according to the sentence of the Law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do, conform exactly to the decision of the supreme court; thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show thee, to the right hand nor to the left, since the decision would rest upon the Law of Jehovah, with which the priests were to have a perfect acquaintance.
The cases in question are such as the inferior judges did not feel able to decide satisfactorily, and which accordingly they remitted to their superiors (compare Exodus 18:23). The Supreme court Deute...
13. JUSTICE AND THE CHOICE OF A KING Chapter S 16:18-17:20 _ 1. Appointment of judges and their instruction (Deuteronomy 16:18; Deuteronomy 17:1)_ 2. The higher court at the place He chooses ...
DEUTERONOMY 16:21- DEUTERONOMY 17:7. LAWS DEMANDING PURE WORSHIP AND SUITABLE SACRIFICES. This breaks the connexion; its proper place is probably between Deuteronomy 12 and Deuteronomy 13. Deuterono
A central tribunal to be established (at Jerusalem) to try cases too hard for the local courts (Deuteronomy 16:18); see Deuteronomy 1:9 *. Deuteronomy 17:8. Two (three?) sample cases are mentioned, vi...
THEY SHALL TEACH THEE. This was the great duty of the Priests. See Deuteronomy 33:10; Leviticus 10:11.Ezra 7:10; Jeremiah 18:18;...
_law_ Heb. _torah_, usually of the _directions_given by priests in questions of ritual, covers here their decisions in civil cases as well. _Teach_, rather _direct_, is the vb from which _Torah_is der...
Of the Judges of Final Appeal Local cases too hard for the local courts (see Deuteronomy 16:18-20, on which this passage immediately follows) are to be taken before the Priests, the Levites at the Sa...
Deuteronomy 17:2-13 2 If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in...
LESSON FOURTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:18-20; DEUTERONOMY 17:2 TO DEUTERONOMY 18:22 e. THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ...
_AND THOU SHALT COME UNTO THE PRIESTS THE LEVITES, AND UNTO THE JUDGE THAT SHALL BE IN THOSE DAYS, AND INQUIRE; AND THEY SHALL SHEW THEE THE SENTENCE OF JUDGMENT:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY. CONTROVERSIES TO BE SETTLED BY PRIESTS AND JUDGES. ELECTION AND DUTIES OF A KING 1. Cp. Leviticus 22:17....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 17 V1 ‘If any sheep or *cattle are not perfect, do not *sacrifice them to the *LORD your God. Th...
Deuteronomy 17:8. THE SUPREMACY IN ISRAEL OF THE WRITTEN LAW OF GOD. (8) IF THERE ARISE A MATTER TOO HARD FOR THEE. — Literally, _too wonderful._ BETWEEN BLOOD AND BLOOD, BETWEEN PLEA AND PLEA, AND B...
עַל ־פִּ֨י הַ תֹּורָ֜ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר יֹור֗וּךָ וְ
Continuing the discourse commenced in the previous chapter, we find insistence on the fact that no false sacrifices must be offered and no false worshipers permitted to approach. For dealing with such...
According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, (g) thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall...
According, &c. This law was to be the rule of the priests, in passing sentence. It was not left to the judgment of individuals to comply or not, according as they might explain the law for themselves....
The apostle Paul from the case of the presumptuous man here noticed, takes occasion to draw a very striking inference in his Epistle to the Hebrews, in those who tread underfoot the SON of GOD, and co...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
Verse 18 [from Chapter 16] (Deuteronomy 16:18) begins a new subject: the pains taken, and the instruments used, to preserve the blessing and execute the judgments necessary to that effect. The thought...
ACCORDING TO THE SENTENCE OF THE LAW WHICH THEY SHALL TEACH THEE,.... For they were not to make any new law, but to teach the law of God, and so far as their sense and opinion of things agreed with th...
_Thou shalt do according to the sentence_ He speaks, 1st, To the inferior magistrates, who, in the suits here referred to between man and man, were to give sentence in their lower courts, according to...
1 The things sacrificed must bee sound. 2 Idolaters must bee slaine. 8 Hard controuersies are to bee determined by the Priests and Iudges. 12 The contemner of that Determination must die. 14 The e...
RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT (This Continues the subject of) (chap.16:13 to 17:11) This continues the subject of righteous government. The guilt of offering a blemished sacrifice to the Lord must incur sev...
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 o...
ACCORDING TO THE SENTENCE OF THE LAW WHICH THEY SHALL TEACH THEE: these words are a manifest limitation of the foregoing assertion, that they were to do according to all that the judge or judges infor...
We must remember that the division of scripture into Chapter s and verses is entirely a human arrangement, often very convenient, no doubt, for reference; but not infrequently it is quite unwarrantabl...
Deuteronomy 17:11 sentence H6310 law H8451 instruct H3384 (H8686) judgment H4941 tell H559 (H8799) do H6213
THE PLACE OF FINAL APPEAL (DEUTERONOMY 17:8). But if a case was brought which was too hard for the local justices to decide, there was to be a final place of appeal made up of the levitical priests an...
CONTENTS: Laws concerning idolaters and obedience to authority and kings. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God would possess men with a dread of that sin worshipping false gods which is a sin in...
Deuteronomy 17:3. _Either sun or moon._ This would be going back to Sabianism, which from the dispersion of Babel became the religion of Asia, as stated in Job 1:15. Deuteronomy 17:8. A matter too har...
_Thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations._ HEATHEN ABOMINATIONS AVOIDED One reason to shun the practices of idolatry springs from the nature of the evils themselves. 1. Th...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 17:10 The decision of the central sanctuary court is final. THAT MAN SHALL DIE. Refusal to follow the ruling of the court is itself a capital offense, for it is a rejec...
CRITICAL REMARKS.—Israel not only had tendency to idolatry, but inclination to offer animals with faults and to transgress the laws of worship. _Blemishes_ named in Leviticus 22. Deuteronomy 17:2. Ido...
EXPOSITION SACRIFICES TO BE OF ANIMALS UNBLEMISHED. IDOLATERS TO BE SOUGHT OUT, CONVICTED, AND PUT TO DEATH. THE HIGHER JUDICIAL COURT
As you've discovered by now the book of Deuteronomy is sort of a review of the law. The word itself indicates the second law. It is a review by Moses for the people. Really a final review because Mose...
1 Peter 2:13; 2 Peter 2:10; 2 Samuel 14:19; Deuteronomy 17:20;...
Thou shalt do — In particular suits between man and man, altho' the judge be hereby confined to his rule in giving the sentence, yet it seems but fit and reasonable that people should be bound simply...