Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Deuteronomy 12:3
Their pillars, upon which their images were set. The names of them, i.e. all the memorials of them, and the very names given to the places from the idols.
Their pillars, upon which their images were set. The names of them, i.e. all the memorials of them, and the very names given to the places from the idols.
Verse Deuteronomy 12:3. _YE SHALL OVERTHROW THEIR ALTARS_] Where unholy sacrifices have been offered; _and break their pillars_, probably meaning statues and representations of their gods cut out of...
THEIR GROVES - Render their idols of wood: and see the Deuteronomy 7:5 note....
8. THE PLACE OF WORSHIP CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The overthrow of false worship (Deuteronomy 12:1)_ 2. The true place of worship (Deuteronomy 12:5) 3. Concerning eating and the blood (D
THE LAW OF ONE SANCTUARY. The local sanctuaries (originally Canaanite) with everything belonging to them, are to be destroyed, and all sacrifices are to be offered at the place which Yahweh should cho...
BREAK. smash. PILLARS. These "menhirs" constantly dug up to-day. groves. Hebrew. _'asherah._ See App-42. GRAVEN IMAGES. sculptures, as in Deuteronomy 7:25. DESTROY. cause to perish. Hebrew. _'abad._...
I. First Division of the Laws: on Worship and Religious Institutions Deuteronomy 12:2 to Deuteronomy 16:17; Deuteronomy 16:21 to...
First Statement of the Law of the One Altar In the Pl. address, with one later insertion, Deuteronomy 12:3, and possibly another Deuteronomy 12:5 _b_; the rest is a unity. It appropriately opens with...
LESSON NINE DEUTERONOMY 12:1-28 B. THE LAW (the Statutes and Ordinances) (Deuteronomy 12:1 to Deuteronomy 26:19) 1. ONE SANCTUARY ...
_AND YE SHALL OVERTHROW THEIR ALTARS, AND BREAK THEIR PILLARS, AND BURN THEIR GROVES WITH FIRE; AND YE SHALL HEW DOWN THE GRAVEN IMAGES OF THEIR GODS, AND DESTROY THE NAMES OF THEM OUT OF THAT PLACE._...
12:3 Asherahs (f-15) See Exodus 34:13 ....
THE ABOLITION OF IDOLATROUS PLACES. THE CENTRALISATION OF WORSHIP. ABSTINENCE FROM BLOOD The larger section of the Second Discourse begins here and extends to the end of Deuteronomy 26. It consists of...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 12 V1 ‘You must be careful to *keep these rules and laws for as long as you live in the country...
DESTROY THE NAMES. — The substitution in later times of _bosheth_ for _baal_ in the names Jerubbaal (Jerubbesheth), Eshbaal (Ishbosheth), Meribbaal (Mephibosheth), is a curious example of the literal...
וְ נִתַּצְתֶּ֣ם אֶת ־מִזְבּחֹתָ֗ם וְ שִׁבַּרְתֶּם֙...
LAWS OF SACRIFICE Deuteronomy 12:1. IT is a characteristic of all the earlier codes of law-the Book of the Covenant, the Deuteronomic Code, and the Law of Holiness-that at the head of the series of l...
Having thus repeated the great words of the Law and called the people to obedience, Moses now proceeded to deal with the statutes and judgments, and, first, the statutes. In dealing with these he com...
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their (b) groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that plac...
_Statues. The most ancient idols were not finely carved, but only rough stones. The Phrygian goddess, sent to Rome by Attalus, was a small dark-coloured stone of this nature. (Arnob., contra Gentes. 8...
He that is at peace with GOD in CHRIST, is at war with all the enemies of GOD and CHRIST. Reader! if your body be really a temple of the HOLY GHOST, all idol worship is your abhorrence. See 2 Corinthi...
In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 12 AND 13. The second division begins with chapter 12, and contains the statutes and ordinances they were bound to observe. It is not a repetition of the old...
AND YOU SHALL OVERTHROW THEIR ALTARS,.... Which were of stone, as Jarchi observes; whereas the altar ordered to be made by the Lord, before the altar of burnt offering in the tabernacle was made, was...
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place....
1 Monuments of Idolatrie are to be destroyed. 5 The place of Gods seruice is to be kept. 15.23 Blood is forbidden. 17.20.26 Holy things must bee eaten in the Holy place. 19 The Leuite is not to be f...
and ye shall overthrow, tear down, THEIR ALTARS, upon which the sacrifices of idolatry were made, AND BREAK THEIR PILLARS, the statues of their idols, AND BURN THEIR GROVES WITH FIRE; AND YE SHALL HEW...
CONCERNING THE PLACE OF WORSHIP AND SACRIFICES...
ONE CENTER OF WORSHIP (vs.1-28) To prepare for proper worship in the land, Israel must utterly destroy those in which the nations before them served their idols. This was commonly done in high places...
OVERTHROW: _ Heb._ break down...
1-4 Moses comes to the statutes he had to give in charge to Israel; and begins with such as relate to the worship of God. The Israelites are charged not to bring the rites and usages of idolaters into...
We now enter upon a new section of our marvellous book. The discourses contained in the first eleven Chapter s having established the all-important principle of obedience, we now come to the practical...
Deuteronomy 12:3 destroy H5422 (H8765) altars H4196 break H7665 (H8765) pillars H4676 burn H8313 (H8799) imag
CONTENTS: Statements of conditions of blessing in the land. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: We must not think that our religion is only for our years of servitude or our entertainment in the pla...
Deuteronomy 12:5. _The place which the Lord shall choose._ No place is here named; for the Lord was content, and most significantly, to dwell in the tent. He sojourned in the desert; and afterwards re...
_If there arise among you a prophet._ ON THE CRITERION OF A FALSE MIRACLE I. The evidence drawn from miracles, in favour of any Divine revelation, rests in general on the testimony of those who saw t...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 12:1 Moses’ Second Speech: Specific Covenant Stipulations. In this second part of Moses’ second speech, he discusses in more detail the things he discussed in the first...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 12:2 When the Israelites enter Canaan, they are to destroy all the existing worship centers. Canaanite religion focused on fertility. It set up its shrines on MOUNTAINS...
CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses now begins an exposition of the principal laws which must govern the people in their ecclesiastical, civil, and domestic life in Canaan. The religious life of Israel is described...
EXPOSITION ANNOUNCEMENT OF PARTICULAR LAWS. CHAPTERS 12-26. Moses, having in his first address cast a glance at the events which had transpired between Sinai and the plains of Moab, and in his second...
In chapter twelve he gives the conditions whereby they should enjoy the blessings within the land. First of all they are to utterly destroy all of the places, where there the people that inhabited the...
1 Kings 15:13; 2 Chronicles 14:3; 2 Chronicles 19:3; 2 Chronicles 31:1;...
Pillars — Upon which their images were set. Names — That is, all the memorials of them, and the very names given to the places from the idols....