Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Deuteronomy 17:12
Do presumptuously — That will proudly and obstinately oppose the sentence given against him. The evil — The evil thing, that scandal, that pernicious example.
Do presumptuously — That will proudly and obstinately oppose the sentence given against him. The evil — The evil thing, that scandal, that pernicious example.
Verse Deuteronomy 17:12. _THE MAN THAT WILL DO PRESUMPTUOUSLY_] The man who refused to abide by this final determination forfeited his life, as being then in a state of _rebellion_ against the highest...
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 ...
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...
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
_presumptuously_ See on Deuteronomy 1:43 and cp. Deuteronomy 18:20. _unto the priest … or unto the judge_ Again no information is given as to how the cases are to be divided between the two. D's sole...
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...
_VER._ 12. _THE MAN THAT—WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO THE PRIEST,_ &C.— By _priest_ in this place is thought to be meant the high-priest; or it may be put for _priests,_ the enallage of numbers being frequen...
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...
וְ הָ אִ֞ישׁ אֲשֶׁר ־יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה בְ זָדֹ֗ון
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...
And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to (h) minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt pu...
And the decree. Some copies read with Sixtus V ex decreto, by &c., "decree," (Haydock) as if a lay-judge stood ready to put the sentence in execution. (Calmet) --- But there was no necessity of any fa...
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...
He pronounces a similar punishment on those who shall have contumaciously rejected the judgment of the priests. We have already seen that the prophetical office was united with the priesthood; since,...
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...
Ver. 12 AND THE MAN THAT WILL DO PRESUMPTUOUSLY,.... The judge of the country court that makes his application to that at Jerusalem for information and direction; if, after all, he is conceited in his...
_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...
And the man that will do presumptuously, act with haughty insolence, AND WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO THE PRIEST THAT STANDETH TO MINISTER THERE BEFORE THE LORD, THY GOD, acting as mediator between Jehovah a...
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS TO BE DECIDED BY THE PRIEST...
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...
AND WILL NOT HEARKEN: _ Heb._ not to hearken...
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...
THAT WILL DO PRESUMPTUOUSLY, i.e. that will proudly and obstinately oppose the sentence given against him. This is opposite to ignorance and error, EXODUS 21:13,14. THE EVIL; either, 1. The evil thin...
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 17:12 man H376 acts H6213 (H8799) presumptuously H2087 heed H8085 (H8800) priest H3548 stands H5975
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 Thessalonians 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:8; 1 Timothy 5:20; Deuteronomy 10:8;...