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Deuteronomy 17:8-13

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Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges

8 "If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to 1the place that the LORD your God will choose.
9 2And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and 3they shall declare to you the decision.
10 Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the LORD will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you.
11 According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.
12 The man who 4acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest 5who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So 6you shall purge the evil from Israel.
13 And all the people 7shall hear and fear and not act presumptuously again.
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Deuteronomy 17:8-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 17

This chapter begins with a caution not to sacrifice anything to the Lord that is blemished or ill favoured, De 17:1, an order is given to put to death men or women guilty of idolatry, where it is clearly proved upon them, De 17:2-7 and it is directed that when cases are too hard for inferior judges to determine, they should be brought to Jerusalem to the priests, Levites, and judges, which formed the great consistory there, whose sentence was to be adhered unto on pain of death, De 17:8-13, and rules are given about the choice of a king, and he is informed what he must not do, and what he should do, De 17:14-20.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 7

  • 1. See Deuteronomy 12:5
  • 2. Deuteronomy 19:17; Deuteronomy 21:5; 2 Chronicles 19:8, 10; Psalms 122:5; Jeremiah 18:18; Haggai 2:11; Malachi 2:7
  • 3. Ezekiel 44:24
  • 4. [Deuteronomy 18:20, 22; Ezra 10:8]
  • 5. Deuteronomy 10:8; Deuteronomy 18:5, 7
  • 6. [See ver. 7 above]
  • 7. See Deuteronomy 13:11
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