Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 14:2

The foundation of the entire moral and ceremonial law is contained in this and the preceding verse. Israel is the people whom Jehovah has chosen and called His children. As such they must be holy: see intro. to Leviticus 17-26.

3-20. On the law of clean and unclean beasts, see Leviticus 1:1 and notes.

Continues after advertising

See also Deuteronomy 14:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    10. THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND THEIR SEPARATION CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The declaration of relationship: A holy people (Deuteronomy 14:1)_ 2. Their food as a separated people (Deuteronomy 14:3) 3. Concerning...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Heathen customs to be avoided. Deuteronomy 14:1_ f._ Heathen mourning rites. Deuteronomy 14:1. cut yourselves: Leviticus 19:28 *, _cf_....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. the LORD. (Hebrew. _Jehovah._) Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, and Syriac, add "thy God". PECULIAR. as. treasure. S...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For thou art an holy people_, etc.] Almost exactly as Deuteronomy 7:6 (_q.v._). Note also the Sg. address in contrast to the Pl. of the context. This _v_. is, therefore, probably an addition by the h...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    VER. 1-21. God, having chosen Israel for his own, separated them from the nations, adopted them as his children, and designed them for his glory, has a right to expect from them that they should answe...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LESSON ELEVEN DEUTERONOMY 14:1-21 3. ONE HOLY PEOPLE, DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHERS (Deuteronomy 14:1 to Deuteronomy 25:19) a. DISFIGUREMENT FOR THE DEAD FORBIDDEN ...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FOR THOU ART AN HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD, AND THE LORD HATH CHOSEN THEE TO BE A PECULIAR PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF, ABOVE ALL THE NATIONS THAT ARE UPON THE EARTH._ No JFB commentary on this verse...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 14 V1 ‘You are the children of the *LORD your God. When someone dies, do not cut yourselves. Do...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR THOU ART AN HOLY PEOPLE. — This verse is repeated from Deuteronomy 7:6, word for word, except the _“_and,” which is added here. In the former passage, the principle is made the ground for destroyi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י עַ֤ם קָדֹושׁ֙ אַתָּ֔ה לַ יהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֶ֑

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

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

    Continuing, Moses proceeded to give the injunctions which revealed his consciousness of this effect of worship on conduct, warning the people against specific evils and urging them anew to observance...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a (a) peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth. (a) Therefore you should...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    There is a vast deal of gospel in this, and if read under the teaching of the HOLY GHOST; with an eye to the covenant mercies of GOD in CHRIST, it will not fail to bring sweet comfort to the soul. My...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14 AND 15. Chapter 14 forbids that the people, as being the children of the living God, should imitate the profane customs which indicated the devotedness of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THOU ART AN HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD,.... Set apart by him from all other people, and devoted to his worship and service, and many of them were sanctified and made holy in a special and s...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth. Ver. 2. _For thou art._] _See...

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

    _Thou art a holy people_ Since you have the honour to be separated to God as a peculiar people, by laws different from those of all other nations, it behooves you to act suitably to the dignity of you...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Gods children are not to disfigure themselues in mourning. 3 What may, and what may not be eaten, 4 of beasts, 9 of fishes, 11 of foules. 21 That which dieth of it selfe, [MEATS CLEANE.] may...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For thou art an holy people unto the Lord, thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. For this reason the entire life o...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OF UNCLEAN BEASTS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE VAIN SHOW OF MOURNING (vs.1-2) The dignity of Israel's outward relationship to God as sons required them to act with proper dignity. The ungodly nations practiced such things as cutting themselve...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-21 Moses tells the people of Israel how God had given them three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things, with which God has...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chose...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 14:2 holy H6918 people H5971 LORD H3068 God H430 LORD H3068 chosen H977 (H8804) people H5971 treasu

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 14 THE CALL TO WALK WORTHY OF BEING HIS PEOPLE. This chapter covers the need for His people to remember who they were and to walk worthily of Him, and be fit to worship Him and come to the pla...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Dietary laws. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: 1 Timothy 4:3-5. KEY WORD: Eating, Deuteronomy 14:3. STRONG VERSES: Deuteronomy 14:2. Strikin

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 14:1. Ye _shall not cut yourselves for the dead._ Jeremiah mentions the not paying these honours to the dead as a punishment: Jeremiah 16:6. It was once a general custom among the heathen,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _At the end of every seven years. .. a release._ ECONOMICAL LAWS One of the things that strikes a reader of Deuteronomy, and indeed of the Old Testament in general, is the way in which all kinds of s...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 14:1__ Israel’s diet was to be distinctive, showing how the nation itself was different from all other nations (compare Leviticus 11:1)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—The people were not only to suppress idolatry, but their whole life and conduct must be ruled according to their holy character and high calling. They must not, like other nations, dis...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION HEATHEN CUSTOMS OF MOURNING TO BE AVOIDED. NO ABOMINABLE THING TO BE EATEN. MEATS CLEAN AND UNCLEAN. TITHES....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    He said, You are the children of the LORD your God: [chapter fourteen] ye shall not cut yourselves, make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. You are a holy people, and God has chosen thee to...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 2:9; Daniel 12:7; Daniel 8:24; Deuteronomy 26:18; Deute

Continues after advertising