There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to (e) pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
(e) Signifying they were purged by this ceremony of passing between two fires.
Verse Deuteronomy 18:10. _TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE_] Probably in the way of consecration to Molech, or some other deity. It is not likely that their being _burnt to death_ is here intended. Leviticus...
TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE - i. e., to Moloch; compare the Leviticus 20:2 note. THAT USETH DIVINATION - Compare Numbers 23:23 note. OBSERVER OF TIMES ... ENCHANTER - Compare...
14. THE RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES, THE TRUE AND THE FALSE PROPHET CHAPTER 18 _ 1. The rights of the priests and Levites (Deuteronomy 18:1)_ 2. Forbidden things (Deuteronomy 18:9) kite h...
CONCERNING THE PROPHET. The Israelites are to consult Yahweh through His accredited messenger the prophet, and not through diviners who seek oracles by heathen methods. There is no parallel law in JE...
OR. Note the Figure of speech _Paradiastole._ App-6....
_There shall not be found with thee_ Deuteronomy 17:2. _that maketh his son … to pass through the fire_ See on Deuteronomy 12:31: the want of a conjunction following this clause (so also Sam. and LXX...
Of Prophets in contrast to Diviners, etc. In the promised land Israel must have nothing to do with the abominations of its peoples (Deuteronomy 18:9); with any one passing his children through the fi...
_VER._ 10. _OR THAT USETH DIVINATION_— The Hebrew is קסמים קסם _kesem kesamim, divining divinations;_ which may signify, either divination by lots, after the manner of the _sortes Praenestinae, sortes...
(4) PROPHETS (Deuteronomy 18:9-22) 9 When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found...
LESSON FOURTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:18-20; DEUTERONOMY 17:2 TO DEUTERONOMY 18:22 e. THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ...
_THERE SHALL NOT BE FOUND AMONG YOU ANY ONE THAT MAKETH HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE, OR THAT USETH DIVINATION, OR AN OBSERVER OF TIMES, OR AN ENCHANTER, OR A WITCH,_ That useth d...
THE PRIESTLY DUES. CHARACTER AND WORK OF THE TRUE PROPHET 1-8. The Priestly dues: see on Numbers 18....
PASS THROUGH THE FIRE] The context here seems to imply that this was a method of divining or obtaining an oracle from a god: cp. on Leviticus 18:21. USETH DIVINATION] a general term, but applied speci...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 18 V1 ‘The priests are *Levites. They and all the *tribe called Levi, will not have any share o...
(9-14) Certain forms of idolatry to be avoided, especially unlawful means of communication with the unseen world....
TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE. — See Leviticus 18:21. USETH DIVINATION — (Numbers 22:7), possibly by sacrifices. OBSERVER OF TIMES. — This is the Rabbinical explanation of the word. In Hebrew the idea of...
לֹֽא ־יִמָּצֵ֣א בְךָ֔ מַעֲבִ֥יר בְּנֹֽו ־וּ ב
SPEAKERS FOR GOD - III. THE PROPHET Deuteronomy 18:9. THE third of the Divine voices to this nation was the prophet. Just as in the other Semitic nations round about Israel there were kings and prie...
THE PROPHET WHO WAS TO COME Deuteronomy 18:1 Those that serve the altar may live by the altar. Let us not forget the needs of those who serve us in holy things. It is a blessed thing when an individu...
In dealing with the priest who was already found among the people by the appointment of God, the fact that he was to have no inheritance in the land was restated. Then a special provision was made for...
Fire. This impiety is not punished with death, (Leviticus xviii. 21,) as the burning of children was, Leviticus xx. 2. (Grotius) --- It was done in imitation of the latter, and became more common, as...
It is wonderful to observe, how much Moses was led to speak to the people against the idolatry of the neighboring nations around them. As if the LORD meant to convey by the frequency of his precepts o...
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...
10._There shall not be found among you. _This horrible and altogether monstrous infatuation, whereby the Gentiles had been possessed, afterwards invaded the Jews also, that they should immolate and ev...
The priests and the whole tribe of Levi have their portion assigned to them. The people are forbidden to do after those abominations, on account of which the nations which inhabited the land were driv...
THERE SHALL NOT BE FOUND AMONG YOU ANYONE THAT MAKETH HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE,.... To Moloch, which was a sort of lustration by fire, two fires being made, and the child led b...
There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Ver. 10....
_That maketh his son or daughter pass through the fire_ By a superstitious dedicating, or a cruel sacrificing of them, see on Leviticus 18:21. _That useth divination_ Of which there were many sorts, a...
1 The Lord is the Priests and Leuites inheritance. 3 The Priests due. 6 The Leuites portion. 9 The abominations of the Nations are to bee auoyded. 15 Christ the Prophet is to be heard. 20 The pre...
WARNING AGAINST HEATHEN ABOMINATIONS...
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, as the worshipers of Moloch, or Molech, did, OR THAT USETH DIVINATION, to uncover the future, N...
PRIESTS AND LEVITES: THEIR DUE (vs.1-8) The proper support of the priests and Levites is again insisted on. Since they were given no inheritance in the land, and were separated to care for the intere...
9-14 Was it possible that a people so blessed with Divine institutions, should ever be in any danger of making those their teachers whom God had made their captives? They were in danger; therefore, a...
TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE; either by a superstitious lustration or purgation, or by a cruel sacrificing of them. See Leviticus 18:21 2 Kings 17:31, 2 Kings 23:10...
The opening paragraph of this chapter suggests a deeply interesting and practical line of truth. "The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; th...
Deuteronomy 18:10 found H4672 (H8735) son H1121 daughter H1323 pass H5674 (H8688) fire H784 practices H7080
ASSOCIATION WITH THE OCCULT IS BANNED (DEUTERONOMY 18:9). The nations in the land into which they were about to enter practised all kinds of abominations, things that were hateful to Yahweh. These oc...
CONTENTS: Laws concerning Levites, idolatrous practices and prophets. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Christ. CONCLUSION: God has made Himself known to men through One above all prophets (Acts 3:22; Acts 7:3...
Deuteronomy 18:1. _They shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire._ The sin- offerings, except the skin and the fat, which were burnt on the altar. The ecclesiastics having relinquished the two...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 18:9 ABOMINABLE PRACTICES OF THOSE NATIONS. See note on 12:2–3. BURNS HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER AS AN OFFERING. See...
CRITICAL NOTES.—After speaking of the rulers of the people, Moses now mentions the teachers priests, Levites, and prophets; and what their privileges and position must be in their settlement in Canaan...
EXPOSITION RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES. THE ARTS OF DIVINATION OF THE HEATHEN TO BE AVOIDED. PROPHETS PROMISED WHOM...
Now again he repeats how the tribe of Levi is not to be given any portion of the land but they will eat the offerings that were given unto the Lord made by fire as their inheritance for the Lord is th...
1 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Samuel 28:3; 1 Samuel 28:7; 1 Samuel 28:9;...
Useth divination — Foretelleth things secret or to come, by unlawful arts and practices. An observer of times — Superstitiously pronouncing some days lucky, and others unlucky. Or, an observer of the...
How can the command for wholesale slaughter of innocent lives be justified? (See comments on Joshua 6:21) Deuteronomy 20:16-18 —Were the captives to be spared or killed? PROBLEM: In Deuteronomy 20:11;...