Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Deuteronomy 16:22
Heb. statue, whether with a picture or representation, or without it, as the idolaters used to worship smoothed and polished stones or pillars without any image upon them.
Heb. statue, whether with a picture or representation, or without it, as the idolaters used to worship smoothed and polished stones or pillars without any image upon them.
These verses are closely connected in subject with the following chapter, and introduce certain directions for the administration of justice and the carrying on of the civil government of the people i...
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. THE DEUTERONOMIC LAWS OF THE THREE ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE FEASTS. These are adaptations of the older laws in Exodus 23:18 *, Exodus 34:18; Exodus 34:22 f. (general regulations);...
IMAGE. pillar....
Deuteronomy 16:21 to Deuteronomy 17:7. Isolated Group of Laws on Worship This group of laws against heathen symbols and blemished sacrifices and the worship of other gods all of them abominations to,...
Deuteronomy 16:21-22. Against the Use of "Asherim and Maṣṣeboth 21. _Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah plant_, because the "Asherah (see general note following) was either a mast or artificial tre...
LESSON FOURTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:18-20; DEUTERONOMY 17:2 TO DEUTERONOMY 18:22 e. THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ...
4. GENERAL RULES FOR OBSERVANCE (Deuteronomy 16:16-17; Deuteronomy 16:21-22; Deuteronomy 17:1) 16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which
_NEITHER SHALT THOU SET THEE UP ANY IMAGE; WHICH THE LORD THY GOD HATETH._ Neither shalt thou set thee up any image, х_ MATSEEBAAH_ (H4676)] - erroneously rendered so for 'pillar.' Pillars of various...
INJUNCTIONS REGARDING FEASTS, JUDGES, GROVES, AND IMAGES 1-8. On the Passover see Exodus 12 Leviticus 23:4; Numbers 28:16, and the notes on these passages. It will be observed that the general law of...
IMAGE] RV 'pillar': see on Exodus 24:4; Exodus 34:13....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 16 V1 ‘You must *celebrate the *Passover to the *LORD your God in the month called Abib. On a n...
IMAGE. — Explained by Rashi of a single stone, whether statue or pillar....
וְ לֹֽא ־תָקִ֥ים לְךָ֖ מַצֵּבָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׂנ
As the section dealing with the statutes commenced with the place of worship, it closed with the restatement of the importance of the great feasts which by their annual recurrence set the whole year i...
CHAPTER XVI. Statue. Hebrew matseba, means also a pillar, monument, heap of stones, image, title, &c., Genesis xxviii. --- Hateth, when they are designed for superstitious purposes. On other occasion...
REFLECTIONS BLESSED GOD! give me grace to observe, with holy joy and thankfulness, the solemn seasons of thine appointment, in communication of thy mercies. I would pray indeed for the leadings of the...
Is it not astonishing that a people so highly favored of GOD should need such precepts as these to keep them from idolatry? But alas! even in gospel days, and under a better dispensation, established...
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...
22._Neither shalt thou set thee up. _Hence also it more clearly appears what is the meaning and tendency of the Second Commandment. God elsewhere commands, (100) (as we have seen,) that statues (101)...
Chapter 16 connects the people with the dwelling-place of Jehovah, by solemnities in which He surrounds Himself with His people, blessed and happy in the deliverance which He has granted them under Hi...
NEITHER SHALT THOU SET UP ANY IMAGE,.... Graven or molten, of man, beast, fish, or fowl; the word signifies a "statue or pillar" c which was set up for idolatry; for, as Aben Ezra observes, what was n...
1 The feast of the Passeouer, 9 of Weekes, 13 of Tabernacles. 16 Euery male must offer, as he is able, at these three Feasts. 18 Of Iudges and Iustice. 22 Groues and Images are forbidden. 1 OBSER...
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image, statue or pillar, such as were erected in honor of Baal, Exodus 23:33; WHICH THE LORD, THY GOD, HATETH. The constant repetition of the same precept serves the...
PRECEPTS OF RIGHT JUDGMENT...
INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE PASSOVER (vs.1-8) The Passover, held in the first month of the year, was to celebrate Israel's deliverance from Egypt (v.1), but more importantly, to look forward to the death...
IMAGE: Or, statue, or pillar...
18-22 Care is taken for the due administration of justice. All personal regards must be laid aside, so that right is done to all, and wrong to none. Care is taken to prevent following the idolatrous...
We now approach one of the most profound and comprehensive sections of the Book of Deuteronomy, in which the inspired writer presents to our view what we may call the three great cardinal feasts of th...
Deuteronomy 16:22 up H6965 (H8686) pillar H4676 LORD H3068 God H430 hates H8130 (H8804) image - or, statue, or pillar,...
A BAN ON ALL RELIGIOUS OBJECTS AND BEHAVIOUR WHICH WOULD DISHONOUR YAHWEH AND MAKE THEM UNFIT AS JUDGES (DEUTERONOMY 16:21 TO DEUTERONOMY 17:1). It is quite possible that certain matters of justice am...
CONTENTS: Laws concerning annual feasts. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: By frequent and regular meeting to worship God at appointed places and by recognized rules, we are kept faithful and cons...
Deuteronomy 16:3. _Bread of affliction,_ unleavened bread; for while the Egyptians afflicted them, they had not time to prepare their food in a proper manner. Deuteronomy 16:10. _The feast of weeks;_...
_Thou shalt not plant thee a grove._ IDOLATRY FORBIDDEN I. Idolatry is enticing. This on many accounts. 1. By its prevalence. In some form or other it is the most popular religion in the world. Men...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 16:21 TREE AS AN ASHERAH... PILLAR. See note on 7:5. Canaanite worship items were to be destroyed ...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 16:18 Most of these laws are about the various leaders for Israel. Leaders, like parents, exercise God’s authority toward those under them. This section recalls the fif...
CRITICAL NOTES.—The religious ordinances to be observed in Canaan are continued. Three great festivals are prominently mentioned—Feast of Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. Former regulations concer...
EXPOSITION CELEBRATION OF THE PASSOVER FESTIVAL, THE FEAST OF PENTECOST AND OF TABERNACLES. APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF J
In chapter sixteen we now deal with the various feasts that they were to observe when they came into the land. We have rehearsed these as we went through earlier in the book of Exodus and all. You're...
Deuteronomy 12:31; Exodus 20:4; Jeremiah 44:4; Leviticus 26:1;...