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PERFECT - As in Genesis 17:1; Job 1:1; Matthew 5:48. The sense is that
Israel was to keep the worship of the true God wholly uncontaminated
by idolatrous pollutions....
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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...
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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...
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PERFECT. devoted, or single-hearted....
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_perfect blameless_; not elsewhere in D, but twice in P in this moral
sense (Genesis 6:9 of Noah, Deuteronomy 17:1 required of Abraham as
the condition of God granting him His covenant) and frequent i...
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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...
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DISCOURSE: 212
CHRISTIAN PERFECTION
Deuteronomy 18:13. _Thou shall be perfect with the Lord thy God._
IT seems strange that any who have ever heard of Jehovah, should need
to be put on their guard ag...
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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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(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...
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_FOR ALL THAT DO THESE THINGS ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD: AND
BECAUSE OF THESE ABOMINATIONS THE LORD THY GOD DOTH DRIVE THEM OUT
FROM BEFORE THEE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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THE PRIESTLY DUES. CHARACTER AND WORK OF THE TRUE PROPHET
1-8. The Priestly dues: see on Numbers 18....
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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...
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THOU SHALT BE PERFECT WITH THE LORD THY GOD. — Rashi’s note on
this is worth preserving: “Thou shalt walk with Him in sincerity,
and wait for Him. And thou shalt not pry into the future. But
whatsoeve...
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(9-14) Certain forms of idolatry to be avoided, especially unlawful
means of communication with the unseen world....
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תָּמִ֣ים תִּֽהְיֶ֔ה עִ֖ם יְהוָ֥ה
אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ ס...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Thou shalt be (f) perfect with the LORD thy God.
(f) Without hypocrisy or mixture or false religion....
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_And without spot. This is by way of explication of the word perfect.
Any mixture of superstition in the worship of God is hateful to him;
and that man who acknowledges any other spirit capable of for...
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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...
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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._Thou shalt be perfect. _He refers to the mutual obligation of that
holy covenant whereby as on the one side He had pledged Himself to the
Jews, so on the other He had made them His debtors, not to...
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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...
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THOU SHALT BE PERFECT WITH THE LORD THY GOD. Sincerely serve and
worship him, faithfully adhere to his word, laws, statutes, and
ordinances, and walk uprightly before him....
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Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
Ver. 13. _Thou shalt be perfect._] _See Trapp on "_ Mat 5:48 _"_ In
the original there is a bigger _tau_ than ordinary in the word
_Tamim,_ rendered perfe...
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_Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God_ Sincerely and wholly
his, seeking him and cleaving to him, and to his word alone, and
therefore abhorring all commerce and conversations with devils. _Hat...
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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...
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Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord, thy God. The Hebrew text at this
point is very emphatic: Sincere, upright, irreproachable shalt thou be
before Jehovah, thy God, namely, as a people consecrated to...
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WARNING AGAINST HEATHEN ABOMINATIONS...
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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...
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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...
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Sincerely and wholly his, seeking him and cleaving to him and to his
word alone, and therefore abhorring all commerce and conversations
with devils or their agents, such as were now mentioned....
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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...
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Deuteronomy 18:13 blameless H8549 LORD H3068 God H430
Thou shalt - Genesis 6:9, Genesis 17:1;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES. THE ARTS OF DIVINATION OF THE
HEATHEN TO BE AVOIDED. PROPHETS PROMISED WHOM...
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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...
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Genesis 17:1; Genesis 6:9; Job 1:1; Job 1:8; Matthew 5:48;...
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Perfect — Sincerely and wholly his, seeking him and cleaving to him
and to his word alone, and therefore abhorring all commerce and
conversations with devils....
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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;...