Deuteronomy 17 NKJV

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And if <i>it is</i> indeed true <i>and</i> certain that such an <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>abomination has been committed in Israel, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing, and shall stone to death that man or woman with stones. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from among you.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God chooses. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge <i>there</i> in those days, and inquire <i>of them;</i> they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You shall do according to the sentence which they pronounce upon you in that place which the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> chooses. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they order you. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>According to the sentence of the law in which they instruct you, according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside <i>to</i> the right hand or <i>to</i> the left from the sentence which they pronounce upon you. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act presumptuously.</span></p> <h3> Principles Governing Kings</span></h3><p><span class="text Deut-17-14"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“When you come to the land which the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that <i>are</i> around me,’ </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>you shall surely set a king over you whom the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God chooses; <i>one</i> from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who <i>is</i> not your brother. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has said to you, ‘You shall not return that way again.’ </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from <i>the one</i> before the priests, the Levites. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>that his heart may not <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment <i>to</i> the right hand or <i>to</i> the left, and that he may <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>prolong <i>his</i> days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-5366a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Deuteronomy 17:1">Deuteronomy 17:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>evil thing</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-5366b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Deuteronomy 17:1">Deuteronomy 17:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>detestable thing</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-5367c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Deuteronomy 17:2">Deuteronomy 17:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>towns</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-5369d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Deuteronomy 17:4">Deuteronomy 17:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>detestable thing</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-5385e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Deuteronomy 17:20">Deuteronomy 17:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>become proud</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-5385f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Deuteronomy 17:20">Deuteronomy 17:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>continue long in his kingdom</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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