Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Deuteronomy 17:1
Bullock or sheep — Either greater or smaller sacrifices, all being comprehended under the two most eminent kinds.
Bullock or sheep — Either greater or smaller sacrifices, all being comprehended under the two most eminent kinds.
CHAPTER XVII _All sacrifices to be without blemish_, 1. _Of persons consisted of idolatry and their punishment_, 2-7. _Difficult matters in judgment to be laid before the priests and_ _judges, and...
This verse belongs in subject to the last chapter. It prohibits once more (compare Deuteronomy 15:21) that form of insult to God which consists in offering to Him a blemished sacrifice. ANY EVIL-FAVOR...
13. JUSTICE AND THE CHOICE OF A KING Chapter S 16:18-17:20 _ 1. Appointment of judges and their instruction (Deuteronomy 16:18; Deuteronomy 17:1)_ 2. The higher court at the place He chooses ...
DEUTERONOMY 16:21- DEUTERONOMY 17:7. LAWS DEMANDING PURE WORSHIP AND SUITABLE SACRIFICES. This breaks the connexion; its proper place is probably between Deuteronomy 12 and Deuteronomy 13. Deuterono
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
Deuteronomy 16:21 to Deuteronomy 17:7. Isolated Group of Laws on Worship This group of laws against heathen symbols and blemished sacrifices and the worship of other gods all of them abominations to,...
4. GENERAL RULES FOR OBSERVANCE (Deuteronomy 16:16-17; Deuteronomy 16:21-22; Deuteronomy 17:1) 16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which
LESSON FOURTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:18-20; DEUTERONOMY 17:2 TO DEUTERONOMY 18:22 e. THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ...
_THOU SHALT NOT SACRIFICE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD ANY BULLOCK, OR SHEEP, WHEREIN IS BLEMISH, OR ANY_ _ THOU SHALT NOT SACRIFICE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD ANY BULLOCK, OR SHEEP, WHEREIN IS BLEMISH, OR ANY EV...
17:1 sheep (e-12) Or 'goat.'...
THE PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY. CONTROVERSIES TO BE SETTLED BY PRIESTS AND JUDGES. ELECTION AND DUTIES OF A KING 1. Cp. Leviticus 22:17....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 17 V1 ‘If any sheep or *cattle are not perfect, do not *sacrifice them to the *LORD your God. Th...
XVII. (1) THOU SHALT NOT SACRIFICE... — The law concerning the purity of victims is given in full in Leviticus 22:17. It takes its place there among the special laws of holiness. The same principle ap...
לֹא ־תִזְבַּח֩ לַ יהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ שֹׁ֣ור וָ
Continuing the discourse commenced in the previous chapter, we find insistence on the fact that no false sacrifices must be offered and no false worshipers permitted to approach. For dealing with such...
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any] bullock, or sheep, wherein is (a) blemish, [or] any evilfavouredness: for that [is] an abomination unto the LORD thy God. (a) You shall not serve...
_Ox. By this name all bulls, cows, &c., are designated. For it was not lawful to sacrifice any thing which had lost any member, Exodus xii. 5., and Leviticus i. 3._...
CONTENTS The subject of the divine laws is continued through this Chapter. Moses under GOD'S authority, points out the unblemished state required of the animals to be offered in sacrifice; of the pun...
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...
Verse 18 [from Chapter 16] (Deuteronomy 16:18) begins a new subject: the pains taken, and the instruments used, to preserve the blessing and execute the judgments necessary to that effect. The thought...
THOU SHALT NOT SACRIFICE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD ANY BULLOCK OR SHEEP WHEREIN IS BLEMISH,.... No sacrifice of any sort, whether burnt offering, sin offering, or peace offering, was to have any blemish i...
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 sacr...
Having spoken of the principal services and offerings prescribed in the law for preventing the Israelites from idolatrous practices, Moses interposes a caution against neglect or profaneness in their...
1 The things sacrificed must bee sound. 2 Idolaters must bee slaine. 8 Hard controuersies are to bee determined by the Priests and Iudges. 12 The contemner of that Determination must die. 14 The e...
PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY...
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord, thy God, any bullock or sheep wherein is blemish, or any evil-favoredness; for that is an abomination unto the Lord, thy God. The offering of an imperfect anima...
RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT (This Continues the subject of) (chap.16:13 to 17:11) This continues the subject of righteous government. The guilt of offering a blemished sacrifice to the Lord must incur sev...
SHEEP: Or, goat...
1-7 No creature which had any blemish was to be offered in sacrifice to God. We are thus called to remember the perfect, pure, and spotless sacrifice of Christ, and reminded to serve God with the bes...
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 17 They are not to offer blemished sacrifices, DEUTERONOMY 17:1. Idolaters are to be put to death, DEUTERONOMY 17:2. Doubts in difficult matters to be resolved by priests and judge...
We must remember that the division of scripture into Chapter s and verses is entirely a human arrangement, often very convenient, no doubt, for reference; but not infrequently it is quite unwarrantabl...
Deuteronomy 17:1 sacrifice H2076 (H8799) LORD H3068 God H430 bull H7794 sheep H7716 blemish H3971 defect H7451
CHAPTER 17 HONOURING YAHWEH AND ESTABLISHING TRUE JUSTICE. The emphasis on right justice and right behaviour towards Yahweh has led on to the banning of wooden Asherim and stone Pillars as an approach...
CONTENTS: Laws concerning idolaters and obedience to authority and kings. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God would possess men with a dread of that sin worshipping false gods which is a sin in...
Deuteronomy 17:3. _Either sun or moon._ This would be going back to Sabianism, which from the dispersion of Babel became the religion of Asia, as stated in Job 1:15. Deuteronomy 17:8. A matter too har...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 17:1 SACRIFICE... BLEMISH. See Leviticus 22:17; Mal
CRITICAL REMARKS.—Israel not only had tendency to idolatry, but inclination to offer animals with faults and to transgress the laws of worship. _Blemishes_ named in Leviticus 22. Deuteronomy 17:2. Ido...
EXPOSITION SACRIFICES TO BE OF ANIMALS UNBLEMISHED. IDOLATERS TO BE SOUGHT OUT, CONVICTED, AND PUT TO DEATH. THE HIGHER JUDICIAL COURT
As you've discovered by now the book of Deuteronomy is sort of a review of the law. The word itself indicates the second law. It is a review by Moses for the people. Really a final review because Mose...
1 Peter 1:19; Deuteronomy 15:21; Deuteronomy 23:18; Deuteronomy 24:4;...