For these nations which thou shalt possess, by taking possession of their country, hearkened unto observers of times, to conjurers and magicians, and unto diviners, and so they will receive their punishment; but as for thee, the Lord, thy God, hath not suffered thee so to do. Israel should remain absolutely undefiled by such practices, even as all true believers of all times abhor them from the bottom of their hearts.
14. THE RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES, THE TRUE AND THE FALSE PROPHET CHAPTER 18 _ 1. The rights of the priests and Levites (Deuteronomy 18:1)_ 2. Forbidden things (Deuteronomy 18:9) kite h...
CONCERNING THE PROPHET. The Israelites are to consult Yahweh through His accredited messenger the prophet, and not through diviners who seek oracles by heathen methods. There is no parallel law in JE...
Of Prophets in contrast to Diviners, etc. In the promised land Israel must have nothing to do with the abominations of its peoples (Deuteronomy 18:9); with any one passing his children through the fi...
(4) PROPHETS (Deuteronomy 18:9-22) 9 When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found...
LESSON FOURTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:18-20; DEUTERONOMY 17:2 TO DEUTERONOMY 18:22 e. THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ...
_FOR ALL THAT DO THESE THINGS ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD: AND BECAUSE OF THESE ABOMINATIONS THE LORD THY GOD DOTH DRIVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE THEE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE PRIESTLY DUES. CHARACTER AND WORK OF THE TRUE PROPHET 1-8. The Priestly dues: see on Numbers 18....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 18 V1 ‘The priests are *Levites. They and all the *tribe called Levi, will not have any share o...
(9-14) Certain forms of idolatry to be avoided, especially unlawful means of communication with the unseen world....
THE LORD THY GOD HATH NOT SUFFERED THEE SO TO DO. — More literally, _As for thee, not so hath Jehovah thy God given unto thee. A prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me, will Jeh...
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SPEAKERS FOR GOD - III. THE PROPHET Deuteronomy 18:9. THE third of the Divine voices to this nation was the prophet. Just as in the other Semitic nations round about Israel there were kings and prie...
THE PROPHET WHO WAS TO COME Deuteronomy 18:1 Those that serve the altar may live by the altar. Let us not forget the needs of those who serve us in holy things. It is a blessed thing when an individu...
In dealing with the priest who was already found among the people by the appointment of God, the fact that he was to have no inheritance in the land was restated. Then a special provision was made for...
God, who has already informed thee how to proceed in difficult emergencies, (chap. xvii. 8,) by having recourse to the council of priests, and will also, after any death, send in due time a succession...
It is wonderful to observe, how much Moses was led to speak to the people against the idolatry of the neighboring nations around them. As if the LORD meant to convey by the frequency of his precepts o...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
14._For these nations. _As God had just before been setting before them the punishment He was about to inflict upon these nations, in order to alarm and warn them, so now does he admonish them that th...
The priests and the whole tribe of Levi have their portion assigned to them. The people are forbidden to do after those abominations, on account of which the nations which inhabited the land were driv...
FOR THOSE NATIONS WHICH THOU SHALL POSSESS HEARKENED UNTO OBSERVERS OF TIMES, AND UNTO DIVINERS,.... Such as are before mentioned, and did as they directed them: BUT AS FOR THEE, THE LORD THY GOD HAT...
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so [to do]. Ver. 14. _Hath not suffered the...
_Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God_ Sincerely and wholly his, seeking him and cleaving to him, and to his word alone, and therefore abhorring all commerce and conversations with devils. _Hat...
1 The Lord is the Priests and Leuites inheritance. 3 The Priests due. 6 The Leuites portion. 9 The abominations of the Nations are to bee auoyded. 15 Christ the Prophet is to be heard. 20 The pre...
PRIESTS AND LEVITES: THEIR DUE (vs.1-8) The proper support of the priests and Levites is again insisted on. Since they were given no inheritance in the land, and were separated to care for the intere...
POSSESS: Or, inherit...
9-14 Was it possible that a people so blessed with Divine institutions, should ever be in any danger of making those their teachers whom God had made their captives? They were in danger; therefore, a...
Hath not suffered thee to follow thy own vain mind, and these superstitions and diabolical practices, as he hath suffered other nations to do, ACTS 14:16, but hath instructed thee better by his word a...
The opening paragraph of this chapter suggests a deeply interesting and practical line of truth. "The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; th...
Deuteronomy 18:14 nations H1471 dispossess H3423 (H8802) listened H8085 (H8799) soothsayers H6049 (H8781) diviners...
ASSOCIATION WITH THE OCCULT IS BANNED (DEUTERONOMY 18:9). The nations in the land into which they were about to enter practised all kinds of abominations, things that were hateful to Yahweh. These oc...
CONTENTS: Laws concerning Levites, idolatrous practices and prophets. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Christ. CONCLUSION: God has made Himself known to men through One above all prophets (Acts 3:22; Acts 7:3...
Deuteronomy 18:1. _They shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire._ The sin- offerings, except the skin and the fat, which were burnt on the altar. The ecclesiastics having relinquished the two...
CRITICAL NOTES.—After speaking of the rulers of the people, Moses now mentions the teachers priests, Levites, and prophets; and what their privileges and position must be in their settlement in Canaan...
EXPOSITION RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES. THE ARTS OF DIVINATION OF THE HEATHEN TO BE AVOIDED. PROPHETS PROMISED WHOM...
Now again he repeats how the tribe of Levi is not to be given any portion of the land but they will eat the offerings that were given unto the Lord made by fire as their inheritance for the Lord is th...
Acts 14:16; Deuteronomy 18:10; Genesis 20:6; Psalms 147:19; Ps
Hath not suffered thee so to do — Hath not suffered thee to follow these superstitious and diabolical practices, as he hath suffered other nations to do, but hath instructed thee better by his word an...
How can the command for wholesale slaughter of innocent lives be justified? (See comments on Joshua 6:21) Deuteronomy 20:16-18 —Were the captives to be spared or killed? PROBLEM: In Deuteronomy 20:11;...