_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._ Deuteronomy 12:1 . MONUMENTS OF IDOLATRY TO BE DESTROYED. These are the statutes and judgments ... Having in the... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 destroy all the places wherein the nations ... served their gods. This divine command was founded on the... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Overthrow their altars - piles of turf or small stones. BREAK THEIR PILLARS. Before the art of s... [ Continue Reading ]
_YE SHALL NOT DO SO UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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:_ Unto the place which the Lord ... shall choose out of ... They were forbidden to worship either in the impure superstitious ma... [ Continue Reading ]
_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:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE YE SHALL EAT BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND YE SHALL REJOICE IN ALL THAT YE PUT YOUR HAND UNTO, YE AND YOUR HOUSEHOLDS, WHEREIN THE LORD THY GOD HATH BLESSED THEE._ There ye shall eat - of the things mentioned (Deuteronomy 12:6), but of course none of the parts assigned to the priests.... [ Continue Reading ]
_YE SHALL NOT DO AFTER ALL THE THINGS THAT WE DO HERE THIS DAY, EVERY MAN WHATSOEVER IS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES._ Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day. Many of the injunctions of the law respecting sacrifices and other ritual observances were allowed to lie in abeyance, or we... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT WHEN YE GO OVER JORDAN, AND DWELL IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVETH YOU TO INHERIT, AND WHEN HE GIVETH YOU REST FROM ALL YOUR ENEMIES ROUND ABOUT, SO THAT YE DWELL IN SAFETY;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YE SHALL REJOICE BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD, YE, AND YOUR SONS, AND YOUR DAUGHTERS, AND YOUR MENSERVANTS, AND YOUR MAIDSERVANTS, AND THE LEVITE THAT IS WITHIN YOUR GATES; FORASMUCH AS HE HATH NO PART NOR INHERITANCE WITH YOU._ Ye shall rejoice ... ye, and your sons, and your daughters ... Hence,... [ Continue Reading ]
_TAKE HEED TO THYSELF THAT THOU OFFER NOT THY BURNT OFFERINGS IN EVERY PLACE THAT THOU SEEST:_ _ TAKE HEED TO THYSELF THAT THOU OFFER NOT THY BURNT OFFERINGS IN EVERY PLACE THAT THOU SEEST:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOTWITHSTANDING THOU MAYEST KILL AND EAT FLESH IN ALL THY GATES, WHATSOEVER THY SOUL LUSTETH AFTER, ACCORDING TO THE BLESSING OF THE LORD THY GOD WHICH HE HATH GIVEN THEE: THE UNCLEAN AND THE CLEAN MAY EAT THEREOF, AS OF THE ROEBUCK, AND AS OF THE HART._ Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat fl... [ Continue Reading ]
_ONLY YE SHALL NOT EAT THE BLOOD; YE SHALL POUR IT UPON THE EARTH AS WATER._ Ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. The prohibition against eating or drinking blood, as an unnatural custom, accompanied the announcement of the divine grant of animal flesh for food (Gen... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU MAYEST NOT EAT WITHIN THY GATES THE TITHE OF THY CORN, OR OF THY WINE, OR OF THY OIL, OR THE FIRSTLINGS OF THY HERDS OR OF THY FLOCK, NOR ANY OF THY VOWS WHICH THOU VOWEST, NOR THY FREEWILL OFFERINGS, OR HEAVE OFFERING OF THINE HAND:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THOU MUST EAT THEM BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD IN THE PLACE WHICH THE LORD THY GOD SHALL CHOOSE, THOU, AND THY SON, AND THY DAUGHTER, AND THY MANSERVANT, AND THY MAIDSERVANT, AND THE LEVITE THAT IS WITHIN THY GATES: AND THOU SHALT REJOICE BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD IN ALL THAT THOU PUTTEST THINE HANDS... [ Continue Reading ]
_TAKE HEED TO THYSELF THAT THOU FORSAKE NOT THE LEVITE AS LONG AS THOU LIVEST UPON THE EARTH._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_EVEN AS THE ROEBUCK AND THE HART IS EATEN, SO THOU SHALT EAT THEM: THE UNCLEAN AND THE CLEAN SHALL EAT OF THEM ALIKE._ Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat ... Game when procured in the wilderness had not been required to be brought to the door of the tabernacle. The people... [ Continue Reading ]
_ONLY BE SURE THAT THOU EAT NOT THE BLOOD: FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE; AND THOU MAYEST NOT EAT THE LIFE WITH THE FLESH._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ONLY THY HOLY THINGS WHICH THOU HAST, AND THY VOWS, THOU SHALT TAKE, AND GO UNTO THE PLACE WHICH THE LORD SHALL CHOOSE:_ Only thy holy things which thou hast. The tithes mentioned, Deuteronomy 12:17, are not to be considered ordinary tithes, which belonged to the Levites, and of which private Isra... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT OFFER THY BURNT OFFERINGS, THE FLESH AND THE BLOOD, UPON THE ALTAR OF THE LORD THY GOD: AND THE BLOOD OF THY SACRIFICES SHALL BE POURED OUT UPON THE ALTAR OF THE LORD THY GOD, AND THOU SHALT EAT THE FLESH._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_TAKE HEED TO THYSELF THAT THOU BE NOT SNARED BY FOLLOWING THEM, AFTER THAT THEY BE DESTROYED FROM BEFORE THEE; AND THAT THOU INQUIRE NOT AFTER THEIR GODS, SAYING, HOW DID THESE NATIONS SERVE THEIR GODS? EVEN SO WILL I DO LIKEWISE._ Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared ... saying, How did t... [ Continue Reading ]