Detestable Sacrifices
You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God. Deu 15:21Mal 1:8Deu 23:18Deu 24:4Lev 22:20-25Mal 1:13-141Pe 1:19Deu 25:16
Purge the Idolater
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 Hos 8:1Jdg 2:202Ki 18:12Deu 13:6-18Deu 17:5Hos 6:7Jos 23:16Jos 7:11 and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden— Jer 7:31Deu 4:19Jer 19:5Jer 32:35Jer 7:22-23Job 31:26-272Ki 21:3Ezk 8:16 and if it is reported and you hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. Deu 13:12-14Deu 19:18Jhn 7:51Pro 25:2
If the report is true and such an abomination has happened in Israel, you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death. Lev 24:14Jos 7:25Lev 24:16Deu 13:10-11Deu 22:21Deu 22:24Deu 21:21 On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness. Heb 10:28Num 35:301Ti 5:19Deu 19:15Mat 18:16Jhn 8:17-182Co 13:1 The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you. 1 Deu 13:91Co 5:13Deu 13:5Deu 17:12Act 7:58-59Deu 19:19Deu 24:7Jdg 20:13
Courts of Law
If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose. Deu 12:5Hag 2:11Deu 1:171Ki 3:16-282Ch 19:8-10Deu 19:17Deu 19:4Exo 18:26 You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give you a verdict in the case. Ezk 44:24Hag 2:11Mal 2:7Deu 19:17-21Jer 18:18
You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you, Mat 22:2-3 according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you. Jos 1:71Pe 2:13-152Pe 2:102Sa 14:19Deu 17:20Deu 25:1Deu 28:14Deu 5:32
But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel. Deu 13:5Num 15:301Th 4:81Ti 5:20Deu 10:8Deu 17:7Deu 18:5Deu 18:7 Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will no longer behave arrogantly. Deu 13:11Deu 19:20Num 15:30-31
Guidelines for a King
(1 Samuel 8:1–9)
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” 1Sa 8:19-201Sa 12:191Sa 8:5-7Jos 1:13Deu 11:31Deu 12:9-10Deu 18:9Deu 26:1 you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers. Jer 30:211Ch 22:101Ch 12:231Sa 10:241Sa 16:12-131Sa 9:15-172Sa 5:2Jer 2:25
But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’ Isa 31:1-3Deu 28:68Ezk 17:15Hos 11:5Psa 20:71Ki 10:26-281Ki 4:26Exo 13:17 He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold. Neh 13:26Mat 19:5Pro 30:8-91Ki 11:1-4Gen 2:24Psa 62:10Mal 2:151Ti 6:17
When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. 2Ch 34:152Ki 11:122Ki 22:8Deu 31:24-26Deu 31:9 It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes. Jos 1:8Psa 119:97-100Psa 1:22Ti 3:15-17Jhn 5:39Deu 11:18Deu 4:10Deu 6:6-9 Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel. 1Ki 15:5Deu 5:32Dan 5:20-23Isa 2:12Psa 131:1-21Ki 11:12-131Ki 11:341Ki 11:36