Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 13:9

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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 :- ; :- ). 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. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-12" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-deu-13-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/deu-13-9

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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