Deuteronomy 12:1

_THESE ARE THE STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS, WHICH YE SHALL OBSERVE TO DO IN THE LAND, WHICH THE LORD GOD OF THY FATHERS GIVETH THEE TO POSSESS IT, ALL THE DAYS THAT YE LIVE UPON THE EARTH._ Deuteronomy 12:1 . MONUMENTS OF IDOLATRY TO BE DESTROYED. These are the statutes and judgments ... Having in the preceding chapter inculcated upon the Israelites the general obligation to fear and love God, Moses here enters into a detail of some special duties they were to practice on their obtaining possession of the promised land....

1-4 Moses comes to the statutes he had to give in charge to Israel; and begins with such as relate to the worship of God. The Israelites are charged not to bring the rites and usages of idolaters into the worship of God; not under colour of making it better. We cannot serve God and mammon; nor worship the true God and idols; nor depend upon Christ Jesus and upon superstitious or self-righteous confidences....

CHAPTER XII _All monuments of idolatry in the promised land to be destroyed_, 1-3; _and God's service to be duly performed_, 4-7. _The difference between the performance of that service in the_ _wilderness and in the promised land_, 8-11. _The people are to be happy in all their religious observances_, 12. _The offerings must be brought to the place which God appoints_, _and no blood is to be eaten_, 13-16. _The_ tithe _of corn, wine, oil, c., to be eaten in the place that_ God shall choos

Moses now passes on to apply Deut. 12–26 the leading principles of the Decalogue to the ecclesiastical, civil, and social life of the people. Particulars will be noticed which are unique to the Law as given in Deuteronomy; and even in laws repeated from the earlier books various new circumstances and details are introduced. This is only natural. The Sinaitic legislation was nearly 40 years old and had been given under conditions of time, place, and circumstance different and distant from those now present. Yet the Sinaitic system, far from being set aside or in any way abrogated, is on the contrary throughout presupposed and assumed. Its existence and authority are taken as the starting-point for what is here prescribed, and an accurate acquaintance with it on the part of the people is taken for granted....

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 recapitulated what had happened at Sinai, repeated the Decalogue, and urgently counseled the people to be obedient to the Divine commandment, and steadfast in their adherence to Jehovah as their God and King; proceeds now to set forth certain laws which it specially behooved them to observe. These are for the most part the same as those already recorded in the previous books; but a few are new, and are to be found only here. No special order or plan of exposition is here observed; the speaker uses that freedom of discourse which was fitting in a popular address. One or two historical narratives are interpolated; but the address as a whole is hortatory, and is designed to dir

THESE ARE THE STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS WHICH YE SHALL OBSERVE TO DO,.... Which are recorded in this and the following Chapter s; here a new discourse begins, and which perhaps was delivered at another time, and respects things that were to be observed: IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD GOD OF THY FATHERS GIVETH THEE TO POSSESS IT; the land of Canaan, often described by this circumlocution, to put them in mind that it was promised to their fathers by their covenant God, was his gift to them, and which they would quickly be in the possession of; and therefore when in it should be careful to observe the statutes and judgments of God constantly: [EVEN] ALL THE DAYS THAT YE LIVE UPON THE EARTH; or land, the land of Canaan; for though there were some laws binding upon them, live where they would, there were others peculiar to the land of Canaan, which they were to observe as long as they and their po...

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 (Deuteronomy 12:15) 4. Warning against the abominations of idolatry (Deuteronomy 12:29) The law, and love as the fulfilment of that law, was the main subject of the words of Moses up to the close of the eleventh chapter. The Chapter s which follow also contain expositions of the different statutes, as well as exhortations to obedience and warnings against departure from Jehovah. How s

THE LAW OF ONE SANCTUARY. The local sanctuaries (originally Canaanite) with everything belonging to them, are to be destroyed, and all sacrifices are to be offered at the place which Yahweh should choose. Yet (Deuteronomy 12:15 f.) animals intended for food alone may be killed and eaten locally. Though the name Jerusalem does not occur in D, it is fairly evident that no other place can be intended by the place which Yahweh. shall choose, etc., though A. Duff holds that the Deut. code originated in the Northern Kingdom before its fall, and that it aimed at making Shechem the one worship centre for both kingdoms (see his _OT Theology_, ii. 24ff.). Jer. and Dt. have so much in common (see Introd.) that one may be used to interpret the other. In Jeremiah 7:4;...

STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS. See note on Deuteronomy 4:1. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. EARTH. ground. Hebrew. _'adamah._...

_These are the statutes and the judgements_ As in Deuteronomy 6:1 but _minus_the Commandment or Charge (Miṣwah) because this, the introductory enforcement of the religious principles on which the laws are based, is now finished. _observe to do_ See on Deuteronomy 4:6; Deuteronomy 5:1. _God of thy fathers_ See on Deuteronomy 6:3. _all the days_, etc.] Cp. Deuteronomy 4:9-10; Deuteronomy 31:13....