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Verse Deuteronomy 13:3. _THE LORD YOUR GOD PROVETH YOU_] God permits
such impostors to arise to try the faith of his followers, and to put
their religious experience to the test; for he who experimen...
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9. WARNINGS AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS AND THEIR PUNISHMENT
CHAPTER 13
_ 1. The first case: The false prophet and dreamer (Deuteronomy 13:1)_
2. The second case: Temptation to idolatry from blood-relat...
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DEUTERONOMY 12:29 TO DEUTERONOMY 13:1. Yahwism must be kept free from
all taint of Canaanite heathenism when Israel has entered Canaan. The
danger would arise from the ancient belief that everyone sho...
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PROVETH: i.e. suffereth you to be proved. Hebrew idiom, which speaks
of doing what one allows to be done.
YOUR SOUL. yourself. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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1 5 (2 6 in Heb.). Against the Prophet of Other Gods
1. _If there arise in the midst of thee_ So Deuteronomy 19:15-16 also
Sg. Cp. the synonymous _if there be found in the midst of
thee_Deuteronomy 17...
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DISCOURSE: 206
THE JEWS’ LEADING OBJECTION TO CHRISTIANITY CONSIDERED
Deuteronomy 13:1. If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or...
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_VER._ 1-4. _IF THERE ARISE AMONG YOU A PROPHET,_ &C.— The divinity
of their religion, and its peculiar opposition to idolatry, having
been fully shewn,
Moses now proceeds to put the strongest case po...
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LESSON TEN DEUTERONOMY 12:29 TO DEUTERONOMY 13:18; DEUTERONOMY 17:2-13
2. ONE GOD: DEATH PENALTIES FOR APOSTASY
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_AND THE SIGN OR THE WONDER COME TO PASS, WHEREOF HE SPAKE UNTO THEE,
SAYING, LET US GO AFTER OTHER GODS, WHICH THOU HAST NOT KNOWN, AND LET
US SERVE THEM;_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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WARNINGS AGAINST TEMPTATIONS TO IDOLATRY
The people are warned against three possible sources of temptation to
idolatry, viz. the false prophet (Deuteronomy 13:1), an erring member
of the family (Deut...
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 13
V1 ‘A *prophet or someone who explains the meaning of dreams might
promise to you a *sign or...
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_[Deuteronomy 13:4]_ לֹ֣א תִשְׁמַ֗ע אֶל
־דִּבְרֵי֙ הַ...
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LAWS AGAINST IDOLATROUS ACTS AND CUSTOMS
Deuteronomy 13:1; Deuteronomy 14:1
HAVING thus set forth the law which was to crown and complete the long
resistance of faithful Israel to idolatry, our autho...
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CUT OUT THE PLAGUE SPOT
Deuteronomy 13:1
How to exterminate sources of disease is a main question with the
modern world; but the stamping-out of possible sources of temptation
must not less energetic...
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The discourse commenced in chapter twelve continues with carefully
expressed warnings against idolatry, and it is very arresting to note
how the ways by which they might be seduced from the pure worsh...
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Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer
of dreams: for the LORD your God (c) proveth you, to know whether ye
love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your...
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_Trieth you, not in order to induce you to embrace evil, (James i.
13,) nor to discover your real dispositions, but to lay open your
hearts to yourselves and to the world, (Haydock) that, if you conti...
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But is it not yet more strange, that the LORD should permit the
prediction of false teachers to come to pass? The answer is at hand.
GOD hath given the reason: It is to prove the believer. And what is...
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In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be
called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of
institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
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3._For the Lord your God proveth you. _(Latin, _tentat vos.) _Whenever
this word, which means _to tempt, _is applied to God, it is not used
in a bad sense, for “to take by guile,” or, “to lay snares o...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 12 AND 13.
The second division begins with chapter 12, and contains the statutes
and ordinances they were bound to observe. It is not a repetition of
the old...
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THOU SHALL NOT HEARKEN TO THE WORDS OF THAT PROPHET, OR THAT DREAMER
OF DREAMS,.... Even though he does give the sign, and work the wonder;
for it might be reasonably concluded there must be fallacy i...
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Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer
of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love
the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your sou...
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_And the sign or wonder come to pass_ God permitting Satan or his
agents to do what is above the ordinary course of nature for thy
trial. _Saying, Let us go after other gods_ That is, who, upon the
si...
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1 Inticers to idolatrie,
6 how neere soeuer vnto thee,
9 are to be stoned to death.
12 Idolatrous cities are not to be spared.
1 IF there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreames, and
gi...
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thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer
of dreams; for the Lord, your God, proveth you, He uses the temptation
of the false teachers to test the genuineness of the believ...
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OF FALSE PROPHETS IN GENERAL...
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JUDGMENT OF FALSE PROPHETS
(vs.1-11)
Just as Paul warned the Ephesian elders that "savage wolves" would
enter in among New Testament believers, and men from among themselves
would teach perverted thi...
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1-5 Moses had cautioned against the peril that might arise from the
Canaanites. Here he cautions against the rise of idolatry among
themselves. It is needful for us to be well acquainted with the tru...
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THOU SHALT NOT HEARKEN UNTO THE WORDS OF THAT PROPHET; not receive his
doctrine, though the sign come to pass. For although when such a sign
or wonder foretold did not _follow_ or come to pass, it was...
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This chapter abounds in most weighty principles. It consists of three
distinct sections, each one of which claims our deep attention. We
must not attempt to weaken the admonitory force of such a scrip...
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CHAPTER 13 WARNINGS AGAINST IDOLATRY AND GUIDANCE ON HOW TO DEAL WITH
THOSE WHO LEAD MEN ASTRAY.
This chapter continues the closing theme in Deuteronomy 12 where
emphasis has been laid on observing th...
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Deuteronomy 13:1
I. If the text teaches us how the true Jewish prophet would speak to
his people, and in what spirit they would hear him, it teaches us who
read him how we are to receive his words. Th...
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CONTENTS: The test of false prophets.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: «Though we or an angel from heaven preach any other
Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
ac...
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Deuteronomy 13:6. _If the son of thy mother entice thee._ Brother and
brethren being often vague words, in this case of spiritual
wickedness, the culprit must be identified. Seduction to idolatry was...
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_Ye are the children of the Lord your God._
ISRAEL’S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD
Moses here tells Israel--
I. How God had dignified them, as a peculiar people, with three
distinguishable privileges, which...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 13:1 Much of OT law is “case
law,” which explains the correct legal response to specific
situations. Here, each situation is introduced with IF (vv....
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 13:3 FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS
TESTING YOU. The Lord uses false prophets to test his people’s
faithfulness. Signs and wonders, when accompanied by false teaching,
are no...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—The true modes and forms of worship have been laid
down, the next step is to legislate against the authors and abettors
of false ones. Such tempters are not to be spared, even though
...
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EXPOSITION
IDOLATERS AND ENTICERS TO IDOLATRY TO BE PUT TO DEATH.
DEUTERONOMY 13:1
The case supposed here is that of one professing to have supernatural
intelligence, who should, by
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Now in chapter thirteen, the warning against false prophets. If a man
comes in and does some kind of a sign or a wonder and he's a dreamer
of dreams or a prophet and he gives some kind of a sign and i...
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1 Corinthians 11:19; 1 John 2:19; 1 John 4:1; 1 John 4:4; 2 Cori
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Thou shalt not hearken to that prophet — Not receive his doctrine,
though the sign come to pass. For although when such a sign or wonder
foretold did not follow or come to pass, it was a sign of a fal...