Quotes about Authority
This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”
— Deuteronomy 2:25
He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
— Deuteronomy 7:24
Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
— Deuteronomy 11:24
Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.
— Deuteronomy 12:3
You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.
— Deuteronomy 12:8
Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
— Deuteronomy 13:9
Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.
— Deuteronomy 13:11
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.
— Deuteronomy 17:5
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.
— Deuteronomy 17:8
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.
— Deuteronomy 17:9
You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you,
— Deuteronomy 17:10
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.
— Deuteronomy 17:11