“ And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. ”
The cases in question are such as the inferior judges did not feel able to decide satisfactorily, and which accordingly they remitted to their superiors (compare Exodus 18:23-27 ). The Supreme c...
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....
13. And all the people. He shews from the object of the enactment why the proud despisers (of the priests) were not to be spared; for punishments have reference to common example, whilst, on...
And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
Ver. 13. And all the people shall hear, &c.— This punishment was inflicted for an example and severe warning to those who were yet innocent; as Seneca observes, nemo prudens punit quia pec...
And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: No JFB commentary on these ve...
The Punishment of Idolatry. Controversies to be Settled by Priests and Judges. Election and Duties of a King 1. Cp. Leviticus 22:17-25 .
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 suc...
The apostle Paul from the case of the presumptuous man here noticed, takes occasion to draw a very striking inference in his Epistle to the Hebrews, in those who tread underfoot the SON of GOD, and c...
And all the people shall hear, and fear ,.... All the people of Israel in their own cities, and particularly the judges in those cities; they shall hear of what is done to the obstinate and disobedi...
When thou shalt say, I will set a king over me He only foresees and foretels what they would do, but does not hereby signify that he should approve of it. Yea, when they did this thing, for the ver...
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...
The Authority of the Judges. B. C. 1451. 8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee i...
No text from Poole on this verse.
The Place Of Final Appeal ( Deuteronomy 17:8-15 ). But if a case was brought which was too hard for the local justices to decide, there was to be a final place of appeal made up of the levitical...
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...
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 matte...
Thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. Heathen abominations avoided One reason to shun the practices of idolatry springs from the nature of the evils themselves....
EXPOSITION SACRIFICES TO BE OF ANIMALS UNBLEMISHED . IDOLATERS TO BE SOUGHT OUT , CONVICTED , AND PUT TO DEATH . THE HIGHER JUDICIAL COURT AT THE SANCTUA...
Difficult Questions to be Decided by the Priest
Deuteronomy 13:11 ; Deuteronomy 19:20 ; Numbers 15:30 ; Numbers 15:31
When thou shalt — He only foresees and foretells what they would do, but doth not approve of it. Yea when they did this thing for this very reason, he declares his utter dislike of it, 1 Samuel 8:...