Deuteronomy 12:32 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. ”

• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Deuteronomy 12:29 to Deuteronomy 13:1 . Yahwism must be kept free from all taint of Canaanite heathenism when Israel has entered Canaan. The danger would arise from the ancient belief that every...

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  What, &c. Close of third address. See note on Deuteronomy 1:1 .

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  32. What thing soever I command. In this brief clause he teaches that no other service of God is lawful, except that of which He has testified His approval in His word, and that obedience is...

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 32. Thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it — See on chap. Deuteronomy 4:2 . One would wonder, says Bishop Patrick, that so learned a man as Maimonides should have laboured to pro...

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Abolition of Idolatrous Places. The Centralisation of Worship. Abstinence from Blood The larger section of the Second Discourse begins here and extends to the end of Deuteronomy 26 . It consi...

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  What thing soever I command you. — No later writer could put these words into the mouth of Moses, if he had altered the precepts of Moses to any appreciable extent.

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  LAWS OF SACRIFICE Deuteronomy 12:1-32 . IT is a characteristic of all the earlier codes of law-the Book of the Covenant, the Deuteronomic Code, and the Law of Holiness-that at the head of the se...

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Having thus repeated the great words of the Law and called the people to obedience, Moses now proceeded to deal with the statutes and judgments, and, first, the statutes. In dealing with these he co...

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I take occasion from this precept to remark, how needful it must be for the heart to be established in grace, that we may not be carried about with diverse and strange doctrines. Alas! if our religio...

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  What thing soever I command you, observe to do it ,.... In the manner it is commanded and directed to; the laws of God, both as to matter and manner, were to be obeyed just as they were delivered: t...

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. Ver. 32. Thou shalt not add thereto. ] To add anything to the Word of God, saith Theodoret, is...

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ONE CENTER OF WORSHIP (vs.1-28) To prepare for proper worship in the land, Israel must utterly destroy those in which the nations before them served their idols. This was commonly done in high pl...

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Where Sacrifices Must Be Offered; Ceremonial Observances; Cautions Against Idolatrous Rites. B. C. 1451....

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .—Moses now begins an exposition of the principal laws which must govern the people in their ecclesiastical, civil, and domestic life in Canaan. The religious life of Israel is descri...

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Deuteronomy 12:5 . The place which the Lord shall choose. No place is here named; for the Lord was content, and most significantly, to dwell in the tent. He sojourned in the desert; and afterwards...

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION ANNOUNCEMENT OF PARTICULAR LAWS . CHAPTERS 12-26. Moses, having in his first address cast a glance at the events which had transpired between Sinai and the plains of Moab, a...

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Concerning the Care of the Levites, The Eating of Sacrificial Meat, and Idolatry

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• Deuteronomy 12:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 13:18 ; Deuteronomy 4:2 ; Joshua 1:7 ; Matthew 28:20 ; Proverbs 30:6 ; Revelation 22:18 ; Revelation 22:19

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