What does Deuteronomy 12:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possessa served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:"
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...
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 cho...
GREEN. Hebrew. _z'anan._ First occurrence....
First Statement of the Law of the One Altar In the Pl. address, with one later insertion, Deuteronomy 12:3, and possibly another Deuteronomy 12:5 _b_; the rest is a unity. It appropriately opens with...
_VER._ 2. _AND UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE_— The use of sacred groves for the celebration of mysteries is of very great antiquity, and, perhaps, of all others, the most universal. At first, there were in t...
LESSON NINE DEUTERONOMY 12:1-28 B. THE LAW (the Statutes and Ordinances) (Deuteronomy 12:1 to Deuteronomy 26:19) 1. ONE SANCTUARY (Deuteronomy 12:1-28) These are the statutes and the ordinances whic...
_YE SHALL UTTERLY DESTROY ALL THE PLACES, WHEREIN THE NATIONS WHICH YE SHALL POSSESS SERVED THEIR GODS, UPON THE HIGH MOUNTAINS, AND UPON THE HILLS, AND UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE:_ Ye shall utterly dest...
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 o...
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....
YE SHALL UTTERLY DESTROY. — First of all these requirements is the destruction of every vestige of idolatry. In the land of Jehovah there must be no trace of any other god but Him. The non-fulfilment...
אַבֵּ֣ד תְּ֠אַבְּדוּן אֶֽת ־כָּל ־הַ מְּקֹמֹ֞ות אֲשֶׁ֧ר עָֽבְדוּ ־שָׁ֣ם הַ גֹּויִ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתֶּ֛ם יֹרְשִׁ֥ים
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...
_Tree. See Genesis xxi. 33. All the monuments of idolatry must be destroyed. The very names of the idols must be abhorred and obliterated, (Exodus xxiii. 13,) to shew that they have lost possession of...
He that is at peace with GOD in CHRIST, is at war with all the enemies of GOD and CHRIST. Reader! if your body be really a temple of the HOLY GHOST, all idol worship is your abhorrence. See 2 Corinthi...
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...
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...
YE SHALL UTTERLY DESTROY ALL THE PLACES WHEREIN THE NATIONS WHICH YE SHALL POSSESS SERVED THEIR GODS,.... The temples erected for the worship of them by the Canaanites, of which there were many, as ap...
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: Ver. 2. _Ye shall utter...
_Ye shall destroy all the places_ Temples, chapels, altars, groves, as appears from other scriptures. _Green tree_ As the Gentiles consecrated divers trees to their false gods, so they worshipped thes...
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...
CONCERNING THE PLACE OF WORSHIP AND SACRIFICES...
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 place...
POSSESS: Or, inherit...
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...
ALL THE PLACES; temples, chapels, altars, groves, as appears from other scriptures. The Gentiles used to employ the HIGH MOUNTAINS for their idolatry; _\see ISAIAH 57:5,7 EZE 6:13 HOSEA 4:13\_ and as...
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 12:2 utterly H6 (H8763) destroy H6 (H8762) places H4725 nations H1471 which H834 dispossess H3423 (H8802) served H5647 (H8804) gods H430 high H7311 (H8802) mountains H2022 hills H1389 gree...
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...
_If there arise among you a prophet._ ON THE CRITERION OF A FALSE MIRACLE I. The evidence drawn from miracles, in favour of any Divine revelation, rests in general on the testimony of those who saw...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 12:1 Moses’ Second Speech: Specific Covenant Stipulations. In this second part of Moses’ second speech, he discusses in more detail the things he discussed in the first...
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...
2 Kings 16:4; 2 Kings 17:10; 2 Kings 17:11; 2 Kings 23:13; Deuteronomy 7:25; Deuteronomy 7:26; Deuteronomy 7:5; Exodus 23:24; Exodus 34:12;...
All the places — Temples, chapels, altars, groves, as appears from other scriptures. Green — tree — As the Gentiles consecrated divers trees to their false gods, so they worshipped these under them....