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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Deuteronomy 18:10

There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

Ver. 10. That maketh his son.] See Trapp on " Lev 18:21 "

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See also Deuteronomy 18:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 18:10. _TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE_] Probably in the way of consecration to Molech, or some other deity. It is not likely that their being _burnt to death_ is here intended. Leviticus...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE - i. e., to Moloch; compare the Leviticus 20:2 note. THAT USETH DIVINATION - Compare Numbers 23:23 note. OBSERVER OF TIMES ... ENCHANTER - Compare...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OR. Note the Figure of speech _Paradiastole._ App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _There shall not be found with thee_ Deuteronomy 17:2. _that maketh his son … to pass through the fire_ See on Deuteronomy 12:31: the want of a conjunction following this clause (so also Sam. and LXX...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 10. _OR THAT USETH DIVINATION_— The Hebrew is קסמים קסם _kesem kesamim, divining divinations;_ which may signify, either divination by lots, after the manner of the _sortes Praenestinae, sortes...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LESSON FOURTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:18-20; DEUTERONOMY 17:2 TO DEUTERONOMY 18:22 e. THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THERE SHALL NOT BE FOUND AMONG YOU ANY ONE THAT MAKETH HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE, OR THAT USETH DIVINATION, OR AN OBSERVER OF TIMES, OR AN ENCHANTER, OR A WITCH,_ That useth d...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PRIESTLY DUES. CHARACTER AND WORK OF THE TRUE PROPHET 1-8. The Priestly dues: see on Numbers 18....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PASS THROUGH THE FIRE] The context here seems to imply that this was a method of divining or obtaining an oracle from a god: cp. on Leviticus 18:21. USETH DIVINATION] a general term, but applied speci...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (9-14) Certain forms of idolatry to be avoided, especially unlawful means of communication with the unseen world....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE. — See Leviticus 18:21. USETH DIVINATION — (Numbers 22:7), possibly by sacrifices. OBSERVER OF TIMES. — This is the Rabbinical explanation of the word. In Hebrew the idea of...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹֽא ־יִמָּצֵ֣א בְךָ֔ מַעֲבִ֥יר בְּנֹֽו ־וּ ב

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to (e) pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, (e)...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Fire. This impiety is not punished with death, (Leviticus xviii. 21,) as the burning of children was, Leviticus xx. 2. (Grotius) --- It was done in imitation of the latter, and became more common, as...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._There shall not be found among you. _This horrible and altogether monstrous infatuation, whereby the Gentiles had been possessed, afterwards invaded the Jews also, that they should immolate and ev...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THERE SHALL NOT BE FOUND AMONG YOU ANYONE THAT MAKETH HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE,.... To Moloch, which was a sort of lustration by fire, two fires being made, and the child led b...

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

    _That maketh his son or daughter pass through the fire_ By a superstitious dedicating, or a cruel sacrificing of them, see on Leviticus 18:21. _That useth divination_ Of which there were many sorts, a...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, as the worshipers of Moloch, or Molech, did, OR THAT USETH DIVINATION, to uncover the future, N...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WARNING AGAINST HEATHEN ABOMINATIONS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE; either by a superstitious lustration or purgation, or by a cruel sacrificing of them. See Leviticus 18:21 2 Kings 17:31, 2 Kings 23:10...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 18:10 found H4672 (H8735) son H1121 daughter H1323 pass H5674 (H8688) fire H784 practices H7080

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 18:9 ABOMINABLE PRACTICES OF THOSE NATIONS. See note on 12:2–3. BURNS HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER AS AN OFFERING. See...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES. THE ARTS OF DIVINATION OF THE HEATHEN TO BE AVOIDED. PROPHETS PROMISED WHOM...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Samuel 28:3; 1 Samuel 28:7; 1 Samuel 28:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Useth divination — Foretelleth things secret or to come, by unlawful arts and practices. An observer of times — Superstitiously pronouncing some days lucky, and others unlucky. Or, an observer of the...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    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;...

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