{"id":5376,"date":"2022-09-24T01:07:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-deuteronomy-173\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T01:07:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:07:03","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-deuteronomy-173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-deuteronomy-173\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 17:3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And hath gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 3<\/strong>. <em> gone and served other gods<\/em> ] So <span class='bible'>Deu 13:6<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Deu 13:13<\/span> (7, 14); and 2 (3) with slight variation.<\/p>\n<p><em> sun, moon<\/em>, etc.] See on <span class='bible'>Deu 4:19<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em> which I have not commanded<\/em> ] Cp. <span class='bible'>Deu 4:19<\/span>: <em> which thy God hath assigned unto the peoples<\/em>. The use of the first person here is remarkable; God Himself takes up the speech, as in <span class='bible'>Deu 7:4<\/span> and frequently in the prophets: e.g. <span class='bible'>Jer 7:31<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 19:5<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 32:35<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> Those glorious creatures, which are to be admired as the wonderful works of God, but not to be set up in Gods stead, nor worshipped as gods: see <span class='bible'>Job 31:26<\/span>. By condemning the most specious and reasonable of all idolaters, he intimates how absurd a thing it is to worship stocks and stones, the works of mens hands. <\/P> <P><B>Which I have not commanded, <\/B>i.e. I have forbidden, to wit, <span class='bible'>Exo 20<\/span>. Such negative expressions are oft emphatical, and imply the contrary, as <span class='bible'>Pro 10:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>17:21<\/span>; <span class='bible'>24:23<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And hath gone<\/strong>,&#8230;. The Targum of Jonathan adds, after the evil imagination or concupiscence, lusting after other lovers, and forsaking the true God, and departing from his worship:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and served other gods<\/strong>; strange gods, the idols of the people, other gods besides the true God; the creature besides the Creator:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and worshipped them<\/strong>; by bowing down before them, praying to them, or ascribing their mercies and blessings to them, and giving them the glory of them:<\/p>\n<p><strong>either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven<\/strong>: the two great luminaries, and the planets, constellations, and stars, any of them; which kind of idolatry very early obtained, and was in use at this time among the Heathens, and was an iniquity to be punished by the judge, <span class='bible'>Job 31:26<\/span>, which sin, though so strictly forbidden, the people of Israel sometimes fell into, <span class='bible'>2Ki 21:3<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>which I have not commanded<\/strong>: and which is a sufficient reason, in matters of worship, to avoid and abstain from anything, that God has not commanded it; for in things of that nature nothing should be done but what he has ordered, who is a jealous God, and will not suffer any to take upon them to direct what should be done as a religious service and duty; and if any are so presumptuous, they must expect it will be resented; see <span class='bible'>Isa 1:12<\/span> and especially with respect to the object of worship, as here, and which relate to things if not forbid expressly, yet tacitly, to do which was an abomination to the Lord.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>not commanded. Equally authoritative in matters of faith and worship to-day. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>the sun: Deu 4:19, 2Ki 21:3, Job 31:26, Job 31:27, Jer 8:2, Eze 8:16 <\/p>\n<p>which: Jer 7:22, Jer 7:23, Jer 7:31, Jer 19:5, Jer 32:35 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Gen 2:1 &#8211; host Lev 10:1 &#8211; which Num 25:5 &#8211; Slay ye Deu 13:6 &#8211; thy brother Jos 10:12 &#8211; Sun 1Ki 11:7 &#8211; abomination 2Ch 33:3 &#8211; the host Act 7:42 &#8211; the host<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Deu 17:3. The host of heaven  Those glorious creatures, which are to be admired as the wonderful works of God, but not to be set up in Gods stead. By condemning the most specious of all idolatries, he intimates how absurd a thing it is to worship stocks and stones, the works of mens hands. I have not commanded  That is, I have forbidden. Such negative expressions are emphatical.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not {c} commanded;<\/p>\n<p>(c) By which he condemns all religion and serving of God which God has not commanded.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And hath gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 3. gone and served other gods ] So Deu 13:6; Deu 13:13 (7, 14); and 2 (3) with slight variation. sun, moon, etc.] See on Deu 4:19. which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-deuteronomy-173\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 17:3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}