Bible Commentary

And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: Some have objected that this command cannot possibly have been ever carried out, at all events until in … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 12:6”

But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, [even] unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: To put his name there means to manifest to men His divine presence. The Targumists rightly refer to the Shechinah; but the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 12:5”

Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. i. e., The idolaters set up their altars and images on any high hill, and under every green tree at their pleasure, but ye shall not do so; the Lord Himself shall determine the spot for your worship, and there only shall ye seek Him. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 12:4”

And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. Their groves – Render their idols of wood: and see the Deu 7:5 note. Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 12:3”

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: 2 7. First Statement of the Law of the One Altar In the Pl. address, with one later insertion, Deu 12:3, and possibly another Deu … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 12:2”

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. 1. These are the statutes and the judgements ] As in Deu 6:1 but minus the Commandment or Charge … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 12:1”

And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day. Deu 11:32 Observe to do. Obedience to the Divine commands I. It is a breach of the injunction in the text for any man to substitute any contrivance or invention of his own, in the room of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 11:32”

For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. 31 32. Resumption of the Pl. form of address; either an editorial addition to mark the transition to the actual laws which begin with Deu 12:1, or … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 11:31”

[Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? Over against Gilgal; looking towards Gilgal, though at some considerable distance from it, as this particle is sometimes used. Fuente: … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 11:30”

And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 29 30. A return to the Sg. form of address, with phrases peculiar to that form … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 11:29”