Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Deuteronomy 12:4
i.e. Not worship him in several places, mountains, groves, &c., which sense is evident from the following opposition.
i.e. Not worship him in several places, mountains, groves, &c., which sense is evident from the following opposition.
i. e., “The idolaters set up their altars and images on any high hill, and under every green tree at their pleasure, but ye shall not do so; the Lord Himself shall determine the spot for your worship,...
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...
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...
I. First Division of the Laws: on Worship and Religious Institutions Deuteronomy 12:2 to Deuteronomy 16:17; Deuteronomy 16:21 to...
_VER._ 4. _YE SHALL NOT DO SO UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD_— That is, "Ye shall not adore him _upon mountains, upon hills,_ and _under every green tree;_ but you shall serve him publicly in one place which...
LESSON NINE DEUTERONOMY 12:1-28 B. THE LAW (the Statutes and Ordinances) (Deuteronomy 12:1 to Deuteronomy 26:19) 1. ONE SANCTUARY ...
_YE SHALL NOT DO SO UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
YE SHALL NOT DO SO] i.e. worship Jehovah in the places where the Canaanites worshipped their gods....
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...
YE SHALL NOT DO SO — i.e. shall not serve Him upon the high mountains, and hills, and under every green tree, after the manner of the nations....
לֹֽא ־תַעֲשׂ֣וּן כֵּ֔ן לַ יהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃...
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...
Ye shall (c) not do so unto the LORD your God. (c) You shall not serve the Lord with superstitions....
Nothing can be truly reared to GOD'S honor but what hath GOD'S glory in view. Sweet was that precept given with this view. An altar to GOD must he of GOD. If man lifts anything of his own upon it he h...
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...
4_Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God. _The principal distinction, as far as regards the external exercises of devotion, is here laid down between the legitimate worship of God, and all the fict...
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...
YE SHALL NOT DO SO UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD. Not sacrifice to him on hills and mountains, and under green trees; though the Jews commonly refer this to the destruction of the names of God, and of any th...
Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. Ver. 4. _Ye shall not do so._] As wicked Ahaz did, 2Ch 28:24 by the advice and help of Uriah, that turn-coat, 2Ki 16:10-12 who had once passed for a faithfu...
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...
Ye shall not do so unto the Lord, your God, that is, not select any place that pleased their fancy for His worship....
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...
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 12:4 worship H6213 (H8799) LORD H3068 God H430 Deuteronomy 12:30-31,...
THEY MUST BE OBEDIENT TO HIS COVENANT AND DESTROY ALL THAT IS RELATED TO IDOLATRY (DEUTERONOMY 12:1). Deuteronomy 12:1 ‘ These are the statutes and the ordinances which you (ye) shall observe to do...
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...
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 12:4 They should not use Canaanite religious places and objects to worship the Lord. ⇐...
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...
Deuteronomy 12:30; Deuteronomy 12:31; Deuteronomy 16:21; Deuteronomy 16:22;...
Not do so — That is, not worship him in several places, mountains, and groves....