Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.
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Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.
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And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
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And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of thee.
Cross-references (7)
Passages linked to Deuteronomy 19:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 17:13 All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
- Deuteronomy 21:21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.
- Deuteronomy 13:11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.
- Deuteronomy 17:7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Proverbs 21:11 When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
- Romans 13:3-4 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority, for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
- 1 Timothy 5:20 Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and…
Deu 19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
Ver. 20. Shall hear and fear.] Others’ woes should be our warnings, others’ sufferings our sermons, yea, standing sermons. {1Co 10:5-12} God’s house of correction is the school of instruction.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Those which remain, i.e. the rest of the people.…
Those which remain, i.e. the rest of the people. See Deu 13:11; 17:13.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Things. This is the design of penal laws, to…
Things. This is the design of penal laws, to render justice to the innocent, and to prevent the spreading of a contagious evil, by cutting off the hopes of impunity. (Grotius, Jur. ii. 10. 9.) --- "I would cause the criminal’s throat to be cut, says Seneca, (de Ira ii.) with the same countenance and mind as I kill serpents and venomous animals."
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. those which remain, etc.] A curious parallel to…
20. those which remain, etc.] A curious parallel to Deu_13:11 (12).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain cf. Deu_13:12
cf. Deu_13:12
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Then those who remain
Then those who remain
"When you punish the false witness, the rest of the people"
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will hear and fear
The full meaning of this statement can be made explicit. AT: "will hear about the punishment and be afraid of getting punished" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
commit no longer any such evil
"never again do something evil like that"
Your eyes must not pity
Here "eyes" refer to the whole person. AT: "You must not pity him" or "You must not show him mercy" (See: Synecdoche)
life will pay for life ... foot for foot
Here the phrases are shortened because the meaning is understood. It means the people must punish a person in the same way that he harmed another person. (See: Ellipsis)
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evil
life
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