Deuteronomy 17:4

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and if it is reported to you or you hear of it, and you make a thorough inquiry, and the charge is proved true that such an abhorrent thing has occurred in Israel,

Cross References

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.

John 7:51

“Our law does not judge people without first giving them a hearing to find out what they are doing, does it?”

Deuteronomy 13:15

you shall put the inhabitants of that town to the sword, utterly destroying it and everything in it—even putting its livestock to the sword.

Deuteronomy 17:3

by going to serve other gods and worshiping them—whether the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden—

Deuteronomy 17:5

then you shall bring out to your gates that man or that woman who has committed this crime and you shall stone the man or woman to death.

Deuteronomy 19:18

and the judges shall make a thorough inquiry. If the witness is a false witness, having testified falsely against another,

Deuteronomy 22:20

If, however, this charge is true, that evidence of the young woman's virginity was not found,