Deuteronomy 12 - Introduction

SUMMARY OF CHAPTER TWELVE

All monuments of idolatry in the promised land to be destroyed, 1-3; and God's service to be duly performed, 4-7. The difference between the performance of that service in the wilderness and in the promised land, 8-11. The people are to be happy in all their religious observances, 12. The offerings must be brought to the place which God appoints, and no blood is to be eaten, 13-16. The tithe of corn, wine, oil, &c., to be eaten in the place that God shall choose, 17, 18. The Levite must not be forsaken, 19. All clean beasts may be eaten, but the blood must be poured out before the Lord, and be eaten on no pretense whatever, 20-25. Of vows, burnt-offerings, &c., 26, 27. These precepts are to be carefully obeyed, 28. Cautions against the abominations of the heathen, 29-31. Nothing to be added to or diminished from the word of God. 32.

QUESTIONS, LESSON NINE (Deuteronomy 12:1-28)

1.

Where were the various places the heathen might worship?

2.

The destruction of idolatry and heathen practices was to be so complete, Moses said Ye shall destroy their ________ out of that place.

3.

Why have a centralized worship?

4.

Their place of sacrifice was to be the place which Jehovah your God shall choose. What place is mentioned in Deuteronomy? It was, successively, ________, ________, and ________.

5.

How do you reconcile the statements of scripture that specify in one place the tithes and offerings are to be the priests-', and elsewhere that thou shalt eat the flesh?

6.

Suppose a man felt, in his own considered judgment, that it was not expedient or convenient to worship in the place which Jehovah chose? What then?

7.

Suppose a man lived a long way from the designated place of sacrifice. What provision was made for him? Did he have to go to the designated place at all?

8.

What part (s) of the sacrificial victim could not be eaten?

9.

What reason is given for this?

10.

What harm would result if the Levite was forsaken? How does Paul apply this principle?