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Selected Verse: Deuteronomy 13:12 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
De 13:12	King James	If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Certain men, the children of Belial--lawless, designing demagogues (Jdg 19:22; Sa1 1:16; Sa1 25:25), who abused their influence to withdraw the inhabitants of the city to idol-worship.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

Certain men, the children of Belial--lawless, designing demagogues (Jdg 19:22; Sa1 1:16; Sa1 25:25), who abused their influence to withdraw the inhabitants of the city to idol-worship.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
City was to keep jealous watch over city, as man over man. The clause "which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell in" significantly reminds them that the real ownership of their dwellings rested in the Lord (compare Lev 25:23), and that they, the mere tenants, must not allow His property to become a center of rebellion against His just authority.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

City was to keep jealous watch over city, as man over man. The clause "which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell in" significantly reminds them that the real ownership of their dwellings rested in the Lord (compare Lev 25:23), and that they, the mere tenants, must not allow His property to become a center of rebellion against His just authority.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
This was to be done, and all Israel was to hear it and fear, that no such wickedness should be performed any more in the congregation. The fear of punishment, which is given here as the ultimate end of the punishment itself, is not to be regarded as the principle lying at the foundation of the law, but simply, as Calvin expresses it, as "the utility and fruit of severity," one reason for carrying out the law, which is not to be confounded with the so-called deterrent theory, i.e., the attempt to deter from crime by the mode of punishing (see my Archologie, ii. p. 262).

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

This was to be done, and all Israel was to hear it and fear, that no such wickedness should be performed any more in the congregation. The fear of punishment, which is given here as the ultimate end of the punishment itself, is not to be regarded as the principle lying at the foundation of the law, but simply, as Calvin expresses it, as "the utility and fruit of severity," one reason for carrying out the law, which is not to be confounded with the so-called deterrent theory, i.e., the attempt to deter from crime by the mode of punishing (see my Archologie, ii. p. 262).

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