Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Deuteronomy 13:1
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of (a) dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
(a) Who says that he has things revealed to him in dreams.
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of (a) dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
(a) Who says that he has things revealed to him in dreams.
CHAPTER XIII _Of false prophets and their lying signs_, 1-6. _Of those who endeavour to entice and seduce people to idolatry_, 7-8. _The punishment of such_, 9-11. _Of cities perverted from the p...
A PROPHET, OR A DREAMER OF DREAMS - Compare Numbers 12:6. The “prophet” received his revelations by vision or direct oral communication Numbers 24:16; 2 Samuel 7:4;...
9. WARNINGS AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS AND THEIR PUNISHMENT CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The first case: The false prophet and dreamer (Deuteronomy 13:1)_ 2. The second case: Temptation to idolatry from blood-relat...
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...
IF, &C. Beginning of Moses' fourth address. See note on Deuteronomy 1:1....
1 5 (2 6 in Heb.). Against the Prophet of Other Gods 1. _If there arise in the midst of thee_ So Deuteronomy 19:15-16 also Sg. Cp. the synonymous _if there be found in the midst of thee_Deuteronomy 17...
DISCOURSE: 206 THE JEWS’ LEADING OBJECTION TO CHRISTIANITY CONSIDERED Deuteronomy 13:1. If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or...
_VER._ 1-4. _IF THERE ARISE AMONG YOU A PROPHET,_ &C.— The divinity of their religion, and its peculiar opposition to idolatry, having been fully shewn, Moses now proceeds to put the strongest case po...
LESSON TEN DEUTERONOMY 12:29 TO DEUTERONOMY 13:18; DEUTERONOMY 17:2-13 2. ONE GOD: DEATH PENALTIES FOR APOSTASY ...
_IF THERE ARISE AMONG YOU A PROPHET, OR A DREAMER OF DREAMS, AND GIVETH THEE A SIGN OR A WONDER,_ If there arise among you a prophet. The special counsels which follow arose out of the general precep...
WARNINGS AGAINST TEMPTATIONS TO IDOLATRY The people are warned against three possible sources of temptation to idolatry, viz. the false prophet (Deuteronomy 13:1), an erring member of the family (Deut...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 13 V1 ‘A *prophet or someone who explains the meaning of dreams might promise to you a *sign or...
XIII. (1) IF THERE ARISE. — Three cases of instigation to idolatry are considered in this chapter: — 1. The false prophet (Deuteronomy 13:1). 2. A private individual (Deuteronomy 13:6). 3. A city ...
_[Deuteronomy 13:2]_ כִּֽי ־יָק֤וּם בְּ קִרְבְּךָ֙ נָבִ֔יא
LAWS AGAINST IDOLATROUS ACTS AND CUSTOMS Deuteronomy 13:1; Deuteronomy 14:1 HAVING thus set forth the law which was to crown and complete the long resistance of faithful Israel to idolatry, our autho...
CUT OUT THE PLAGUE SPOT Deuteronomy 13:1 How to exterminate sources of disease is a main question with the modern world; but the stamping-out of possible sources of temptation must not less energetic...
The discourse commenced in chapter twelve continues with carefully expressed warnings against idolatry, and it is very arresting to note how the ways by which they might be seduced from the pure worsh...
If....a prophet, or even an angel from heaven, as St. Paul (Galatians i. 8,) says on a similar occasion, (Calmet) should work a miracle, and afterwards adduce it in proof of a false religion, believe...
CONTENTS This Chapter is a continuation of the same subject as the former. Particular and special precepts are contained in it to arm against the motives to idolatry; the persons tempting to it are t...
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...
After having restrained the Israelites from the strange delusions of the Gentiles, Moses now forbids them from being too credulous if false teachers should arise from among themselves, and warns them...
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...
IF THERE ARISE AMONG YOU A PROPHET,.... A false prophet, a lying prophet, as the Targum of Jonathan; one that pretends to be a true prophet, and to be sent of God, and to come from him with a message...
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, Ver. 1. _If there arise among you a prophet._] A public deceiver, that shall boldly obtrude upon you hi...
Moses, foreseeing how liable the Israelites, in after ages, would be to be deluded by false prophets, who, under pretence of divine revelations, or communications of divine power, while indeed they we...
1 Inticers to idolatrie, 6 how neere soeuer vnto thee, 9 are to be stoned to death. 12 Idolatrous cities are not to be spared. 1 IF there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreames, and gi...
OF FALSE PROPHETS IN GENERAL...
If there arise among you, in your midst, A PROPHET, one pretending to be sent by the Lord, OR A DREAMER OF DREAMS, (the latter were mediums through which the Lord had promised to make known His will,...
JUDGMENT OF FALSE PROPHETS (vs.1-11) Just as Paul warned the Ephesian elders that "savage wolves" would enter in among New Testament believers, and men from among themselves would teach perverted thi...
1-5 Moses had cautioned against the peril that might arise from the Canaanites. Here he cautions against the rise of idolatry among themselves. It is needful for us to be well acquainted with the tru...
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 13 Enticers to idolatry, being permitted by God to try Israel, were to be stoned to death., DEUTERONOMY 13:1, though near of kin, DEUTERONOMY 13:6. A city found guilty of idolatry...
This chapter abounds in most weighty principles. It consists of three distinct sections, each one of which claims our deep attention. We must not attempt to weaken the admonitory force of such a scrip...
Deuteronomy 13:1 arises H6965 (H8799) among H7130 prophet H5030 dreamer H2492 (H8802) dreams H2472 gives H5414
CHAPTER 13 WARNINGS AGAINST IDOLATRY AND GUIDANCE ON HOW TO DEAL WITH THOSE WHO LEAD MEN ASTRAY. This chapter continues the closing theme in Deuteronomy 12 where emphasis has been laid on observing th...
Deuteronomy 13:1 I. If the text teaches us how the true Jewish prophet would speak to his people, and in what spirit they would hear him, it teaches us who read him how we are to receive his words. Th...
CONTENTS: The test of false prophets. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: «Though we or an angel from heaven preach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be ac...
Deuteronomy 13:6. _If the son of thy mother entice thee._ Brother and brethren being often vague words, in this case of spiritual wickedness, the culprit must be identified. Seduction to idolatry was...
_Ye are the children of the Lord your God._ ISRAEL’S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD Moses here tells Israel-- I. How God had dignified them, as a peculiar people, with three distinguishable privileges, which...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 13:1 Much of OT law is “case law,” which explains the correct legal response to specific situations. Here, each situation is introduced with IF (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.—The true modes and forms of worship have been laid down, the next step is to legislate against the authors and abettors of false ones. Such tempters are not to be spared, even though ...
EXPOSITION IDOLATERS AND ENTICERS TO IDOLATRY TO BE PUT TO DEATH. DEUTERONOMY 13:1 The case supposed here is that of one professing to have supernatural intelligence, who should, by
Now in chapter thirteen, the warning against false prophets. If a man comes in and does some kind of a sign or a wonder and he's a dreamer of dreams or a prophet and he gives some kind of a sign and i...
1 John 4:1; 1 Kings 13:18; 2 Peter 2:1; Ezekiel 13:2; Ezekiel 13:23;...
A dreamer of dreams — One that pretends God hath revealed himself to him by visions or dreams. Giveth a sign or wonder — That is, shall foretell some strange and wonderful thing....