Deu 13:5-18, 17:2-7, 1Ki 18:40 | ESV | STEP | But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death , because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God , who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery , to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk . So you shall purge the evil from your midst .

Deuteronomy 13:5-18

5 But ^athat prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. ^bSo you shall purge the evil ^{▼▼Or evil person} from your midst.

6 ^d“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or ^ethe wife you embrace ^{▼▼Hebrew the wife of your bosom} or your friend ^gwho is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ ^hwhich neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 some ⁱof the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8 you shall ^jnot yield to him or listen to him, nor ^kshall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9 But you shall kill him. ^lYour hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 ^mYou shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 11 And ⁿall Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.

12 “If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to dwell there, 13 that certain ^oworthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, 14 then you shall inquire and make search and ask ^pdiligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you, 15 you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction, ^{▼▼That is, setting apart ( devoting) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)} all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. 16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and ^rburn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a ^sheap forever. It shall not be built again. 17 ^tNone of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, ^uthat the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, ^vas he swore to your fathers, 18 if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, ^wkeeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 17:2-7

2 ^x“If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, ^yin transgressing his covenant, 3 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or ^zthe sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, ^aawhich I have forbidden, 4 and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire ^abdiligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel, 5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you ^acshall stone that man or woman to death with stones. 6 ^adOn the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. 7 ^aeThe hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So ^afyou shall purge ^{▼▼Septuagint drive out; also verse 12} the evil ^{▼▼Or evil person; also verse 12} from your midst.

1 Kings 18:40

40 And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to ^aithe brook Kishon and ^ajslaughtered them there.