Deuteronomy 17:1

_THOU SHALT NOT SACRIFICE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD ANY BULLOCK, OR SHEEP, WHEREIN IS BLEMISH, OR ANY_ _ THOU SHALT NOT SACRIFICE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD ANY BULLOCK, OR SHEEP, WHEREIN IS BLEMISH, OR ANY EVILFAVOUREDNESS: FOR THAT IS AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD THY GOD._ Any bullock or sheep wherein is blemish. Under the name of bullock were comprehended bulls, cows, and calves; under that of sheep, rams, lambs, kids, he and she goats. An ox, from mutilation, was inadmissible for an offering on the altar. The qualities required in animals destined for sacrifice are described, Exodus 12:5; Leviticus 1:3....

1-7 No creature which had any blemish was to be offered in sacrifice to God. We are thus called to remember the perfect, pure, and spotless sacrifice of Christ, and reminded to serve God with the best of our abilities, time, and possession, or our pretended obedience will be hateful to him. So great a punishment as death, so remarkable a death as stoning, must be inflicted on the Jewish idolater. Let all who in our day set up idols in their hearts, remember how God punished this crime in Israel....

CHAPTER XVII _All sacrifices to be without blemish_, 1. _Of persons consisted of idolatry and their punishment_, 2-7. _Difficult matters in judgment to be laid before the priests and_ _judges, and to be determined by them; and all to submit to their_ _decision_, 8-13. _The_ king _that may be chosen to be one of their brethren; no_ stranger _to be appointed to that office_, 14, 15. _He shall not multiply_ horses _to himself, nor_ cause _the people to_ _return unto Egypt_, 16. _Nor multiply_ wives, money, c.

This verse belongs in subject to the last chapter. It prohibits once more (compare Deuteronomy 15:21) that form of insult to God which consists in offering to Him a blemished sacrifice. ANY EVIL-FAVOREDNESS - Render any evil thing. The reference is to the faults or maims enumerated in Leviticus 22:22....

EXPOSITION SACRIFICES TO BE OF ANIMALS UNBLEMISHED. IDOLATERS TO BE SOUGHT OUT, CONVICTED, AND PUT TO DEATH. THE HIGHER JUDICIAL COURT AT THE SANCTUARY. ELECTION DUTY OF A KING. DEUTERONOMY 17:1 Not only was the setting up of idols an offence to be punished by the judge, but also all profanation of the service of Jehovah, such as the offering in sacrifice of any animal, bullock or sheep, tha

THOU SHALT NOT SACRIFICE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD ANY BULLOCK OR SHEEP WHEREIN IS BLEMISH,.... No sacrifice of any sort, whether burnt offering, sin offering, or peace offering, was to have any blemish in it; typical of the unblemished and immaculate Lamb of God, who, being without sin, offered himself without spot to God, and so could take away the sins of others by the sacrifice of himself; see Leviticus 22:18, [OR] ANY EVILFAVOUREDNESS; any sickness or disease upon it of any sort, which made it ill favoured to the sight, or disagreeable to the smell, or however unacceptable for sacrifice: FOR THAT IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD THY GOD; every such blemished and ill favoured sacrifice; see Malachi 1:8....

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 17:8) 3. The choice and right of the king (Deuteronomy 17:14) This chapter leads us upon new ground. The obligations of the religious life of Israel were stated in the first part of chapter 16 and now the government of the people in the land is commanded. “Just as in its religious worship the Israelitish nation was to show itself to be the holy nation of Jehovah,

DEUTERONOMY 16:21- DEUTERONOMY 17:7. LAWS DEMANDING PURE WORSHIP AND SUITABLE SACRIFICES. This breaks the connexion; its proper place is probably between Deuteronomy 12 and Deuteronomy 13. DEUTERONOMY 17:1. See Leviticus 22:17 *. ox: Heb. means any head of large cattle, bull, cow, calf. sheep: Heb. means any head of small cattle, ram, ewe, lamb, goat, kid. Deuteronomy 17:2 probably preceded ch. 13 with which it has close affinities....

THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....

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, or hated by, Jehovah is quite isolated, between two sets of laws on judicial procedure, Deuteronomy 16:18-20 and Deuteronomy 17:8 ff.; and we have seen reasons (above p. 173) for supposing that the whole group originally stood between Deuteronomy 12:29-31 and...