or a charmer, a magician, or a consulter with familiar spirits, one who has power over spirits and inquires of them, or a wizard, a man with all the wisdom of the occult arts, or a necromancer, one who cites the spirits of the dead. All these practices, as they grow out of idolatry, are found to the present day, and the loathing of the Lord has not changed since that time.
Verse Deuteronomy 18:11. _A CHARMER_] חבר חבר _chober chaber_, one who uses _spells_; a peculiar _conjunction_, as the term implies, of _words_, or things, tying knots, c., for the purposes of divinat...
A CHARMER - i. e., one who fascinates and subdues noxious animals or men, such as the famous serpent-charmers of the East Psalms 58:4. A CONSULTER WITH FAMILIAR SPIRITS ... A WIZARD - Compare Levitic...
14. THE RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES, THE TRUE AND THE FALSE PROPHET CHAPTER 18 _ 1. The rights of the priests and Levites (Deuteronomy 18:1)_ 2. Forbidden things (Deuteronomy 18:9) kite h...
CONCERNING THE PROPHET. The Israelites are to consult Yahweh through His accredited messenger the prophet, and not through diviners who seek oracles by heathen methods. There is no parallel law in JE...
FAMILIAR SPIRITS. See note on Leviticus 19:31. NECROMANCER. a seeker unto the dead;. medium....
_a charmer_ With Sam. LXX omit _or_: the name is in apposition to the preceding. Heb. _ḥober heber, weaving spells, spell-binder_; either of the tying of knots as malignant charms, common among Semite...
Of Prophets in contrast to Diviners, etc. In the promised land Israel must have nothing to do with the abominations of its peoples (Deuteronomy 18:9); with any one passing his children through the fi...
_VER._ 11. _OR A CHARMER_— in the Hebrew חבר חבר _chober chober, jungens junctionem._ The word חבר _chober,_ says Parkhurst, signifies _to charm,_ or, by pretended _incantations,_ to _collect serpents...
LESSON FOURTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:18-20; DEUTERONOMY 17:2 TO DEUTERONOMY 18:22 e. THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ...
(4) PROPHETS (Deuteronomy 18:9-22) 9 When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found...
_OR A CHARMER, OR A CONSULTER WITH FAMILIAR SPIRITS, OR A WIZARD, OR A NECROMANCER._ Or a charmer, х_ WªCHOBER_ (H2266) _ CHAABER_ (H2267)] - a binder with magic knots or spells (cf. Psalms 58:5). [S...
18:11 Python, (a-12) Or 'a necromancer.'...
CHARMER] one who TIES KNOTS, weaves magic spells and curses. CONSUITER WITH FAMILIAR SPIRITS, OR A WIZARD] lit. 'one who consults a ghost or familiar spirit,' probably a ventriloquist who professes to...
THE PRIESTLY DUES. CHARACTER AND WORK OF THE TRUE PROPHET 1-8. The Priestly dues: see on Numbers 18....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 18 V1 ‘The priests are *Levites. They and all the *tribe called Levi, will not have any share o...
(9-14) Certain forms of idolatry to be avoided, especially unlawful means of communication with the unseen world....
CHARMER. — Literally _one who ties knots,_ used here for the first time in Old Testament. CONSULTER WITH FAMILIAR SPIRITS. — Literally, _one who consulteth ôb_ (see Leviticus 19:31). A WIZARD. — One...
וְ חֹבֵ֖ר חָ֑בֶר וְ שֹׁאֵ֥ל אֹוב֙ וְ
SPEAKERS FOR GOD - III. THE PROPHET Deuteronomy 18:9. THE third of the Divine voices to this nation was the prophet. Just as in the other Semitic nations round about Israel there were kings and prie...
THE PROPHET WHO WAS TO COME Deuteronomy 18:1 Those that serve the altar may live by the altar. Let us not forget the needs of those who serve us in holy things. It is a blessed thing when an individu...
In dealing with the priest who was already found among the people by the appointment of God, the fact that he was to have no inheritance in the land was restated. Then a special provision was made for...
Charmer of serpents, Psalm lvii. 6. One who makes a compact with the devil. --- Spirits. Python was the name of the serpent which Apollo slew. It might be derived from the Hebrew patah, "to seduce," b...
It is wonderful to observe, how much Moses was led to speak to the people against the idolatry of the neighboring nations around them. As if the LORD meant to convey by the frequency of his precepts o...
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...
The priests and the whole tribe of Levi have their portion assigned to them. The people are forbidden to do after those abominations, on account of which the nations which inhabited the land were driv...
OR A CHARMER,.... That pretends to cure diseases by charms, or a charmer of serpents; according to Jarchi, one that gathers together serpents and scorpions, and other animals, into one place; with whi...
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. Ver. 11. _Or a necromancer._] Bellarmine and other Papists play the necromancers, when they would prove a Purgatory...
_Or a charmer_ One that charmeth serpents or other creatures. Or rather, as the Hebrew חבר חבר, _chober chaber_, seems to mean, _an astrologer_, or such as, by the conjunction of the planets, pretende...
1 The Lord is the Priests and Leuites inheritance. 3 The Priests due. 6 The Leuites portion. 9 The abominations of the Nations are to bee auoyded. 15 Christ the Prophet is to be heard. 20 The pre...
PRIESTS AND LEVITES: THEIR DUE (vs.1-8) The proper support of the priests and Levites is again insisted on. Since they were given no inheritance in the land, and were separated to care for the intere...
9-14 Was it possible that a people so blessed with Divine institutions, should ever be in any danger of making those their teachers whom God had made their captives? They were in danger; therefore, a...
A CHARMER; one that charmeth serpents or other cattle, PSALMS 58:5; or, a FORTUNE-TELLER, that foretelleth the events of men's lives by the conjunctions of the stars, &c. SEE POOLE ON "LEVITICUS 19:31...
The opening paragraph of this chapter suggests a deeply interesting and practical line of truth. "The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; th...
Deuteronomy 18:11 conjures H2266 (H8802) spells H2267 medium H7592 (H8802) H178 spiritist H3049 dead H1875
ASSOCIATION WITH THE OCCULT IS BANNED (DEUTERONOMY 18:9). The nations in the land into which they were about to enter practised all kinds of abominations, things that were hateful to Yahweh. These oc...
CONTENTS: Laws concerning Levites, idolatrous practices and prophets. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Christ. CONCLUSION: God has made Himself known to men through One above all prophets (Acts 3:22; Acts 7:3...
Deuteronomy 18:1. _They shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire._ The sin- offerings, except the skin and the fat, which were burnt on the altar. The ecclesiastics having relinquished the two...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 18:9 ABOMINABLE PRACTICES OF THOSE NATIONS. See note on 12:2–3. BURNS HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER AS AN OFFERING. See...
CRITICAL NOTES.—After speaking of the rulers of the people, Moses now mentions the teachers priests, Levites, and prophets; and what their privileges and position must be in their settlement in Canaan...
EXPOSITION RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES. THE ARTS OF DIVINATION OF THE HEATHEN TO BE AVOIDED. PROPHETS PROMISED WHOM...
Now again he repeats how the tribe of Levi is not to be given any portion of the land but they will eat the offerings that were given unto the Lord made by fire as their inheritance for the Lord is th...
1 Samuel 28:11...
A charmer — One that charmeth serpents or other cattle. Or, a fortune — teller, that foretelleth the events of men's lives by the conjunctions of the stars. Spirits — Whom they call upon by certain wo...
How can the command for wholesale slaughter of innocent lives be justified? (See comments on Joshua 6:21) Deuteronomy 20:16-18 —Were the captives to be spared or killed? PROBLEM: In Deuteronomy 20:11;...