Deuteronomy 17:12

Anyone who arrogantly defied the priest or judge was to die, purging evil from Israel. Contempt for God-ordained authority was treated with utmost seriousness.

Cross-references · 21

• Num 15:30But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.
• Deut 13:5Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.
• Deut 10:8At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name, as they do to this day.
• Heb 10:26–29If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
• Deut 18:7then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
• Deut 18:5For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.
• 1 Th 4:8Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
• 1 Tim 5:20But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.
• Deut 17:7The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.
• Ezra 10:8Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.
• Hos 4:4But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.
• Luke 10:16Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
• John 12:48There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
• Ps 19:13Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.
• Deut 13:11Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.
• Prov 21:11When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; and when a wise man is instructed, he acquires knowledge.
• Jer 25:3–14“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
• Deut 18:20But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”
• 1 Th 4:2For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
• Matt 10:14And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.
• John 20:23If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.”

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