Is it not astonishing that a people so highly favored of GOD should need such precepts as these to keep them from idolatry? But alas! even in gospel days, and under a better dispensation, established upon better promises, what a tendency there is to set up the idol under one form or other, in the human heart.
Verse Deuteronomy 16:21. _THOU SHALT NOT PLANT THEE A GROVE, C._] We have already seen that _groves_ were planted about idol temples for the purpose of the obscene worship performed in them. (Deutero...
These verses are closely connected in subject with the following chapter, and introduce certain directions for the administration of justice and the carrying on of the civil government of the people i...
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 ...
DEUTERONOMY 16. THE DEUTERONOMIC LAWS OF THE THREE ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE FEASTS. These are adaptations of the older laws in Exodus 23:18 *, Exodus 34:18; Exodus 34:22 f. (general regulations);...
GROVE. Hebrew. _'asherah._ See App-42. Here in the feminine gender....
Deuteronomy 16:21 to Deuteronomy 17:7. Isolated Group of Laws on Worship This group of laws against heathen symbols and blemished sacrifices and the worship of other gods all of them abominations to,...
Deuteronomy 16:21-22. Against the Use of "Asherim and Maṣṣeboth 21. _Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah plant_, because the "Asherah (see general note following) was either a mast or artificial tre...
4. GENERAL RULES FOR OBSERVANCE (Deuteronomy 16:16-17; Deuteronomy 16:21-22; Deuteronomy 17:1) 16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which
LESSON FOURTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:18-20; DEUTERONOMY 17:2 TO DEUTERONOMY 18:22 e. THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ...
_THOU SHALT NOT PLANT THEE A GROVE OF ANY TREES NEAR UNTO THE ALTAR OF THE LORD THY GOD, WHICH THOU SHALT MAKE THEE._ Thou shalt not plant thee a grove. A grove has in Scripture a variety of signific...
16:21 Asherah (d-7) See Exodus 34:13 ....
INJUNCTIONS REGARDING FEASTS, JUDGES, GROVES, AND IMAGES 1-8. On the Passover see Exodus 12 Leviticus 23:4; Numbers 28:16, and the notes on these passages. It will be observed that the general law of...
GROVE OF ANY TREES] RV ' Asherah of any kind of tree': see on Exodus 34:13....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 16 V1 ‘You must *celebrate the *Passover to the *LORD your God in the month called Abib. On a n...
THOU SHALT NOT PLANT THEE A GROVE. — Heb., _ashêrah,_ sometimes used of images, but here evidently of the grove itself. The worship of Jehovah allowed of no secret rites; and nothing that could lead t...
לֹֽא ־תִטַּ֥ע לְךָ֛ אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה כָּל ־עֵ֑ץ אֵ֗צ
As the section dealing with the statutes commenced with the place of worship, it closed with the restatement of the importance of the great feasts which by their annual recurrence set the whole year i...
_Tree. The pagans had consecrated different sorts of trees to their idols. They always planted groves near their temples, to increase the reverential awe, and but too often to hide the abominations wh...
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...
21._Thou shalt not plant thee. _It is plain from the end of this verse that it is part of the Second Commandment. We know (300) that amongst the heathen nations groves were sacred, so that with them n...
Chapter 16 connects the people with the dwelling-place of Jehovah, by solemnities in which He surrounds Himself with His people, blessed and happy in the deliverance which He has granted them under Hi...
THOU SHALL NOT PLANT THEE A GROVE OF ANY TREES,.... Of any sort of trees, as oaks or any other; not but that it was lawful to plant trees and groves of them, but not for a religious or idolatrous use:...
_Thou shalt not plant thee a grove_ To plant groves in honour of the _true God_, was a part of primitive worship, as we see by the example of Abraham, Genesis 21:33. But the Gentiles having abused thi...
1 The feast of the Passeouer, 9 of Weekes, 13 of Tabernacles. 16 Euery male must offer, as he is able, at these three Feasts. 18 Of Iudges and Iustice. 22 Groues and Images are forbidden. 1 OBSER...
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove, erect a wooden pillar which was used in the worship of Asherah, a heathen goddess, OF ANY TREES NEAR UNTO THE ALTAR OF THE LORD, THY GOD, WHICH THOU SHALT MAKE THEE....
PRECEPTS OF RIGHT JUDGMENT...
INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE PASSOVER (vs.1-8) The Passover, held in the first month of the year, was to celebrate Israel's deliverance from Egypt (v.1), but more importantly, to look forward to the death...
18-22 Care is taken for the due administration of justice. All personal regards must be laid aside, so that right is done to all, and wrong to none. Care is taken to prevent following the idolatrous...
Because this was the practice of idolaters, 1 KINGS 15:13, and might be an occasion of reviving idolatry. See Judges 3:7 1 Kings 14:23 1 Kings 16:33
We now approach one of the most profound and comprehensive sections of the Book of Deuteronomy, in which the inspired writer presents to our view what we may call the three great cardinal feasts of th...
Deuteronomy 16:21 plant H5193 (H8799) tree H6086 image H842 near H681 altar H4196 build H6213 (H8799) LORD...
A BAN ON ALL RELIGIOUS OBJECTS AND BEHAVIOUR WHICH WOULD DISHONOUR YAHWEH AND MAKE THEM UNFIT AS JUDGES (DEUTERONOMY 16:21 TO DEUTERONOMY 17:1). It is quite possible that certain matters of justice am...
GROVE The groves (Hebrew, "Asherim") so often mentioned in the Old Testament were devoted to the worship of Ashtereth, the Babylonian goddess, "Ishtar", the "Aphrodite" of the Greeks, the Roman, "Ven...
CONTENTS: Laws concerning annual feasts. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: By frequent and regular meeting to worship God at appointed places and by recognized rules, we are kept faithful and cons...
Deuteronomy 16:3. _Bread of affliction,_ unleavened bread; for while the Egyptians afflicted them, they had not time to prepare their food in a proper manner. Deuteronomy 16:10. _The feast of weeks;_...
_Thou shalt not plant thee a grove._ IDOLATRY FORBIDDEN I. Idolatry is enticing. This on many accounts. 1. By its prevalence. In some form or other it is the most popular religion in the world. Men...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 16:18 Most of these laws are about the various leaders for Israel. Leaders, like parents, exercise God’s authority toward those under them. This section recalls the fif...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 16:21 TREE AS AN ASHERAH... PILLAR. See note on 7:5. Canaanite worship items were to be destroyed ...
CRITICAL NOTES.—The religious ordinances to be observed in Canaan are continued. Three great festivals are prominently mentioned—Feast of Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. Former regulations concer...
EXPOSITION CELEBRATION OF THE PASSOVER FESTIVAL, THE FEAST OF PENTECOST AND OF TABERNACLES. APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF J
In chapter sixteen we now deal with the various feasts that they were to observe when they came into the land. We have rehearsed these as we went through earlier in the book of Exodus and all. You're...
1 Kings 14:15; 1 Kings 16:33; 2 Chronicles 33:3; 2 Kings 17:16;...
Thou shalt not plant — Because this was the practice of idolaters, and might be an occasion of reviving idolatry....