Verse Deuteronomy 17:16. _HE SHALL NOT MULTIPLY HORSES_] As _horses_ appear to have been generally furnished by Egypt, God prohibits these, 1. Lest there should be such commerce with Egypt as might l...
The horse was not anciently used in the East for purposes of agriculture or traveling, but ordinarily for war only. He appears constantly in Scripture as the symbol and embodiment of fleshly strength...
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 ...
LAW ABOUT THE KING THAT IS TO BE. This deals exclusively with the theocratic aspect peculiar to D: the picture of the ideal king here drawn was probably suggested by way of contrast to the reigning ki...
Of the King When Israel elect to have a King like other nations, he must be chosen of God, an Israelite and no foreigner (Deuteronomy 17:14 f.). He must not multiply horses, wives nor silver and gold...
_Only_ Heb. _raḳ_, see on Deuteronomy 10:15. _he shall not multiply horses_, etc.] On the horse in Israel, see _Jerusalem_i. 324 f. Horses came from N. to S. in W. Asia, probably from Asia Minor. Brou...
_VER._ 16. _HE SHALL NOT MULTIPLY HORSES TO HIMSELF_— The injunction here laid being to prevent all commerce with Egypt, we must conclude that Egypt supplied other nations with horses; but it may give...
LESSON FOURTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:18-20; DEUTERONOMY 17:2 TO DEUTERONOMY 18:22 e. THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ...
(2) KINGS (Deuteronomy 17:14-20) 14 When thou art come unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like al...
_BUT HE SHALL NOT MULTIPLY HORSES TO HIMSELF, NOR CAUSE THE PEOPLE TO RETURN TO EGYPT, TO THE END THAT HE SHOULD MULTIPLY HORSES: FORASMUCH AS THE LORD HATH SAID UNTO YOU, YE SHALL HENCEFORTH RETURN N...
THE PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY. CONTROVERSIES TO BE SETTLED BY PRIESTS AND JUDGES. ELECTION AND DUTIES OF A KING 1. Cp. Leviticus 22:17....
NOT MULTIPLY HORSES] The horse is here forbidden, not as an article of luxury but as an instrument of warfare, in which the kings of Israel are not to trust: cp. Psalms 20:7; Psalms 33:16; Psalms 147:...
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 17:14. THE LAW OF THE KINGDOM. (14) WHEN THOU ART COME UNTO THE LAND. — These are not the words of a legislator who is already in the land. Those who say that this law dates from later ti...
רַק֮ לֹא ־יַרְבֶּה ־לֹּ֣ו סוּסִים֒ וְ לֹֽא
THE SPEAKERS FOR GOD - I. THE KING Deuteronomy 17:14 IN approaching the main section of the legislation it will be necessary, in accordance with the expository character of the series to which this...
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...
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to (k) Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth retur...
Horses. Josue and David rendered the captured horses useless, (Josue xi. 6., and 2 Kings viii. 4,) and the judges rode on asses, Judges x. 4., and xii. 14. Solomon began to keep some, and in his days...
JESUS chose the humblest of animals when he rode triumphant to the temple. Matthew 21:5....
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...
16_But he shall not multiply horses. _The royal power is here circumscribed within certain limits, lest it should exalt itself too much in reliance on the glory of its dignity, (70) For we know how in...
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...
BUT HE SHALL NOT MULTIPLY HORSES TO HIMSELF,.... That he might not put his trust and confidence in outward things, as some are apt to trust in horses and chariots; and that he might not tyrannise over...
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no...
_He shall not multiply horses_ Though he might have horses for his own use, yet he was not to have many horses for his officers and guard, much less for war, lest he should trust in them. The multiply...
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...
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, make their raising his special avocation or even vocation, NOR CAUSE THE PEOPLE TO RETURN TO EGYPT, TO THE END THAT HE SHOULD MULTIPLY HORSES, for the Egyp...
OF THE OFFICE OF AN EVENTUAL KING...
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...
14-20 God himself was in a particular manner Israel's King; and if they set another over them, it was necessary that he should choose the person. Accordingly, when the people desired a king, they app...
HE SHALL NOT MULTIPLY HORSES TO HIMSELF, to wit, excessively, beyond what the state and majesty of his place required. Hereby God would prevent many sins and mischiefs, as, 1. Pride of heart, and con...
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...
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REQUIREMENTS FOR ANY FUTURE KING (DEUTERONOMY 17:14). Having been speaking of ‘the Judge' who would have authority over Israel took, and being very much aware of the people's weaknesses and willingnes...
Deuteronomy 17:16 It is not now necessary to trace the historical connection of this fragment of a verse. It forms an appropriate motto and admonition for the close of the year. I. The close of a yea...
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...
_Ye shall henceforth return no more that way._ NEVER AGAIN Touching and sad is the last look of the emigrant leaving his old home and the white cliffs of his native land. Some partings have in them...
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 Kings 1:5; 1 Kings 10:26; 1 Kings 4:26; 1 Samuel 8:11; 2 Chr
He shall not multiply horses — Tho' he might have horses for his own use, yet he was not to have many horses for his officers and guard, much less for war, lest he should trust in them. The multiplyin...