Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Deuteronomy 12:32
What thing soever I command you. — No later writer could put these words into the mouth of Moses, if he had altered the precepts of Moses to any appreciable extent.
What thing soever I command you. — No later writer could put these words into the mouth of Moses, if he had altered the precepts of Moses to any appreciable extent.
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
DEUTERONOMY 12:29 TO DEUTERONOMY 13:1. Yahwism must be kept free from all taint of Canaanite heathenism when Israel has entered Canaan. The danger would arise from the ancient belief that everyone sho...
WHAT, &C. Close of third address. See note on Deuteronomy 1:1....
(Deuteronomy 13:1 in Heb.) is remarkable here; and would seem more in place at the beginning of the section before 29. The text is not certain; LXX A harmonises to Sg. throughout, but other versions c...
_VER._ 32. _THOU SHALT NOT ADD THERETO, NOR DIMINISH FROM IT_— See on chap. Deuteronomy 4:2. One would wonder, says Bishop Patrick, that so learned a man as Maimonides should have laboured to prove fr...
LESSON TEN DEUTERONOMY 12:29 TO DEUTERONOMY 13:18; DEUTERONOMY 17:2-13 2. ONE GOD: DEATH PENALTIES FOR APOSTASY ...
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...
_[Deuteronomy 13:1]_ אֵ֣ת כָּל ־הַ דָּבָ֗ר אֲשֶׁ֤ר...
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...
CHAPTER XII. That only do thou, &c. They are forbid here to follow the ceremonies of the heathens, or to make any alterations in the divine ordinances. (Challoner) --- To adopt fresh regulations, in...
I take occasion from this precept to remark, how needful it must be for the heart to be established in grace, that we may not be carried about with diverse and strange doctrines. Alas! if our religion...
REFLECTIONS HOLY and Eternal SPIRIT! be graciously pleased of thine infinite mercy so to write thy statutes and judgments upon my mind and in my heart, that I may live to JESUS in the enjoyment of the...
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...
32._What thing soever I command. _In this brief clause he teaches that no other service of God is lawful, except that of which He has testified His approval in His word, and that obedience is as it we...
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...
WHAT THING SOEVER I COMMAND YOU, OBSERVE TO DO IT,.... In the manner it is commanded and directed to; the laws of God, both as to matter and manner, were to be obeyed just as they were delivered: thou...
What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. Ver. 32. _Thou shalt not add thereto._] To add anything to the Word of God, saith Theodoret, is bo...
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...
What thing soever I command you, observe to do it; thou shalt not add thereto nor diminish from it, Joshua 1:7. The Revelation of Scripture is sufficient for all purposes and teaches the way of salvat...
CONCERNING THE CARE OF THE LEVITES, THE EATING OF SACRIFICIAL MEAT, AND IDOLATRY...
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...
5-32 The command to bring ALL the sacrifices to the door of the tabernacle, was now explained with reference to the promised land. As to moral service, then, as now, men might pray and worship every...
No text from Poole on this verse....
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 12:32 Whatever H1697 command H6680 (H8764) careful H8104 (H8799) observe H6213 (H8800) add H3254
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 12:32 NOT ADD TO IT OR TAKE FROM IT. See note on 4:2. ⇐...
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 13:18; Deuteronomy 4:2; Joshua 1:7; Matthew 28:20;...