Deuteronomy - 17:13 Meaning

“And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.”

King James Version (KJV)

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:8-13 Courts of judgment were to be set up in every city. Though their judgment had not the Divine authority of an oracle, it was the judgment of wise, prudent, experienced men, and had the advantage of a Divine promise.