Deuteronomy 17:1-20
THE PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY. CONTROVERSIES TO BE SETTLED BY PRIESTS AND JUDGES. ELECTION AND DUTIES OF A KING 1. Cp. Leviticus 22:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PUNISHMENT OF IDOLATRY. CONTROVERSIES TO BE SETTLED BY PRIESTS AND JUDGES. ELECTION AND DUTIES OF A KING 1. Cp. Leviticus 22:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
WICKEDNESS] idolatry, as in Deuteronomy 4:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO THY GATES] see on Genesis 19:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HANDS OF THE WITNESSES] This regulation, by throwing the responsibility of the execution upon the witnesses, would act as a safeguard against false evidence: see on Leviticus 24:14. 8-13. Difficult cases are to be referred to a supreme court of judicature, consisting of the priests and the chie... [ Continue Reading ]
INFORM THEE] rather, 'direct thee.' The common Heb. word for 'law' is derived from this verb and means really 'direction.' 14-20. The Law of the Kingdom. It is to be observed that the people are not commanded to appoint a king, as in the case of the judges (Deuteronomy 16:18). But the desire for a... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKE AS ALL THE NATIONS] cp. the actual words of the people in 1 Samuel 8:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not a stranger] i.e. a foreigner, a non-Israelite: because Israel is the peculiar people of Jehovah. The Jews were always intolerant of foreign authority: cp. Matthew 22:17. Messiah when He came was to rid them of the foreign yoke: see Acts 1:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT MULTIPLY HORSES] The horse is here forbidden, not as an article of luxury but as an instrument of warfare, in which the kings of Israel are not to trust: cp. Psalms 20:7; Psalms 33:16; Psalms 147:10. Canaan was not suitable for cavalry, and the conquest of the country was effected by infantry, w... [ Continue Reading ]
Solomon transgressed this commandment with precisely the result here fore-told: 1 Kings 11:1, and cp. Nehemiah 13:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
A COPY OF THIS LAW] i.e. not merely the law of the kingdom contained in Deuteronomy 17:14, but the entire Deuteronomio law which is in the custody of the priests: see on Deuteronomy 31:9; Deuteronomy 31:24. At the coronation of Josiah the 'testimony' was put into his hands (2 Chronicles 23:11); and... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HIS CHILDREN] an indication that a hereditary dynasty is not inconsistent with divine choice.... [ Continue Reading ]