Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Deuteronomy 12:1
CHAPTER XII
All monuments of idolatry in the promised land to be destroyed,
1-3;
and God's service to be duly performed, 4-7.
The difference between the performance of that service in the
wilderness and in the promised land, 8-11.
The people are to be happy in all their religious observances,
12.
The offerings must be brought to the place which God appoints,
and no blood is to be eaten, 13-16.
The tithe of corn, wine, oil, c., to be eaten in the place that
God shall choose, 17, 18.
The Levite must not be forsaken, 19.
All clean beasts may be eaten, but the blood must be poured out
before the Lord, and be eaten on no pretence whatever, 29-25.
Of vows, burnt-offerings, c., 26, 27.
These precepts are to be carefully obeyed, 28.
Cautions against the abominations of the heathen, 29-31.
Nothing to be added to or diminished from the word of God, 32.
NOTES ON CHAP. XII