Now when `Eved-Melekh the Kushite, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Yirmeyahu in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Binyamin),
Deuteronomy 21:19 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, American Standard Version (1901) then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; Common English Bible the father and mother will take the son before the elders of that city at its gates. Catholic Public Domain Version they shall take him and lead him to the elders of the city and to the gate of judgment. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of his city, and to the gate of judgment: |
Now when `Eved-Melekh the Kushite, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Yirmeyahu in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Binyamin),
It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of the LORD;' and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.
Shofetim and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain:
and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Yisra'el; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.