Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any] bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, [or] any evilfavouredness: for that [is] an abomination unto the LORD thy God. Ver. 1. _Thou shalt not sacrifice._] _See Trapp on "_ Lev 22:20 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, Ver. 2. _That hath wrought wickedness._] Idolatry is wickedness with a witness. Such was the venom of... [ Continue Reading ]
_And it be told thee, and thou hast heard [of it], and enquired diligently, and, behold, [it be] true, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought in Israel:_ Ver. 4. _And it be told thee._] _See Trapp on "_ Deu 13:12 _"_ And inquired diligently.] Men must be "swift to hear, slow t... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, [even] that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die._ Ver. 7. _Thou shalt put the evil._] Both person and thing. 1Co 5:13... [ Continue Reading ]
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; [but] at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. Ver. 8. _Too hard for thee in judgment,_] _i.e., _ For thee, O judge, who art thereupon to consult with the priests, and by them to be... [ Continue Reading ]
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you. Ver. 9. _And unto the judge,_] _i.e., _ The council of judges, the Synedrion, 2Ch 19:8 consisting partly of priests and partly of civil... [ Continue Reading ]
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, [being] matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; Ver. 10. _According to al... [ Continue Reading ]
When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that [are] about me; Ver. 14. _And shalt say, I will set a king._] A king then they might choose, so they did it orde... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: [one] from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which [is] not thy brother. Ver. 15. _Whom the Lord shall choose._] As he did Saul, but especially David and hi... [ Continue Reading ]
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. Ver. 16. _He shall not multiply horses._] Lest he be held as our Henry III was, _Re... [ Continue Reading ]
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. Ver. 17. _Silver and gold._] Lest his exactors receive from his subjects no less sums of curses than of coin; and lest he gather money, the sinews of war, but lose... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites: Ver. 18. _He shall write him a copy._] The Jews say, that if printing had been found out then, yet was the king bound to write... [ Continue Reading ]
_And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:_ Ver. 19. _And it shall be with him._] As his _Vade-mecum,_ his manual, his running library, the man of his co... [ Continue Reading ]
That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, [to] the right hand, or [to] the left: to the end that he may prolong [his] days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel. Ver. 20. _That his heart be not lifted up._] That his g... [ Continue Reading ]