John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 17:13
And all the people shall hear, and fear ,.... All the people of Israel in their own cities, and particularly the judges in those cities; they shall hear of what is done to the obstinate and disobedient elder, and shall be afraid to commit the like offence, lest they should come into the same punishment: and do no more presumptuously ; after his example; hence, Jarchi says, they wait till the feast comes, and then put him to death; and so it is said F11 Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 10. sect.... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 17:8-13
Courts of judgment were ordered to be erected in every city (Deut. 16:18), and they were empowered to hear and determine causes according to law, both those which we call pleas of the crown and those between party and party; and we may suppose that ordinarily they ended the matters that were brought before them, and their sentence was definitive; but, 1. It is here taken for granted that sometimes a case might come into their court too difficult for those inferior judges to determine, who... read more