Deuteronomy 32:17

_THEY SACRIFICED UNTO DEVILS, NOT TO GOD; TO GODS WHOM THEY KNEW NOT, TO NEW GODS THAT CAME NEWLY UP, WHOM YOUR FATHERS FEARED NOT._ They sacrificed unto devils, х_ LASHEEDIYM_ (H7700), lords, = _ Bª`AALIYM_ (H1168) (Gesenius); Septuagint, daimoniois]. The Hebrews regarded idols as lords who constrained men to worship them (cf. Psalms 106:37 with 1 Corinthians 8:5; 1 Corinthians 10:20: see also the note at Leviticus 17:7, where "devils," in the King James Version, is the translation of a different

15-18 Here are two instances of the wickedness of Israel, each was apostacy from God. These people were called Jeshurun, "an upright people," so some; "a seeing people," so others: but they soon lost the reputation both of their knowledge and of their righteousness. They indulged their appetites, as if they had nothing to do but to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it. Those who make a god of themselves, and a god of their bellies, in pride and wantonness, and cannot bear to be told of it, thereby forsake God, and show they esteem him lightly. There is but one way of a sinner's acceptance and sanctification, however different modes of irreligion, or false religion, may show that favourable regard for other ways, which is often miscalled candid. How mad are idolaters, who forsake the Rock of salvation, to run themselves upon the rock of perdition!...

Verse Deuteronomy 32:17. _THEY SACRIFICED UNTO DEVILS_] The original word שדים _shedim_ has been variously understood. The Syriac, Chaldee, Targums of Jerusalem and Jonathan, and the Samaritan, retain the original word: the _Vulgate, Septuagint, Arabic, Persic, Coptic_, and _Anglo-Saxon_, have devils or demons. The _Septuagint_ has εθυσαν δαιμονιοις, _they sacrificed to demons_: the _Vulgate_ copies the Septuagint: the Arabic has [Arabic] _sheeateen_, the plural of [Arabic] _Sheetan_, Satan, by which the rebellious angels appear to be intended, as the word comes from the root [Arabic] _shatana_, he was _obstinate, proud, refractory, went far away_. And it is likely that these fallen spirits, having utterly lost the empire at which they aimed, got themselves worshipped under various forms and names in different places. The A...

SONG OF MOSES If Deuteronomy 32:1 be regarded as the introduction, and Deuteronomy 32:43 as the conclusion, the main contents of the song may be grouped under three heads, namely, (1) Deuteronomy 32:4, the faithfulness of God, the faithlessness of Israel; (2) Deuteronomy 32:19, the chastisement and the need of its infliction by God; (3) Deuteronomy 32:34, God’

EXPOSITION SONG OF MOSES AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DEATH. In accordance with the Divine injunction, Moses composed an ode, which he recited in the hearing of the people, and committed to writing, to remain with them as a witness for God against them. With this end in view, the ode is directed principally to a contrasting of the unchanging faithfulness of the Almighty with the anticipated perversity and unfaithfulness of his people. The poem may be divided into six parts. 1. An introduction (Deuteronomy 32:1), in which the importance of the doctrine to be delivered is announced. 2. The blamelessness and excellency of Jehovah are placed in contrast with the corruptness and perversity of

THEY SACRIFICED TO DEVILS, NOT TO GOD,.... Their sacrifices being continued, when it was the will of God they should cease, were reckoned by him not as, offered to him, but to demons, and to such that were not God; they being therein under the instigation of Satan, and doing his lusts, John 8:44; just as Pagans and Papists, worshipping idols under the influence and direction of Satan, are said to worship devils, and sacrifice to them, 1 Corinthians 10:20; and indeed setting up their own righteousness was sacrificing to their own net, and burning incense to their own drag, to an idol, and not to God: to which may be added, that whereas they trampled under foot the Son of God, and did despite to the Spirit of grace, by which Christ cast out devils, and offered himself without spot, they excluded two of

2. THE SONG OF MOSES CHAPTER 32:1-43 _ 1. The introduction and the theme (Deuteronomy 32:1)_ 2. The foolish people (Deuteronomy 32:5) 3. How Jehovah loved them (Deuteronomy 32:7) 4. Their apostasy (Deuteronomy 32:15) 5. The results of the apostasy (Deuteronomy 32:19) 6. Jehovah's final dealing with Israel (Deuteronomy 32:34) 7. The glorious consummatio

Moses'song is a didactic poem, a theodicy in which Yahweh's ways are vindicated. In its sentiments and artistic form it is unsurpassed in the poetry of the OT. Its dominant theme is Yahweh's justice and lovingkindness to Israel notwithstanding the nation's sinfulness. It is impossible to fix the date of this poem with any confidence. But points of contact with Jer., Isaiah 40-55, Ezek., and the Wisdom literature suggest the closing years of the Exile (say 550 B.C.). Moses is certainly not the author, for to the latter the Exodus belongs to his distant past (Deuteronomy 32:7), and the Israelites are already in Canaan (Deuteronomy 32:13 f.). The words translated doctrine (Deuteronomy 32:2), abominations ...

DEVILS. demons. Hebrew. _shed._ First occurrence. Compare Psalms 106:37; 1 Corinthians 10:20. GOD. _'eloah._ See App-4. GODS. ' _elohim_. App-4. NEW. recent, lately. Hebrew. _karob,_ as in Judges 5:8. NEWLY. recently. FEARED. trembled at. Hebrew. _sa'ar_. Not _gur,_ reverence....

The Fulness and Apostasy of Israel 15  Jacob ate and was full, Fat waxed Jeshurun and kicked, Thou _wast_fat, thou _wast_plump, thou _wast_sleek! He forsook the God who had made him, And befooled the Rock of his succour. 16  With strangers they moved Him to jealousy, With abominations provoked Him, 17  They sacrificed to demons not God, Gods whom they never had known, New ones, lately come in, Your sires never trembled at them. 18  Of the Rock that thee bare thou wast mindless, And forgattest the God that had travailed with thee....