Deuteronomy 13:11; Deuteronomy 19:20; Numbers 15:30; Numbers 15:31
The cases in question are such as the inferior judges did not feel able to decide satisfactorily, and which accordingly they remitted to their supe...
Deuteronomy 16:21 - Deuteronomy 17:7 . Laws Demanding Pure Worship and Suitable Sacrifices. This breaks the connexion; its proper place is prob...
A central tribunal to be established (at Jerusalem) to try cases too hard for the local courts ( Deuteronomy 16:18-20 ); see Deuteronomy 1:9-18 *....
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 punish...
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...
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 sente...
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 wors...
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,...
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...
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...
RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT (This Continues the subject of) (chap.16:13 to 17:11) This continues the subject of righteous government. The guilt of offe...
The Authority of the Judges. B. C. 1451. ...
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...
CRITICAL REMARKS .—Israel not only had tendency to idolatry, but inclination to offer animals with faults and to transgress the laws of worship. Bl...
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 s...
Thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. Heathen abominations avoided One reason to shun the practices of idolatry s...
EXPOSITION SACRIFICES TO BE OF ANIMALS UNBLEMISHED . IDOLATERS TO BE SOUGHT OUT , CONVICTED , AND PUT TO DEATH . TH...
Difficult Questions to be Decided by the Priest
And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously, be deterred from choosing a similar insolent course. Christian pastors should...
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,...
13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.