Verse 19

his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 16:18 : 18 Provision for Justice You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the LORD your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.
  • Deut 21:2 : 2 your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.
  • Deut 25:7 : 7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say,“My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”
  • Zech 13:3 : 3 Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him,‘You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the LORD.’Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies.