Deuteronomy 17:13

13 All the people will hear and be afraid, and will not be contemptuous again.

Deuteronomy 17:13 in Other Translations

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

13 And all the people shall hear and fear and not act presumptuously again.

13 Then everyone else will hear about it and be afraid to act so arrogantly.

13 Everyone will take notice and be impressed. That will put an end to presumptuous behavior.

13 Then all the people will hear [about it], be afraid, and no longer behave arrogantly.

Deuteronomy 17:13 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 17:13

And all the people shall hear, and fear
All the people of Israel in their own cities, and particularly the judges in those cities; they shall hear of what is done to the obstinate and disobedient elder, and shall be afraid to commit the like offence, lest they should come into the same punishment:

and do no more presumptuously;
after his example; hence, Jarchi says, they wait till the feast comes, and then put him to death; and so it is said ^F11, they bring him up to the great sanhedrim which is at Jerusalem, and there keep him until the feast (the next feast), and put him to death at the feast, as it is said,

all the people shall hear, and fear.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 10. sect. 4.

Deuteronomy 17:13 In-Context

11 Act according to whatever they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.

12 Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the LORD your God is to be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.

13 All the people will hear and be afraid, and will not be contemptuous again.

14 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”

15 be sure to appoint over you a king the LORD your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.

Cross References

• 1. S ver 12; Deuteronomy 13:11; Deuteronomy 19:20