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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 17:3

The host of heaven Those glorious creatures, which are to be admired as the wonderful works of God, but not to be set up in God's stead. By condemning the most specious of all idolatries, he intimates how absurd a thing it is to worship stocks and stones, the works of men's hands. I have not commanded That is, I have forbidden. Such negative expressions are emphatical.

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See also Deuteronomy 17:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Compare Deuteronomy 13:1 ff. Here special reference is made to the legal forms to be adopted, Deuteronomy 17:5. The sentence was to be carried into effect at “the gates” (compare Genesis 19:1 note)

  • 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

    NOT COMMANDED. Equally authoritative in matters of faith and worship to-day....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _gone and served other gods_ So Deuteronomy 13:6; Deuteronomy 13:13 (7, 14); and 2 (3) with slight variation. _sun, moon_, etc.] See on Deuteronomy 4:19. _which I have not commanded_ Cp....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Against Worshippers of Other Gods If such be found in any of thy gates, and their crime established, they shall be stoned (Deuteronomy 17:2-5); only at the mouth of two witnesses shall any one be put...

  • 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

    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...

  • 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 ...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND HATH GONE AND SERVED OTHER GODS, AND WORSHIPPED THEM, EITHER THE SUN, OR MOON, OR ANY OF THE HOST OF HEAVEN, WHICH I HAVE NOT COMMANDED;_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • 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

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Deuteronomy 17:2. EVERY IDOLATER TO BE STONED. (2) IF THERE BE FOUND... MAN OR WOMAN. — This section differs slightly from the third section of Deuteronomy 13. The penalty there is directed against th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֵּ֗לֶךְ וַֽ יַּעֲבֹד֙ אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים...

  • 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

    And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not (c) commanded; (c) By which he condemns all religion and serving of G...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    The host of heaven. That is, the stars. (Challoner) --- This species of idolatry was the most ancient and common in the East. Job (xxxi. 26, 28) takes notice of the adoration of the sun and of the moo...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe, how tenacious the LORD GOD was of his people's faithfulness, and how exemplary the punishment of idolatry. Oh! that many in the present hour, who are tempting the Israel of GOD by apostacy, w...

  • 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

    AND HATH GONE,.... The Targum of Jonathan adds, after the evil imagination or concupiscence, lusting after other lovers, and forsaking the true God, and departing from his worship: AND SERVED OTHER G...

  • 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

    and hath gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, thus overthrowing the basic precept of the covenant Law, EITHER THE SUN, OR MOON, OR ANY OF THE HOST OF HEAVEN, the worship which was the curse...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY...

  • 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...

  • 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

    Those glorious creatures, which are to be admired as the wonderful works of God, but not to be set up in God's stead, nor worshipped as gods: see JOB 31:26. By condemning the most specious and reasona...

  • 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 17:3 gone H3212 (H8799) served H5647 (H8799) other H312 gods H430 worshiped H7812 (H8691) sun...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ANYONE FOUND WORSHIPPING OTHER GODS WAS TO BE STONED TO DEATH, BUT ONLY AFTER CAREFUL ENQUIRY (DEUTERONOMY 17:2). The reference to the abominations of Asherah, Pillar and blemished offerings leads on...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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 17:2 DOES WHAT IS EVIL. More specifically, commits idolatry. See Deuteronomy 4:19....

  • 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

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 21:3; Deuteronomy 4:19; Ezekiel 8:16; Jeremiah 19:5; J

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The host of heaven — Those glorious creatures, which are to be admired as the wonderful works of God, but not to be set up in God's stead. By condemning the most specious of all idolaters, he intimate...

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