecclesiastes 8:13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong …

that he

Proverbs 10:27 The fear of the LORD prolongs days: but the years of the wicked shall …

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