Imitate. Hebrew, "be ensnared by imitation them." The example of the wicked, is one of the most dangerous snares which the devil can place in our way. Notwithstanding these repeated admonitions of God, we see how prone the Hebrews were to adopt the superstitious customs of these nations, whose destruction ought surely to have warned them to keep at a distance. (Haydock)
This caution is based upon the notion generally entertained in the ancient pagan world, that each country had its own tutelary deities whom it would be perilous to neglect; compare 1 Kings 20:23; 2 Ki...
8. THE PLACE OF WORSHIP CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The overthrow of false worship (Deuteronomy 12:1)_ 2. The true place of worship (Deuteronomy 12:5) 3. Concerning eating and the blood (D
HOW... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
Transition to the Laws in 13 (and those in Deuteronomy 16:21 to Deuteronomy 17:7) When settled in W. Palestine Israel shall not inquire into the manner of the worship of the local deities, and so be...
_VER._ 30. _ENQUIRE NOT AFTER THEIR GODS,_ &C.— The pretentious of the heathen deities, as Bishop Warburton observes, being mutually acknowledged by their distinct and proper followers; and some, by t...
LESSON TEN DEUTERONOMY 12:29 TO DEUTERONOMY 13:18; DEUTERONOMY 17:2-13 2. ONE GOD: DEATH PENALTIES FOR APOSTASY ...
_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 GO...
THE ABOLITION OF IDOLATROUS PLACES. THE CENTRALISATION OF WORSHIP. ABSTINENCE FROM BLOOD The larger section of the Second Discourse begins here and extends to the end of Deuteronomy 26. It consists of...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 12 V1 ‘You must be careful to *keep these rules and laws for as long as you live in the country...
TAKE HEED TO THYSELF THAT THOU BE NOT SNARED. — A necessary caution. “The fear” of heathen deities often attached itself to their seats of worship. It was found necessary to caution Israel against the...
הִשָּׁ֣מֶר לְךָ֗ פֶּן ־תִּנָּקֵשׁ֙ אַחֲרֵיהֶ֔ם אַחֲרֵ֖י...
LAWS OF SACRIFICE Deuteronomy 12:1. IT is a characteristic of all the earlier codes of law-the Book of the Covenant, the Deuteronomic Code, and the Law of Holiness-that at the head of the series of l...
Having thus repeated the great words of the Law and called the people to obedience, Moses now proceeded to deal with the statutes and judgments, and, first, the statutes. In dealing with these he com...
Take heed to thyself that thou be not (p) snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their...
I take occasion from this precept to remark, how needful it must be for the heart to be established in grace, that we may not be carried about with diverse and strange doctrines. Alas! if our religion...
In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 12 AND 13. The second division begins with chapter 12, and contains the statutes and ordinances they were bound to observe. It is not a repetition of the old...
TAKE HEED TO THYSELF, THAT THOU BE NOT SNARED BY FOLLOWING THEM,.... Their examples and customs, and so be drawn into the same idolatrous practices; see Psalms 106:35, after that they be destroyed fro...
_By following them_ By following the example they left, when their persons are destroyed....
1 Monuments of Idolatrie are to be destroyed. 5 The place of Gods seruice is to be kept. 15.23 Blood is forbidden. 17.20.26 Holy things must bee eaten in the Holy place. 19 The Leuite is not to be f...
CONCERNING THE CARE OF THE LEVITES, THE EATING OF SACRIFICIAL MEAT, AND IDOLATRY...
take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, fall into the same snare of idolatry which caused their downfall, AFTER THAT THEY BE DESTROYED FROM BEFORE THEE, for that judgment of th...
ONE CENTER OF WORSHIP (vs.1-28) To prepare for proper worship in the land, Israel must utterly destroy those in which the nations before them served their idols. This was commonly done in high places...
BY FOLLOWING THEM: _ Heb._ after them...
5-32 The command to bring ALL the sacrifices to the door of the tabernacle, was now explained with reference to the promised land. As to moral service, then, as now, men might pray and worship every...
SNARED; drawn into their sin and ruin. AFTER THAT THEY BE DESTROYED; i.e. by following the example they left, when their persons are destroyed. THAT THOU INQUIRE NOT AFTER THEIR GODS, through curiosit...
We now enter upon a new section of our marvellous book. The discourses contained in the first eleven Chapter s having established the all-important principle of obedience, we now come to the practical...
Deuteronomy 12:30 heed H8104 (H8734) ensnared H5367 (H8735) follow H310 after H310 destroyed H8045 (H8736) b
THEY ARE TO BEWARE OF THE GODS OF THE NATIONS AND NOT BE ENTRAPPED BY THEM (DEUTERONOMY 12:29). Deuteronomy 12:29 ‘ When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, in the place where...
CONTENTS: Statements of conditions of blessing in the land. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: We must not think that our religion is only for our years of servitude or our entertainment in the pla...
Deuteronomy 12:5. _The place which the Lord shall choose._ No place is here named; for the Lord was content, and most significantly, to dwell in the tent. He sojourned in the desert; and afterwards re...
_Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following after them._ DANGER OF A CONQUERED FOE It is a remarkable fact, and is proved by Dr. Bell (in his _History of British Insects_), that the po...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 12:30 TAKE CARE THAT YOU BE NOT ENSNARED. See Deuteronomy 7:2; and note on 7:5....
CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses now begins an exposition of the principal laws which must govern the people in their ecclesiastical, civil, and domestic life in Canaan. The religious life of Israel is described...
EXPOSITION ANNOUNCEMENT OF PARTICULAR LAWS. CHAPTERS 12-26. Moses, having in his first address cast a glance at the events which had transpired between Sinai and the plains of Moab, and in his second...
In chapter twelve he gives the conditions whereby they should enjoy the blessings within the land. First of all they are to utterly destroy all of the places, where there the people that inhabited the...
1 Peter 4:3; 1 Peter 4:4; 2 Kings 17:15; Deuteronomy 7:16; Ephesians
By following them — By following the example they left, when their persons are destroyed....