The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 13:8
Pity, spare, conceal. The accumulation of terms serves to make the injunction more solemn and impressive. read more
申命記 13:5-10 Jcb
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 13:5
The context and parallel passages (compare Deuteronomy 17:7; Leviticus 20:2) indicate that there was to be a regular judicial procedure, and that the manner of the execution was to be by stoning. In this the community was to take its part in order to show its horror at the crime, and to clear itself of complicity therein. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 13:6
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 13:5
Deuteronomy 13:5. Because he hath spoken Taught, or persuaded you. To turn you away from the Lord To induce you to forsake God and his worship. This shows that the most certain character of a true prophet is to be taken from his doctrine, rather than from his miracles. To thrust thee out of the way This phrase denotes the great force and power of seducers to corrupt men’s minds. So shalt thou put the evil away Thou shalt remove the guilt, by removing the guilty. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 13:6
Deuteronomy 13:6. The son of thy mother This is added, to restrain the signification of the word brother, which is often used generally for one near akin, and to express the nearness of the relation, the mother’s side being usually the ground of the most fervent affection. Thy daughter Thy piety must overcome both thy affection and thy compassion to the weaker sex. The father and mother are here omitted, because they are sufficiently contained in the former examples. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 13:8
Deuteronomy 13:8. Neither shall thine eye pity him The reason of the thing shows that two circumstances are implied: one is, that the seducer should be convicted by two sufficient witnesses before he should be put to death; the other, that the offender obstinately persisted in the defence of idolatry in spite of admonition; for who can doubt but a father, for instance, might save the life of his son, in case he brought him to timely repentance? Neither shalt thou conceal him That is,... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 13:9-11
Deuteronomy 13:9-11. Thou shalt surely kill him Not privately, a permission to do which, under pretence of the party’s being guilty of the crime in question, would have opened the door to innumerable murders; but by procuring his death through the sentence of the magistrate. Thy hand shall be first upon him As the witness of his crime; for he was to be stoned to death, and the accuser was to throw the first stone, together with the witnesses, Deuteronomy 17:7. This law, at first sight,... read more
Donald C. Fleming
Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 13:1-18
Warnings against idolatry (12:29-13:18)In Canaan the Israelites would meet many new temptations. Moses therefore warned them not to be curious about the religious practices of the former inhabitants, lest they copy them and corrupt their own religion (29-32). They were also to beware of the person who could apparently perform miracles and predict events. The test of the genuineness of the person was not whether his predictions came true, but whether he led people in the ways of God... read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 13:5
bondage = bondmen. See note on Deuteronomy 5:6 . eleven times in this book. So shalt thou put. . . away. This expression occurs put . . . away. Hebrew. ba'ar, to burn up in order to clear out. the evil = the wicked thing. Hebrew. ra'a. App-44 . read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 13:6-12
God or our brother. Terribly stern is the duty here laid on the person enticed to idolatry. The law is adapted to an age of stern deeds, and to a people living under a stern dispensation. Yet, reflecting on the nature of the crime, on the constitution of the Jewish state, and on the issues to mankind which hung on the slender thread of this one nation's fidelity, it is difficult to see how it could well have been less stern than it is. Its severity was perhaps its mercy. Note, too, that... read more