Deuteronomy 17:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And any man who, in his pride, will not give ear to the priest whose place is there before the Lord your God, or to the judge, is to be put to death: you are to put away the evil from Israel.

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  • Num 15:30 : 30 But the person who does wrong in the pride of his heart, if he is one of you or of another nation by birth, is acting without respect for the Lord, and will be cut off from his people.
  • Deut 13:5 : 5 And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you.
  • Deut 10:8 : 8 At that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord and to do his work and to give blessings in his name, to this day.
  • Deut 17:7 : 7 The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.
  • Deut 18:5 : 5 For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.
  • Deut 18:7 : 7 Then he will do the work of a priest in the name of the Lord his God, with all his brothers the Levites who are there before the Lord.
  • Ezra 10:8 : 8 And that if anyone did not come before three days were past, as ordered by the rulers and the responsible men, all his goods would be put under the curse, and he himself would be cut off from the meeting of the people who had come back.
  • Hos 4:4 : 4 Let no man go to law or make protests, for your people are like those who go to law with a priest.
  • Matt 10:14 : 14 And whoever will not take you in, or give ear to your words, when you go out from that house or that town, put off its dust from your feet.
  • 1 Thess 4:8 : 8 Whoever, then, goes against this word, goes against not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
  • 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Say sharp words to sinners when all are present, so that the rest may be in fear.
  • Heb 10:26-29 : 26 For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins, 27 But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God. 28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses: 29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.
  • John 12:48 : 48 He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day.
  • John 20:23 : 23 Any to whom you give forgiveness, will be made free from their sins; and any from whom you keep back forgiveness, will still be in their sins.
  • 1 Thess 4:2 : 2 Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
  • Ps 19:13 : 13 Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.
  • Prov 21:11 : 11 When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.
  • Jer 25:3-9 : 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, even till this day, for twenty-three years, the word of the Lord has been coming to me, and I have given it to you, getting up early and talking to you; but you have not given ear. 4 And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you have not given attention and your ear has not been open to give hearing; 5 Saying, Come back now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and keep your place in the land which the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from times long past even for ever: 6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves. 7 But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves. 8 So this is what the Lord of armies has said: Because you have not given ear to my words, 9 See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever. 10 And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights. 11 All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years. 12 And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever. 13 And I will make that land undergo everything I have said against it, even everything recorded in this book, which Jeremiah the prophet has said against all the nations. 14 For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.
  • Deut 18:20 : 20 But the prophet who takes it on himself to say words in my name which I have not given him orders to say, or who says anything in the name of other gods, will come to his death.
  • Deut 13:11 : 11 And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.

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  • Deut 17:13
    83%

    13 And all the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear and put away their pride.

  • Deut 13:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9 But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

    10 Let him be stoned with stones till he is dead; because it was his purpose to make you false to the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

    11 And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.

  • Num 15:30-31
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    30 But the person who does wrong in the pride of his heart, if he is one of you or of another nation by birth, is acting without respect for the Lord, and will be cut off from his people.

    31 Because he had no respect for the word of the Lord, and did not keep his law, that man will be cut off without mercy and his sin will be on him.

  • Deut 21:21-22
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    21 Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.

    22 If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;

  • Exod 21:14-15
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    76%

    14 But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

    15 Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

  • Deut 18:20
    76%

    20 But the prophet who takes it on himself to say words in my name which I have not given him orders to say, or who says anything in the name of other gods, will come to his death.

  • Deut 13:5
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    5 And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

  • Deut 17:4-7
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    4 If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;

    5 Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.

    6 On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness.

    7 The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

  • Josh 1:18
    75%

    18 Whoever goes against your orders, and does not give attention to all your words, will be put to death: only take heart and be strong.

  • 2 Chr 15:13
    74%

    13 And that anyone, small or great, man or woman, who was not true to the Lord, the God of Israel, would be put to death.

  • Exod 19:12
    74%

    12 And let limits be marked out for the people round the mountain, and say to them, Take care not to go up the mountain or near the sides of it: whoever puts his foot on the mountain will certainly come to his death:

  • Lev 17:9
    74%

    9 And does not take it to the door of the Tent of meeting to make an offering to the Lord, that man will be cut off from among his people.

  • Deut 17:9-11
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    73%

    9 And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:

    10 And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:

    11 Acting in agreement with their teaching and the decision they give: not turning to one side or the other from the word they have given you.

  • Deut 22:22
    73%

    22 If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.

  • Lev 24:16-17
    2 verses
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    16 And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.

    17 And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.

  • Deut 17:2
    73%

    2 If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

  • Exod 31:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.

    15 Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

  • Exod 21:12
    72%

    12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

  • Num 17:13
    72%

    13 Death will overtake everyone who comes near, who comes near the House of the Lord: are we all to come to destruction?

  • Num 15:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35 Then the Lord said to Moses, Certainly the man is to be put to death: let him be stoned by all the people outside the tent-circle.

    36 So all the people took him outside the tent-circle and he was stoned to death there, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • Lev 20:10
    72%

    10 And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

  • Jer 11:3
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    3 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,

  • Lev 17:4
    71%

    4 And has not taken it to the door of the Tent of meeting, to make an offering to the Lord, before the Lord's House, its blood will be on him, for he has taken life, and he will be cut off from among his people:

  • Mal 2:12
    71%

    12 The Lord will have the man who does this cut off root and branch out of the tents of Jacob, and him who makes an offering to the Lord of armies.

  • Josh 7:15
    71%

    15 Then the man who is taken with the cursed thing is to be burned, with everything which is his; because he has gone against the agreement of the Lord and has done an act of shame in Israel.

  • Exod 35:2
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    2 Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

  • Deut 19:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19 Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.

    20 And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you.

  • Num 18:22
    71%

    22 In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.

  • Exod 21:17
    71%

    17 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

  • Deut 19:12
    71%

    12 The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.

  • Num 1:51
    70%

    51 And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death.

  • Num 18:7
    70%

    7 And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes near will be put to death.

  • Heb 10:28
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    28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:

  • Lev 20:27
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    27 Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.

  • Deut 24:7
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    7 If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.

  • Num 3:10
    70%

    10 And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death.