Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 13:13

13 Certain men, the children of Belial , are gone out from among you , and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (which ye have not known:)

A title oft used in Scripture, as Iudg. 19. 22. 1 Sam. 1. 16. and 25. 25. 2 Sam. 16. 7. It signifies properly persons without yoke, vile and wretched miscreants, lawless and rebellious, that will suffer no restraint, that neither fear God, nor reverence man.

(i. e.) From your Church and Religion. It notes a separation or departure from them not in place (as appears by their partnership with their fellow Citizens both in the sin and punishment, as it here follows) but in heart, doctrine and worship, as the same phrase is used, 1 Iob. 2. 19.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 word] men. 1 Sam. [illegible: 1+ letters] 12. and 25. [illegible: 1 word] 2 Cor. 6. 1[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪