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The cases in question are such as the inferior judges did not feel
able to decide satisfactorily, and which accordingly they remitted to
their superiors (compare Exodus 18:23).
The Supreme court Deute...
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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 ...
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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
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A central tribunal to be established (at Jerusalem) to try cases too
hard for the local courts (Deuteronomy 16:18); see Deuteronomy 1:9 *.
Deuteronomy 17:8. Two (three?) sample cases are mentioned, vi...
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_hear, and fear_ Deuteronomy 13:11 (12)....
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Of the Judges of Final Appeal
Local cases too hard for the local courts (see Deuteronomy 16:18-20,
on which this passage immediately follows) are to be taken before the
Priests, the Levites at the Sa...
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_VER._ 13. _AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL HEAR,_ &C.— This punishment was
inflicted for an example and severe warning to those who were yet
innocent; as Seneca observes, _nemo prudens punit quia peccatum e...
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LESSON FOURTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:18-20; DEUTERONOMY 17:2 TO DEUTERONOMY
18:22
e. THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ...
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Deuteronomy 17:2-13
2 If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates
which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which
is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in...
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_AND THOU SHALT COME UNTO THE PRIESTS THE LEVITES, AND UNTO THE JUDGE
THAT SHALL BE IN THOSE DAYS, AND INQUIRE; AND THEY SHALL SHEW THEE THE
SENTENCE OF JUDGMENT:_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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THE PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY. CONTROVERSIES TO BE SETTLED BY PRIESTS AND
JUDGES. ELECTION AND DUTIES OF A KING
1. Cp. Leviticus 22:17....
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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...
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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...
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_Pride. Hebrew, "do presumptuously," as the Protestants translate. How
will they excuse their leaders, Luther, &c., and themselves, from this
grievous charge? If the person, who presumed to assert tha...
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The apostle Paul from the case of the presumptuous man here noticed,
takes occasion to draw a very striking inference in his Epistle to the
Hebrews, in those who tread underfoot the SON of GOD, and co...
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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...
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13._And all the people. _He shews from the object of the enactment why
the proud despisers (of the priests) were not to be spared; for
punishments have reference to common example, whilst, on the othe...
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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...
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AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL HEAR, AND FEAR,.... All the people of Israel
in their own cities, and particularly the judges in those cities; they
shall hear of what is done to the obstinate and disobedient...
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_When thou shalt say, I will set a king over me_ He only foresees and
foretels what they would do, but does not hereby signify that he
should approve of it. Yea, when they did this thing, for the very...
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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...
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And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
presumptuously, be deterred from choosing a similar insolent course.
Christian pastors should remember that it is their duty to teach their
cong...
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DIFFICULT QUESTIONS TO BE DECIDED BY THE PRIEST...
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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...
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8-13 Courts of judgment were to be set up in every city. Though their
judgment had not the Divine authority of an oracle, it was the
judgment of wise, prudent, experienced men, and had the advantage o...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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...
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Deuteronomy 17:13 people H5971 hear H8085 (H8799) fear H3372 (H8799)
presumptuously H2102 (H8686)
shall hear -...
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THE PLACE OF FINAL APPEAL (DEUTERONOMY 17:8).
But if a case was brought which was too hard for the local justices to
decide, there was to be a final place of appeal made up of the
levitical priests an...
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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...
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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...
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_Thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations._
HEATHEN ABOMINATIONS AVOIDED
One reason to shun the practices of idolatry springs from the nature
of the evils themselves.
1. Th...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 17:10 The decision of the central
sanctuary court is final. THAT MAN SHALL DIE. Refusal to follow the
ruling of the court is itself a capital offense, for it is a rejec...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
SACRIFICES TO BE OF ANIMALS UNBLEMISHED. IDOLATERS TO BE SOUGHT OUT,
CONVICTED, AND PUT TO DEATH. THE HIGHER JUDICIAL COURT
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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...
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Deuteronomy 13:11; Deuteronomy 19:20; Numbers 15:30; Numbers 15:31...
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When thou shalt — He only foresees and foretells what they would do,
but doth not approve of it. Yea when they did this thing for this very
reason, he declares his utter dislike of it, 1 Samuel 8:7....