If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities. — The only case of this kind is the case of Gibeah. We may fairly assume the abominations done there to have been connected with idolatry, from the allusions in Hosea 9:9; Hosea 10:9. But the outrage rather than the idolatry seems to have excited the indignation of Israel (see Judges 20:21). It is noticeable that in the remonstrance with the Benjamites at Gibeah — (Judges 20:13): “Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel” — there seems to be an allusion to the language of this chapter in Deuteronomy 13:5; Deuteronomy 13:11.
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Deuteronomy 13:12
12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,