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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Exodus 23:13

Make no mention, to wit, with honour or delight, or without detestation; as fornication is not to be named among saints, Ephesians 5:3. Or, not mention them in your worship, or in oaths, or in common discourse, and without special occasion, lest the frequent mention of them might keep up their memory, or introduce their worship. Hence the names of idols and idolatrous places were ofttimes changed by the Israelites. See Numbers 32:38 Joshua 23:7 Compare Psalms 16:4 Hosea 2:17 Malachi 13:2.

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See also Exodus 23:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Compare Deuteronomy 4:9; Joshua 22:5; Ephesians 5:15....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 23:10 E. CALENDAR AND RULES FOR WORSHIP. This passage may originally have followed Exodus 23-26 in the Covenant Book. It has been expanded, Exodus 23:13 being a conclusion (perhaps displaced fr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BE CIRCUMSPECT. take heed. MAKE NO MENTION, &c.. command often disobeyed, especially in house _of_ Saul. Compare "Baal", 1 Chronicles 8:33; 1 Chronicles 9:39. 1Ch 12:5. 1 Chronicles 14:7

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 _The Book of the Covenant_ The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The laws co...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    God's commands to be honoured; and -other gods" not even to be mentioned, still less invoked in worship. The verse can hardly be in place in the midst of laws relating to sacred seasons. It reads like...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 93 ON CIRCUMSPECTION Exodus 23:13. _In all things that I have said unto you, be circumspect_. IF we were about to prosecute a journey through an extensive forest, where the path was exceed...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 23 THOU SHALT NOT TAKE UP A FALSE REPORT: PUT NOT THY HAND WITH THE WICKED TO BE AN UNRIGHTEOUS WITNESS. (2) THOU SHALT NOT FOLLOW A MULTITUDE TO DO EVIL; NEITHER SHALT...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND IN ALL THINGS THAT I HAVE SAID UNTO YOU BE CIRCUMSPECT: AND MAKE NO MENTION OF THE NAME OF OTHER GODS, NEITHER LET IT BE HEARD OUT OF THY MOUTH._ Make no mention ... - i:e., in common conversati...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONCLUDED) 1-19. Miscellaneous Laws....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BE CIRCUMSPECT. — Rather, _take heed._ The verb used is a very common one. MAKE NO MENTION OF THE NAME OF OTHER GODS. — The Jewish commentators understand _swearing_ by the name of other gods to be th...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XXIII. (1-19) The “miscellaneous laws” are here continued. From Exodus 23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced; from Exodus 23:10 to the first clause of...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ בְ כֹ֛ל אֲשֶׁר ־אָמַ֥רְתִּי אֲלֵיכֶ֖ם תִּש

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The enactments now recorded have to do with the administration of justice. A study of them reveals that true justice is always merciful and yet makes sterner demand than any moral code of laws. The di...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And in all [things] that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make (f) no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. (f) Neither by swearing by them, nor speakin...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Name. Hence it is supposed, the Jews had given abusive titles to the idols; as they call Beelzebub the god-fly, &c. No respect was to be shewn to them. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._Make no mention of the name of other gods. _There is no sort of doubt but that this declaration should be connected with the Third Commandment. Moses explains that God’s name is taken in vain and...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And in all [things] that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. Ver. 13. _Be circumspect._] Or wary; keep you cl...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _In all things be circumspect_ We are in danger of missing our way on the right hand and on the left, and it is at our peril if we do, therefore we have need to look _about us._ A man may ruin himself...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Of slander and false witnesse. 3.6 Of iustice. 4 Of charitablenesse. 10 Of the yeere of rest. 12 Of the Sabbath. 13 Of idolatrie. 14 Of the three feasts. 18 Of the blood and the fat of the sac...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect, be on your guard, watch most carefully; AND MAKE NO MENTION OF THE NAME OF OTHER GODS, the very reference to them being prohibited, NEITHER...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE HOLY PERIODS AND FEASTS...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    C. FIRST FORM OF THE LAW OF THE POLITICAL COMMONWEALTH Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33 _a. Right of Personal Freedom (according to Bertheau, ten in number)_ 1Now these _are_ the judgments [ordinances] w...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    INSISTENCE ON HONESTY (vs.1-9) Consistently with the language of law, the question of honesty is looked at from a negative viewpoint, that is, emphasizing what one should not do. How easily one may c...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-19 Every seventh year the land was to rest. They must not plough or sow it; what the earth produced of itself, should be eaten, and not laid up. This law seems to have been intended to teach depen...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The study of this section of our book is eminently calculated to impress the heart with a sense d God's unsearchable wisdom and infinite goodness. It enables one to form some idea of the character of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 23:13 said H559 (H8804) circumspect H8104 (H8735) mention H2142 (H8686) name H8034 other H312 gods...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    REGULATIONS CONCERNING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF YAHWEH'S LORDSHIP (EXODUS 23:10). Here we have two sets of regulations which refer to work and rest. A SEVEN-YEAR REST (EXODUS 23:10). Exodus 23:10 “An

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    EXPANSION OF THE TEN WORDS OF THE COVENANT (EXODUS 20:22 TO EXODUS 23:33). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on the Ten W...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Judgments on the national feasts. Instructions concerning the conquest of Canaan. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God's angels will keep the believer in the way, though it lay through...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 23:1. _Put not thine hand with the wicked,_ do not conspire or agree with them. Exodus 23:3. _Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man._ The meaning of this and the former verse is, there sha...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 23:10 See note on 20:22–26. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 23:13_ THE NEED OF CIRCUMSPECTION The man who makes a wise use of his eyes is in so far circumspect. Words that primarily set forth bodily actions are secon...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Thou shalt not raise a false report: [perjury] to put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. [In other words, conspiracy in perjury.] Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; [Yo...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    be circumspect Deuteronomy 4:9 Deuteronomy 4:15 Joshua 22:5 Joshua 23:11...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    In all things that I have said unto you be circumspect — We are in danger of missing our way on the right hand and on the left, and it is at our peril if we do, therefore we have need to look about us...

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