“ Thou shalt be perfecta with the LORD thy God. ”
Perfect - As in Genesis 17:1 ; Job 1:1 ; Matthew 5:48 . The sense is that Israel was to keep the worship of the true God wholly uncontaminated by idolatrous pollutions.
Thou shalt be (f) perfect with the LORD thy God. (f) Without hypocrisy or mixture or false religion.
Concerning the Prophet. The Israelites are to consult Yahweh through His accredited messenger the prophet, and not through diviners who seek oracles by heathen methods. There is no parallel law in...
perfect . devoted, or single-hearted.
13. Thou shalt be perfect. He refers to the mutual obligation of that holy covenant whereby as on the one side He had pledged Himself to the Jews, so on the other He had made them His debtor...
DISCOURSE: 212 CHRISTIAN PERFECTION Deuteronomy 18:13 . Thou shall be perfect with the Lord thy God. IT seems strange that any who have ever heard of Jehovah, should need to be put on their gu...
Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. No JFB commentary on these verses.
The Priestly Dues. Character and Work of the True Prophet 1-8. The Priestly dues: see on Numbers 18 .
(9-14) Certain forms of idolatry to be avoided, especially unlawful means of communication with the unseen world.
SPEAKERS FOR GOD - III. THE PROPHET Deuteronomy 18:9-22 . THE third of the Divine voices to this nation was the prophet. Just as in the other Semitic nations round about Israel there were kings...
the Prophet Who Was to Come Deuteronomy 18:1-22 Those that serve the altar may live by the altar. Let us not forget the needs of those who serve us in holy things. It is a blessed thing when an...
In dealing with the priest who was already found among the people by the appointment of God, the fact that he was to have no inheritance in the land was restated. Then a special provision was made fo...
It is wonderful to observe, how much Moses was led to speak to the people against the idolatry of the neighboring nations around them. As if the LORD meant to convey by the frequency of his precepts...
Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. Sincerely serve and worship him, faithfully adhere to his word, laws, statutes, and ordinances, and walk uprightly before him.
Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. Ver. 13. Thou shalt be perfect. ] See Trapp on " Mat 5:48 " In the original there is a bigger tau than ordinary in the word Tamim, rendered per...
Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God Sincerely and wholly his, seeking him and cleaving to him, and to his word alone, and therefore abhorring all commerce and conversations with devils. Ha...
PRIESTS AND LEVITES: THEIR DUE (vs.1-8) The proper support of the priests and Levites is again insisted on. Since they were given no inheritance in the land, and were separated to care for the in...
Idolatrous Customs of the Canaanites. B. C. 1451. 9 When thou art come into the land w...
Sincerely and wholly his, seeking him and cleaving to him and to his word alone, and therefore abhorring all commerce and conversations with devils or their agents, such as were now mentioned.
Association With The Occult Is Banned ( Deuteronomy 18:9-14 ). The nations in the land into which they were about to enter practised all kinds of abominations, things that were hateful to Yahweh....
CRITICAL NOTES .—After speaking of the rulers of the people, Moses now mentions the teachers priests, Levites, and prophets; and what their privileges and position must be in their settlement in Can...
Deuteronomy 18:1 . They shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire. The sin- offerings, except the skin and the fat, which were burnt on the altar. The ecclesiastics having relinquished the...
EXPOSITION RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES . THE ARTS OF DIVINATION OF THE HEATHEN TO BE AVOIDED . PROPHETS PROMISED WHOM ISRAEL MUST HEAR . THE...
Warning Against Heathen Abominations
Genesis 17:1 ; Genesis 6:9 ; Job 1:1 ; Job 1:8 ; Matthew 5:48 ; Philippians 3:12 ; Philippians 3:15 ; Psalms 37:37 ; Revelation 3:2
Perfect — Sincerely and wholly his, seeking him and cleaving to him and to his word alone, and therefore abhorring all commerce and conversations with devils.