Deuteronomy 17 (NET)

Deuteronomy 17:1¹You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the Lord your God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 15:21Deut 23:18Mal 1:8Deut 24:4Lev 22:20-251 Pet 1:19Deut 25:16Exod 12:5Gen 41:19Gen 41:3-4

Deuteronomy 17:2²Suppose 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 covenantCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 8:1Judg 2:202 Kgs 18:12Deut 13:6-18Deut 17:5Hos 6:7Josh 23:16Josh 7:11Josh 7:15Deut 29:18

Deuteronomy 17:3³by serving other gods and worshiping them—the sun, moon, or any other heavenly bodies that I have not permitted you to worship.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 7:31Deut 4:19Jer 19:5Jer 32:35Jer 7:22-23Job 31:26-272 Kgs 21:3Ezek 8:16Jer 8:2

Deuteronomy 17:4⁴When 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,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 13:12-14Deut 19:18John 7:51Prov 25:2

Deuteronomy 17:5⁵you 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 24:14Josh 7:25Lev 24:16Deut 13:10-11Deut 22:21Deut 22:24Deut 21:21

Deuteronomy 17:6⁶At the testimony of two or three witnesses the person must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:28Num 35:301 Tim 5:19Deut 19:15Matt 18:16John 8:17-182 Cor 13:1

Deuteronomy 17:7⁷The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge the evil from among you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 13:91 Cor 5:13Deut 13:5Deut 17:12Acts 7:58-59Deut 19:19Deut 24:7Judg 20:13

Deuteronomy 17:8⁸If 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:5Hag 2:11Deut 1:171 Kgs 3:16-282 Chr 19:8-10Deut 19:17Deut 19:4Exod 18:26Exod 21:12-14Exod 21:20

Deuteronomy 17:9⁹You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 44:24Hag 2:11Mal 2:7Deut 19:17-21Jer 18:18

Deuteronomy 17:10¹⁰You must then do as they have determined at that place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 22:2-3

Deuteronomy 17:11¹¹You 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 1:71 Pet 2:13-152 Pet 2:102 Sam 14:19Deut 17:20Deut 25:1Deut 28:14Deut 5:32Josh 23:6Jude 1:8

Deuteronomy 17:12¹²The 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 13:5Num 15:301 Thess 4:81 Tim 5:20Deut 10:8Deut 17:7Deut 18:5Deut 18:7Ezra 10:8Heb 10:26-29

Deuteronomy 17:13¹³Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and not be so presumptuous again.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 13:11Deut 19:20Num 15:30-31

Deuteronomy 17:14¹⁴When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, “I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 8:19-201 Sam 12:19Josh 1:131 Sam 8:5-7Deut 11:31Deut 12:9-10Deut 18:9Deut 26:1Deut 26:9Deut 7:1

Deuteronomy 17:15¹⁵you must select without fail a king whom the Lord your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens you must appoint a king—you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 30:211 Chr 22:101 Chr 12:231 Sam 10:241 Sam 16:12-131 Sam 9:15-172 Sam 5:2Jer 2:25Ps 2:2Ps 2:6

Deuteronomy 17:16¹⁶Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 31:1-3Deut 28:68Ezek 17:15Hos 11:5Ps 20:71 Kgs 10:26-281 Kgs 4:26Exod 13:17Num 14:3-41 Kgs 1:5

Deuteronomy 17:17¹⁷Furthermore, he must not marry many wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 13:26Matt 19:5Prov 30:8-91 Kgs 11:1-4Gen 2:24Ps 62:10Mal 2:151 Tim 6:171 Tim 6:92 Sam 3:2-5

Deuteronomy 17:18¹⁸When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 34:152 Kgs 11:122 Kgs 22:8Deut 31:24-26Deut 31:9

Deuteronomy 17:19¹⁹It must be with him constantly, and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 1:8Ps 119:97-100Ps 1:22 Tim 3:15-17John 5:39Deut 11:18Deut 4:10Deut 6:6-9

Deuteronomy 17:20²⁰Then he will not exalt himself above his fellow citizens or turn from the commandments to the right or left, and he and his descendants will enjoy many years ruling over his kingdom in Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 15:5Deut 5:32Dan 5:20-23Isa 2:12Ps 131:1-21 Kgs 11:12-131 Kgs 11:341 Kgs 11:361 Sam 13:13-141 Sam 15:23