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Deuteronomy 17:1-20

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 itself exceedingly heinous and the highest affront that can be offered to Almighty God.

Key Word: Transgressing, Deuteronomy 17:2.

Strong Verses: Deuteronomy 17:18; Deuteronomy 17:19; Deuteronomy 17:20.

Striking Facts: Deuteronomy 17:1. Old testaments sacrifices were required to be perfect because types of Christ, 1 Peter 1:19, who was perfectly pure from all sin and all appearances of it.

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See also Deuteronomy 17:1-20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LESSON FOURTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:18-20; DEUTERONOMY 17:2 TO DEUTERONOMY 18:22 e. THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    17:1 sheep (e-12) Or 'goat.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY. CONTROVERSIES TO BE SETTLED BY PRIESTS AND JUDGES. ELECTION AND DUTIES OF A KING 1. Cp. Leviticus 22:17....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹא ־תִזְבַּח֩ לַ יהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ שֹׁ֣ור וָ

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SHEEP: Or, goat...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 17:1 sacrifice H2076 (H8799) LORD H3068 God H430 bull H7794 sheep H7716 blemish H3971 defect H7451

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 17:1 SACRIFICE... BLEMISH. See Leviticus 22:17; Mal

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION SACRIFICES TO BE OF ANIMALS UNBLEMISHED. IDOLATERS TO BE SOUGHT OUT, CONVICTED, AND PUT TO DEATH. THE HIGHER JUDICIAL COURT

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 1:19; Deuteronomy 15:21; Deuteronomy 23:18; Deuteronomy 24:4;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Bullock or sheep — Either greater or smaller sacrifices, all being comprehended under the two most eminent kinds....

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