Deuteronomy 13

The reading today is exclusively focused on God's command to the Israelites not to be tempted to follow other gods, and furthermore to put to death any person on group who tries to seduce them away from Him. The directness of that order makes quite an impact: even if the person in question is your wife you are to have her stoned, and if a city falls away from God then the whole city is to be slaughtered and offered with their possessions as an offering to the Lord. That shows how serious God is about such things, but it also makes me wonder if a city as a whole ever had to be purged like that. I'll try to keep a lookout for such events as I continue to read through the Old Testament.