Deuteronomy 17:12

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The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the LORD your God there, or to the judge– that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 15:30 : 30 Deliberate Sin“‘But the person who acts defiantly, whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults the LORD. That person must be cut off from among his people.
  • Deut 13:5 : 5 As for that prophet or dreamer, he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the LORD your God has commanded you to go. In this way you must purge out evil from within.
  • Deut 10:8 : 8 At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the LORD’s covenant, to stand before the LORD to serve him, and to formulate blessings in his name, as they do to this very day.
  • Deut 17:7 : 7 The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
  • Deut 18:5 : 5 For the LORD your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.
  • Deut 18:7 : 7 and serves in the name of the LORD his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
  • Ezra 10:8 : 8 Everyone who did not come within three days would thereby forfeit all his property, in keeping with the counsel of the officials and the elders. Furthermore, he himself would be excluded from the assembly of the exiles.
  • Hos 4:4 : 4 The Lord’s Dispute against the Sinful Priesthood Do not let anyone accuse or contend against anyone else: for my case is against you priests!
  • Matt 10:14 : 14 And if anyone will not welcome you or listen to your message, shake the dust off your feet as you leave that house or that town.
  • 1 Thess 4:8 : 8 Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
  • 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Those guilty of sin must be rebuked before all, as a warning to the rest.
  • Heb 10:26-29 : 26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, 27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies. 28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 “The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
  • John 12:48 : 48 The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.
  • John 20:23 : 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven; if you retain anyone’s sins, they are retained.”
  • 1 Thess 4:2 : 2 For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
  • Ps 19:13 : 13 Moreover, keep me from committing flagrant sins; do not allow such sins to control me. Then I will be blameless, and innocent of blatant rebellion.
  • Prov 21:11 : 11 When a scorner is punished, the naive becomes wise; when a wise person is instructed, he gains knowledge.
  • Jer 25:3-9 : 3 “For the last twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was ruling in Judah until now, the LORD’s messages have come to me and I have told them to you over and over again. But you would not listen. 4 Over and over again the LORD has sent his servants the prophets to you. But you have not listened or paid attention. 5 He said through them,‘Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and stop doing the evil things you are doing. If you do, I will allow you to continue to live here in the land that I gave to you and your ancestors as a lasting possession. 6 Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.’ 7 So, now the LORD says,‘You have not listened to me. But you have made me angry by the things that you have done. Thus you have brought harm on yourselves.’ 8 “Therefore, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘You have not listened to what I said. 9 So I, the LORD, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn. 10 I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in these lands. I will put an end to the sound of people grinding meal. I will put an end to lamps shining in their houses. 11 This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.’ 12 “‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon an everlasting ruin. I, the LORD, affirm it! 13 I will bring on that land everything that I said I would. I will bring on it everything that is written in this book. I will bring on it everything that Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. 14 For many nations and great kings will make slaves of the king of Babylon and his nation too. I will repay them for all they have done!’”
  • Deut 18:20 : 20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.
  • Deut 13:11 : 11 Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid; no longer will they continue to do evil like this among you.

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    13Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and not be so presumptuous again.

  • Deut 13:9-11
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    9Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

    10You must stone him to death because he tried to entice you away from the LORD your God, who delivered you from the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.

    11Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid; no longer will they continue to do evil like this among you.

  • Num 15:30-31
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    30Deliberate Sin“‘But the person who acts defiantly, whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults the LORD. That person must be cut off from among his people.

    31Because he has despised the LORD’s message and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.’”

  • Deut 21:21-22
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    21Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.

    22Disposition of a Criminal’s Remains If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

  • Exod 21:14-15
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    14But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

    15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

  • Deut 18:20
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    20“But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

  • Deut 13:5
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    5As for that prophet or dreamer, he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the LORD your God has commanded you to go. In this way you must purge out evil from within.

  • Deut 17:4-7
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    4When it is reported to you and you hear about it, you must investigate carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing is being done in Israel,

    5you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing– that very man or woman– and you must stone that person to death.

    6At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

    7The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Josh 1:18
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    18Any man who rebels against what you say and does not obey all your commands will be executed. But be strong and brave!”

  • 2 Chr 15:13
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    13Anyone who would not seek the LORD God of Israel would be executed, whether they were young or old, male or female.

  • Exod 19:12
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    12You must set boundaries for the people all around, saying,‘Take heed to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death!

  • Lev 17:9
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    9but does not bring it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to offer it to the LORD– that person will be cut off from his people.

  • Deut 17:9-11
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    9You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.

    10You must then do as they have determined at that place the LORD chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

    11You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you.

  • Deut 22:22
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    22If a man is discovered in bed with a married woman both the man lying in bed with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.

  • Lev 24:16-17
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    16and one who misuses the name of the LORD must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a resident foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.

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    2Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you– in one of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you– who sins before the Lord your God and breaks his covenant

  • Exod 31:14-15
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    14So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people.

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  • Exod 21:12
    72%

    12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

  • Num 17:13
    72%

    13(17:28) Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the LORD will die! Are we all to die?”

  • Num 15:35-36
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    72%

    35Then the LORD said to Moses,“The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone him with stones outside the camp.”

    36So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Lev 20:10
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    10If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

  • Jer 11:3
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    3Tell them that the LORD, the God of Israel, says,‘Anyone who does not keep the terms of the covenant will be under a curse.

  • Lev 17:4
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    4but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to present it as an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people.

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    12May the LORD cut off from the community of Jacob every last person who does this, as well as the person who presents improper offerings to the LORD of Heaven’s Armies!

  • Josh 7:15
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    15The one caught with the riches must be burned up along with all who belong to him, because he violated the LORD’s covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

  • Exod 35:2
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    2In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.

  • Deut 19:19-20
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    19you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

    20The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

  • Num 18:22
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    22No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

  • Exod 21:17
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    17“Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

  • Deut 19:12
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    12The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

  • Num 1:51
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    51Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites must take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be reassembled, the Levites must set it up. Any unauthorized person who approaches it must be killed.

  • Num 18:7
    70%

    7But you and your sons with you are responsible for your priestly duties, for everything at the altar and within the curtain. And you must serve. I give you the priesthood as a gift for service, but the unauthorized person who approaches must be put to death.”

  • Heb 10:28
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    28Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

  • Lev 20:27
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  • Deut 24:7
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    7If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

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    10So you are to appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will be responsible for their priesthood, but the unauthorized person who comes near must be put to death.”