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his covenant, <a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/17.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant <a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/17.htm">King James Bible</a> If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, <a href="/nkjv/deuteronomy/17.htm">New King James Version</a> “If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing His covenant, <a href="/nasb_/deuteronomy/17.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “If there is found in your midst, in any of your towns which the LORD your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, by violating His covenant, <a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/17.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220If there is found in your midst, in any of your towns, which the LORD your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, by transgressing His covenant, <a href="/nasb77/deuteronomy/17.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “If there is found in your midst, in any of your towns, which the LORD your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, by transgressing His covenant, <a href="/lsb/deuteronomy/17.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “If there is found in your midst, in any of your gates of the towns which Yahweh your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, by trespassing against His covenant, <a href="/amp/deuteronomy/17.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “If there is discovered among you, within any of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does evil in the sight of the LORD your God, by transgressing (violating) His covenant, <a href="/csb/deuteronomy/17.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> “If a man or woman among you in one of your towns that the LORD your God will give you is discovered doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and violating his covenant <a href="/hcsb/deuteronomy/17.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> If a man or woman among you in one of your towns that the LORD your God will give you is discovered doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and violating His covenant <a href="/asv/deuteronomy/17.htm">American Standard Version</a> If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing his covenant, <a href="/erv/deuteronomy/17.htm">English Revised Version</a> If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, <a href="/gwt/deuteronomy/17.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> In one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you, there may be a man or woman among you who is doing what the LORD considers evil. This person may be disregarding the conditions of the LORD's promise <a href="/gnt/deuteronomy/17.htm">Good News Translation</a> "Suppose you hear that in one of your towns some men or women have sinned against the LORD and broken his covenant <a href="/isv/deuteronomy/17.htm">International Standard Version</a> "You may discover that a man or woman living in one of your cities that the LORD your God is about to give you has done evil in the eyes of the LORD your God by transgressing his covenant. <a href="/msb/deuteronomy/17.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant <a href="/net/deuteronomy/17.htm">NET Bible</a> Suppose 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 <a href="/nheb/deuteronomy/17.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> If there is found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant, <a href="/wbt/deuteronomy/17.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> If there shall be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, <a href="/web/deuteronomy/17.htm">World English Bible</a> If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant, <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/deuteronomy/17.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> When there is found in your midst, in one of your cities which your God YHWH is giving to you, a man or a woman who does evil in the eyes of your God YHWH by transgressing His covenant, <a href="/ylt/deuteronomy/17.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 'When there is found in thy midst, in one of thy cities which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, a man or a woman who doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah thy God by transgressing His covenant, <a href="/slt/deuteronomy/17.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> When there shall be found in the midst of thee in one of thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, a man or a woman who shall do evil in the eyes of Jehovah thy God to pass by his covenant,<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/deuteronomy/17.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant, <a href="/cpdv/deuteronomy/17.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> When there will have been found among you, within one of your gates which the Lord your God will give to you, a man or a woman who is doing evil in the sight of the Lord your God, and who is transgressing his covenant, <a href="/nabre/deuteronomy/17.htm">New American Bible</a> If there is found in your midst, in any one of the communities which the LORD, your God, gives you, a man or a woman who does evil in the sight of the LORD, your God, and transgresses his covenant, <a href="/nrsvce/deuteronomy/17.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> If there is found among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, and transgresses his covenant<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/deuteronomy/17.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> If there is found among you, within any of your towns which the LORD your God gives you, a man or a woman who shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God and transgress his covenant, <a href="/hpbt/deuteronomy/17.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And if a man or a woman who will do evil before LORD JEHOVAH your God will be found among you in one of your cities that LORD JEHOVAH your God gives to you, and that one will pass over his covenant.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/deuteronomy/17.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing His covenant, <a href="/sep/deuteronomy/17.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And if there should be found in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee, a man or a woman who shall do that which is evil before the Lord thy God, so as to transgress his covenant, <a href="/parallel/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IRhBtZaVxJ0?start=4829" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/17.htm">Purge the Idolater</a> 2<a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">If</a> <a href="/hebrew/376.htm" title="376: ’îš (N-ms) -- Man. Contracted for 'enowsh; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term.">a man</a> <a href="/hebrew/176.htm" title="176: ’ōw- (Conj) -- Or. Presumed to be the constructive or genitival form of -av; short for 'avvah; desire; hence or, also if.">or</a> <a href="/hebrew/802.htm" title="802: ’iš·šāh (N-fs) -- Woman, wife, female. Feminine of 'iysh or 'enowsh; irregular plural, nashiym; a woman.">woman</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7130.htm" title="7130: ḇə·qir·bə·ḵā (Prep-b:: N-msc:: 2ms) -- Inward part, midst. From qarab; properly, the nearest part, i.e. The center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial.">among you</a> <a href="/hebrew/259.htm" title="259: bə·’a·ḥaḏ (Prep-b:: Number-msc) -- One. A numeral from 'achad; properly, united, i.e. One; or first.">in one</a> <a href="/hebrew/8179.htm" title="8179: šə·‘ā·re·ḵā (N-mpc:: 2ms) -- A gate. From sha'ar in its original sense; an opening, i.e. Door or gate.">of the towns</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer- (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā (N-mpc:: 2ms) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">your God</a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: nō·ṯên (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">gives</a> <a href="/hebrew/lāḵ (Prep:: 2ms) -- ">you</a> <a href="/hebrew/4672.htm" title="4672: yim·mā·ṣê (V-Nifal-Imperf-3ms) -- To attain to, find. ">is found</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ya·‘ă·śeh (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">doing</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7451.htm" title="7451: hā·ra‘ (Art:: Adj-ms) -- Bad, evil. From ra'a'; bad or evil.">evil</a> <a href="/hebrew/5869.htm" title="5869: bə·‘ê·nê (Prep-b:: N-cdc) -- An eye. Probably a primitive word; an eye; by analogy, a fountain.">in the sight</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh- (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">of the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā (N-mpc:: 2ms) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">your God</a> <a href="/hebrew/5674.htm" title="5674: la·‘ă·ḇōr (Prep-l:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To pass over, through, or by, pass on. A primitive root; to cross over; used very widely of any transition; specifically, to cover.">by transgressing</a> <a href="/hebrew/1285.htm" title="1285: bə·rî·ṯōw (N-fsc:: 3ms) -- A covenant. From barah (like bara'); a compact.">His covenant</a> 3and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/exodus/22-20.htm">Exodus 22:20</a> If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction. <a href="/leviticus/20-2.htm">Leviticus 20:2-5</a> “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him. / And I will set My face against that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name. / And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech, ... <a href="/deuteronomy/13-1.htm">Deuteronomy 13:1-5</a> If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you, / and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,” / you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul. ... <a href="/deuteronomy/13-6.htm">Deuteronomy 13:6-11</a> If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known, / the gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, whether from one end of the earth or the other), / you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him. ... <a href="/deuteronomy/13-12.htm">Deuteronomy 13:12-18</a> If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said / that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known), / then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you, ... <a href="/1_kings/21-10.htm">1 Kings 21:10-13</a> But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.” / So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them. / They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people. ... <a href="/2_kings/17-7.htm">2 Kings 17:7-18</a> All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods / and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. / The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities. ... <a href="/2_chronicles/33-2.htm">2 Chronicles 33:2-9</a> And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. / For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven. / Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.” ... <a href="/jeremiah/19-4.htm">Jeremiah 19:4-5</a> because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. / They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind. <a href="/ezekiel/8-5.htm">Ezekiel 8:5-18</a> “Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy. / “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.” / Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall. ... <a href="/matthew/18-15.htm">Matthew 18:15-17</a> If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. / But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ / If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector. <a href="/john/8-3.htm">John 8:3-11</a> The scribes and Pharisees, however, brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them / and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. / In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?” ... <a href="/acts/15-20.htm">Acts 15:20</a> Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood. <a href="/romans/1-18.htm">Romans 1:18-25</a> The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. / For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. / For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. ... <a href="/1_corinthians/5-1.htm">1 Corinthians 5:1-5</a> It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. / And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this? / Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present. ...</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>If there be found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, man or woman, that has worked wickedness in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant,man<a href="/deuteronomy/17-5.htm">Deuteronomy 17:5</a> Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.<a href="/deuteronomy/13-6.htm">Deuteronomy 13:6</a> If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;<a href="/deuteronomy/29-18.htm">Deuteronomy 29:18</a> Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;in transgressing<a href="/deuteronomy/4-23.htm">Deuteronomy 4:23</a> Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.<a href="/deuteronomy/29-25.htm">Deuteronomy 29:25</a> Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:<a href="/deuteronomy/31-20.htm">Deuteronomy 31:20</a> For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/deuteronomy/10-8.htm">Covenant</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/17-1.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-19.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-11.htm">Midst</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/13-18.htm">Sight</a> <a href="/numbers/32-23.htm">Sinning</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-18.htm">Towns</a> <a href="/numbers/14-41.htm">Transgressing</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/13-11.htm">Wickedness</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-14.htm">Within</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/13-14.htm">Wrought</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/deuteronomy/29-1.htm">Covenant</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/17-5.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/19-21.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/17-7.htm">Midst</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/21-9.htm">Sight</a> <a href="/1_samuel/14-33.htm">Sinning</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/18-6.htm">Towns</a> <a href="/esther/3-3.htm">Transgressing</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/25-2.htm">Wickedness</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/17-8.htm">Within</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/17-4.htm">Wrought</a><div class="vheading2">Deuteronomy 17</div>1. <a href="/deuteronomy/17-1.htm">The things sacrificed must be sound</a> 2. <a href="/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">Idolaters must be slain</a> 8. <a href="/deuteronomy/17-8.htm">Hard controversies are to be determined by the priests and judges</a> 12. <a href="/deuteronomy/17-12.htm">The one who shows contempt for the judge must die</a> 14. <a href="/deuteronomy/17-14.htm">The election</a> 16. <a href="/deuteronomy/17-16.htm">and duty of a king</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In ancient Israel, both men and women were held accountable to the covenant with God. This reflects the biblical principle that all individuals, regardless of gender, are responsible for their actions before God.in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you This refers to the Promised Land, which was divided among the tribes of Israel. Each town or city was a gift from God, highlighting the divine provision and the expectation of living according to His laws within these communities. The land was not just a physical inheritance but a spiritual one, where God's laws were to be upheld.is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God "Evil" in this context refers to actions that are contrary to God's commandments. The phrase "in the sight of the LORD" underscores the omniscience of God, who sees all actions and judges them according to His standards. This reflects the biblical theme that nothing is hidden from God, as seen in <a href="/proverbs/15-3.htm">Proverbs 15:3</a>.by transgressing His covenant The covenant refers to the agreement between God and Israel, established at Sinai, where the Israelites agreed to follow God's laws. Transgressing the covenant means breaking this agreement, which was considered a serious offense. This concept is central to the Old Testament, where faithfulness to the covenant is a recurring theme. The covenant relationship is a precursor to the New Covenant established through Jesus Christ, who fulfills the law and offers grace for transgressions.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a> The covenant people of God, to whom the laws and commandments were given. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a> The covenant God of Israel, who established the laws and commandments for His people. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_towns.htm">The Towns</a> The specific locations within the Promised Land that God was giving to the Israelites. 4. <a href="/topical/t/transgression_of_the_covenant.htm">Transgression of the Covenant</a> The act of breaking the agreement between God and His people, which was established through the Law. 5. <a href="/topical/e/evil_in_the_sight_of_the_lord.htm">Evil in the Sight of the LORD</a> Actions that are contrary to God's commandments and character.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_seriousness_of_covenant_faithfulness.htm">The Seriousness of Covenant Faithfulness</a> God takes His covenant with His people seriously, and transgressing it is considered evil in His sight. Believers today are called to uphold their commitment to God through obedience and faithfulness. <a href="/topical/c/community_responsibility.htm">Community Responsibility</a> The passage highlights the communal aspect of faith. The community is responsible for addressing sin within its midst to maintain holiness and purity. <a href="/topical/t/the_nature_of_sin.htm">The Nature of Sin</a> Sin is not just a personal failing but an offense against God. Understanding sin in this light should lead to a deeper repentance and desire for holiness. <a href="/topical/g/god's_provision_and_expectation.htm">God's Provision and Expectation</a> God provided the towns and the land to the Israelites, expecting them to live according to His laws. Similarly, God provides for us and expects us to live in a way that honors Him. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_accountability.htm">The Role of Accountability</a> Accountability within the community of believers is crucial. We are called to lovingly confront and restore those who have strayed from God's commandments.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_deuteronomy_17.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Deuteronomy 17</a> <a href="/q/does_joshua_7_26_match_historical_records.htm">Does the aftermath in Joshua 7 (especially verse 26) align with known historical or cultural records of that era?</a> <a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_deut._17_2-5_with_modern_rights.htm">How do we reconcile Deuteronomy 17:2–5’s command to stone idolaters with modern concepts of religious freedom and human rights? </a> <a href="/q/what_is_sun_worship.htm">What defines the practice of sun worship?</a> <a href="/q/what_is_the_bible's_stance_on_stoning.htm">What is the Bible's stance on stoning?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/deuteronomy/17.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div><a href="/context/deuteronomy/17-2.htm" title="If there be found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, man or woman, that has worked wickedness in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant,">Deuteronomy 17:2-7</a>. EVERY IDOLATER TO BE STONED.(2) If there be found . . . man or woman.--This section differs slightly from the third section of Deuteronomy 13. The penalty there is directed against the teachers of idolatry, whether prophets, private individuals, or communities in Israel. Here the penalty of death is enacted for every individual, man or woman, found guilty of worshipping any other god but Jehovah. We find traces of this law in the covenant made in the reign of Asa (<a href="/2_chronicles/15-13.htm" title="That whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.">2Chronicles 15:13</a>), "that whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.(3) Either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven.--The oldest and simplest, and apparently most innocent form of idolatry. If this was punishable with death, obviously no grosser form of idolatry could be spared. The Book of Job, which knows no other idolatry, admits this to be a denial "of the God that is above" (<a href="/context/job/31-26.htm" title="If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;">Job 31:26-28</a>).(6) He that is worthy of death.--Literally, he that dieth.(7) The hands of the witnesses . . . first.--A great safeguard against false testimony.Put . . . away.--Literally, consume. The primary meaning of the word is "burn." Taberah, "burning," is a derivative.The evil.--The Greek version renders this "the wicked man," and the sentence is taken up in this form in <a href="/1_corinthians/5-13.htm" title="But them that are without God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.">1Corinthians 5:13</a>, "and ye shall put away from among you that wicked person." The phrase is of frequent occurrence in Deuteronomy, and if we are to understand that in all places where it occurs "the evil" is to be under. stood of an individual, and to be taken in the masculine gender, the fact seems to deserve notice in considering the phrase "deliver us from evil" in the Lord's Prayer. There is really no such thing as wickedness in the world apart from some wicked being or person. We are also reminded of the famous argument of St. Augustine, that evil has no existence except as a corruption of good, or a creature's perverted will. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/deuteronomy/17.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 2. - In <a href="/deuteronomy/13.htm">Deuteronomy 13</a>, Moses enacts what is to be done to those who seduce into idolatry. Here he declares what is to be done to those who are so seduced. Done wickedness; literally, done the evil. The definite article is prefixed; it is not any kind of wickedness that is here denounced, but the special sin of idolatry, the wickedness κατ ἐξόχην. All idolatry was to be strictly suppressed - those convicted of it to be put to death by stoning. <a href="/commentaries/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>If כִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction a man אִ֣ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_376.htm">Strong's 376: </a> A man as an individual, a male person or אוֹ־ (’ōw-) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_176.htm">Strong's 176: </a> Desire, if woman אִשָּׁ֗ה (’iš·šāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_802.htm">Strong's 802: </a> Woman, wife, female among you בְקִרְבְּךָ֙ (ḇə·qir·bə·ḵā) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7130.htm">Strong's 7130: </a> The nearest part, the center in one בְּאַחַ֣ד (bə·’a·ḥaḏ) Preposition-b | Number - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_259.htm">Strong's 259: </a> United, one, first of the towns שְׁעָרֶ֔יךָ (šə·‘ā·re·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8179.htm">Strong's 8179: </a> An opening, door, gate that אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that the LORD יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel your God אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative gives נֹתֵ֣ן (nō·ṯên) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> To give, put, set you לָ֑ךְ (lāḵ) Preposition | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> is found יִמָּצֵ֤א (yim·mā·ṣê) Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4672.htm">Strong's 4672: </a> To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present doing יַעֲשֶׂ֧ה (ya·‘ă·śeh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> To do, make evil הָרַ֛ע (hā·ra‘) Article | Adjective - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7451.htm">Strong's 7451: </a> Bad, evil in the sight בְּעֵינֵ֥י (bə·‘ê·nê) Preposition-b | Noun - cdc <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5869.htm">Strong's 5869: </a> An eye, a fountain of the LORD יְהוָֽה־ (Yah·weh-) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel your God אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative by transgressing לַעֲבֹ֥ר (la·‘ă·ḇōr) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5674.htm">Strong's 5674: </a> To pass over, through, or by, pass on His covenant בְּרִיתֽוֹ׃ (bə·rî·ṯōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1285.htm">Strong's 1285: </a> A covenant <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">Deuteronomy 17:2 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">Deuteronomy 17:2 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">Deuteronomy 17:2 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">Deuteronomy 17:2 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">Deuteronomy 17:2 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">Deuteronomy 17:2 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">Deuteronomy 17:2 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">Deuteronomy 17:2 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">Deuteronomy 17:2 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">Deuteronomy 17:2 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/17-2.htm">OT Law: Deuteronomy 17:2 If there be found in the midst (Deut. 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