Deuteronomy 17:7

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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.

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  • Deut 13:9 : 9 Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.
  • 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.
  • 1 Cor 5:13 : 13 But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among you.
  • Deut 17:12 : 12 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.
  • Deut 19:19 : 19 you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
  • Deut 24:7 : 7 If 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.
  • Judg 20:13 : 13 Now, hand over the good-for-nothings in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.
  • Acts 7:58-59 : 58 When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 They continued to stone Stephen while he prayed,“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

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  • Deut 13:8-11
    4 verses
    86%

    8You must not give in to him or even listen to him; do not feel sympathy for him or spare him or cover up for him.

    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.

  • Deut 17:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    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.

  • Deut 19:15-21
    7 verses
    79%

    15A single witness may not testify against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

    16If a false witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime,

    17then both parties to the controversy must stand before the LORD, that is, before the priests and judges who will be in office in those days.

    18The judges will thoroughly investigate the matter, and if the witness should prove to be false and to have given false testimony against the accused,

    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.

    21You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

  • Num 35:30-31
    2 verses
    78%

    30“Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses, but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

    31Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

  • Deut 21:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    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,

  • Deut 19:12-13
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

    13You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

  • Lev 24:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

    17“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.

  • Deut 17:12
    75%

    12The 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.

  • Exod 21:12
    73%

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

  • Num 35:21
    73%

    21or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.

  • Deut 13:5
    73%

    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.

  • Num 15:35-36
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Num 35:16-19
    4 verses
    73%

    16“But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

    17If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

    18Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon so that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

    19The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.

  • Deut 17:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8Appeal to a Higher Court If a matter is too difficult for you to judge– bloodshed, legal claim, or assault– matters of controversy in your villages– you must leave there and go up to the place the LORD your God chooses.

    9You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.

  • Deut 21:6
    72%

    6and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

  • Lev 24:14
    72%

    14“Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and all who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the whole congregation is to stone him to death.

  • Deut 17:2
    72%

    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

  • Deut 22:24
    72%

    24you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Lev 20:10
    72%

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

  • Deut 24:7
    72%

    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.

  • Num 35:24
    72%

    24then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.

  • Deut 21:9
    72%

    9In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the LORD.

  • Lev 20:27
    72%

    27Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums“‘A man or woman who has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

  • Deut 22:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

    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.

  • Deut 19:10
    71%

    10You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

  • Exod 21:14
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 15:13
    71%

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

  • Deut 21:2
    71%

    2your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.

  • Exod 23:1
    70%

    1Justice“You must not give a false report. Do not make common cause with the wicked to be a malicious witness.