Deuteronomy 17:2

If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight, in transgressing his covenant,

World English Bible

Learn

Your notes

Private to you. Anything you write on this verse, here or while reading, shows up here and in My study.

Other translations

WEBBE

If there is found amongst you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in the LORD your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,

BSB

If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant

KJV

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 sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

ASV

If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

BBE

If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

Original Hebrew

Look up a word

Tap a word to see what it means and everywhere else it's used.

כִּי־ ki- if H3588 יִמָּצֵא yi·ma·tze' he will be found H4672 בְקִרְבְּךָ ve·kir·be·cha in midst your H7130 בְּאַחַד be·'a·chad in one of H259 שְׁעָרֶיךָ she·'a·rei·kha gates your H8179 אֲשֶׁר־ 'a·sher- which H834 יְהוָה yah·weh Yahweh H3068 אֱלֹהֶיךָ 'e·lo·hei·kha God your H430 נֹתֵן no·ten [is] about to give H5414 לָךְ lakh to (the) you H9031 אִישׁ 'ish a man H376 אוֹ־ 'ov- or H176 אִשָּׁה 'i·shah a woman H802 אֲשֶׁר 'a·sher who H834 יַעֲשֶׂה ya·'a·seh he will do H6213 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 הָרַע ha·ra' the evil H7451 בְּעֵינֵי be·'ei·nei in [the] eyes of H5869 יְהוָה־ yah·weh- Yahweh H3068 אֱלֹהֶיךָ 'e·lo·hei·kha God your H430 לַעֲבֹר la·'a·vor by transgressing H5674 בְּרִיתוֹ be·ri·to covenant his H1285

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–7

No creature which had any blemish was to be offered in sacrifice to God. We are thus called to remember the perfect, pure, and spotless sacrifice of Christ, and reminded to serve God with the best of our abilities, time, and possession, or our pretended obedience will be hateful to him. So great a punishment as death, so remarkable a death as stoning, must be inflicted on the Jewish idolater. Let all who in our day set up idols in their hearts, remember how God punished this crime in Israel.

Read Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 17 →

Cross-references

Topics

Church Idolatry

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.