Deuteronomy 17:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

That will do presumptuously, i.e. that will proudly and obstinately oppose the sentence given against him. This is opposite to ignorance and error, Exodus 21:13,14. The evil; either,

1. The evil thing, that scandal, that pernicious example. Or,

2. That evil, refractory, pernicious person, whose practice herein tends to the dissolution of all government, and the ruin of the common-wealth of Israel.

Deuteronomy 17:12

12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.