diff --git a/.eslintrc b/.eslintrc
index 04d9c7ce38d..ca3ca2a7da5 100644
--- a/.eslintrc
+++ b/.eslintrc
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
         "no-shadow": "off",
         "no-sparse-arrays": "error",
         "no-template-curly-in-string": "off",
-        "no-throw-literal": "off",
+        "no-throw-literal": "error",
         "no-trailing-spaces": "off",
         "no-undef-init": "error",
         "no-unsafe-finally": "error",
diff --git a/scripts/importDefinitelyTypedTests/importDefinitelyTypedTests.ts b/scripts/importDefinitelyTypedTests/importDefinitelyTypedTests.ts
index f14eff609b1..9291714e929 100644
--- a/scripts/importDefinitelyTypedTests/importDefinitelyTypedTests.ts
+++ b/scripts/importDefinitelyTypedTests/importDefinitelyTypedTests.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ function main() {
     const [, progName, tscRoot, definitelyTypedRoot] = process.argv;
     if (process.argv.length !== 4) {
         if (process.argv.length < 2) {
-            throw "Expected at least 2 argv elements.";
+            throw new Error("Expected at least 2 argv elements.");
         }
         console.log("Usage:");
         console.log(`    node ${path.relative(__dirname, progName)} [TypeScript Repo Root] [DefinitelyTyped Repo Root]`);