Deuteronomy 13:9

But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

King James Version · Read in your translation · Open the Explore console

Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
surely	הָרֹג֙ ha.Rog	H2026	to smite with deadly intent · verb, qal infinitive absolute
kill	תַּֽהַרְגֶ֔נּוּ ta.har.Ge.nu	H2026	to smite with deadly intent · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
hand	יָֽדְךָ֛ ya.de.Kha	H3027	a hand (the open one (indicating power · noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
first	בָרִֽאשׁוֹנָ֖ה va.ri.sho.Nah	H7223	first · preposition with the article + ordinal number, feminine singular absolute
death	לַהֲמִית֑וֹ la.ha.mi.To	H4191	to die (literally or figuratively) · preposition + verb, hiphil infinitive construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
afterwards	בָּאַחֲרֹנָֽה ba.'a.cha.ro.Nah	H314	hinder · preposition with the article + adjective, feminine singular absolute
hand	וְיַ֥ד ve.Yad	H3027	a hand (the open one (indicating power · conjunction + noun, common both genders singular construct
people	הָעָ֖ם ha.'Am	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 17:2-7 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 s…
Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, h…
John 8:7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at…
Acts 7:58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 13:6-11

Further provision is made by this branch of the statute against receiving the infection of idolatry from those that are near and dear to us. I. It is the policy of the tempter to send his solicitations by the hand of those whom we love, whom we least suspect of any ill design upon us, and whom we are desirous to please and apt to conform ourselves to. The enticement here is supposed to come from a brother or child that are near by nature, from a wife or friend that are near by choice, and are to us as our own souls, Deu 13:6. Satan tempted Adam by Eve and Christ by Peter. We are therefore concerned to stand upon our guard against a bad proposal when the person that makes it can pretend to an…

Read the whole note in the console

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 13:9

thou shalt surely kill him--not hastily, or in a private manner, but after trial and conviction; and his relative, as informer, was to cast the first stone (see on Deu 17:2; Act 7:58). It is manifest that what was done in secret could not be legally proved by a single informer; and hence Jewish writers say that spies were set in some private part of the house, to hear the conversation and watch the conduct of a person suspected of idolatrous tendencies.

John Gill on Deuteronomy 13:9

But thou shalt surely kill him,.... Not privately and secretly, when and where he entices, nor the enticed himself by his own authority, but after being examined, judged, and condemned by the civil magistrate; and none might judge a false prophet but the sanhedrim at Jerusalem, the sanhedrim of seventy one (m); see Luke 13:33, but the difficulty is how such an one could be convicted, since the affair was transacted secretly, Deuteronomy 13:6 and there were none present to be witnesses, none but the enticer and the enticed; so that either the enticer must be brought to a confession of his guilt, or the testimony of the enticed alone must be taken. The Jewish doctors say (n), that they laid in…

Read the whole note in the console

John Calvin

The Church Fathers

Thou sayest it is further written, If thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cast them from thee. The meaning of this Moses foretold by the testimony of the Book of Deuteronomy, If thy brother, (for these are our eyes and our hands,) or thy daughter, or thy wife, which is in thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known: then he added below, Thou shalt accuse him, and thine hand shall be upon him to put him to death. Dost thou see then that this was not spoken of penitents, but of those who not only themselves persevere in wickedness, but also cease not to put stumblingblocks in our way? These, however dear they be, we must relinquish; however useful, we must abandon.
— Pacian of Barcelona, Letter 3: Against the Treatise of the Novatians

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Witness — More than one witness was required in criminal cases (Deut. 17:6; 19:15). They were the first to execute the sentence on the condemned (Deut. 13:9; 17:7; 1 Kings 21:13; Matt. 27:1; Acts 7:57, 58).…
Friendship · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Punishment · .For prophesying falsely, or propagating false doctrines — .For prophesying falsely, or propagating false doctrines
Punishments · Were inflicted: By the witnesses — Were inflicted: By the witnesses
Witness · Required to throw the first stone in executing the sentence — Required to throw the first stone in executing the sentence

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Deuteronomy 13:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 13:6-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 13:9

John Gill on Deuteronomy 13:9

John Calvin

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Deuteronomy 13:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 13:6-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 13:9

John Gill on Deuteronomy 13:9

John Calvin

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Deuteronomy 13:9-11

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 13:9

Rashi on Deuteronomy 13:9