Biblical Commentary Deuteronomy 34:1-12 COMMENTARY: THE CONTEXT: The broad context for this story is the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, which together tell the story of Moses and the leadership role assigned to him by Yahweh. Deeper Commentary . As to moral service, then, as now, men might pray and worship every where, as they did in their synagogues. Once make up your mind to this most certain truth, that what is right in God’s eyes is far better for you than what is right in your own eyes, and you will have but one care in the whole world, i.e. So that it appears that both the law and the Gospel, both Moses and Jesus Christ, consider it a great blessing, a great increase of comfort and happiness, to be kept under strict rules. ad Yad Chazakah. It illustrates the necessity for a repetition of very much of the Sinaitic legislation, and suggests the reason why some parts are so urgently reiterated and impressed, while others are left unnoticed. )The place of God's service to be kept. Deuteronomy is therefore a book of reminding and a book of preparation. We settle the matter nominally between God and our consciences, but really between ourselves and our own wayward and corrupt wills. These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe--Having in the preceding chapter inculcated upon the Israelites the general obligation to fear and love God, Moses here enters into a detail of some special duties they were to practise on their obtaining possession of the promised land. The “rest and safety” of Canaan is significantly laid down Deuteronomy 12:10-11 as the indispensable condition and basis for an entire fulfillment of the Law: the perfection of righteousness coinciding thus with the cessation of wanderings, dangers, and toils. Thou shall not eat it, that it may be well with thee, and with thy children after thee,.... That they and their posterity might be spared, and continue long, and enjoy much prosperity; for those that eat blood, contrary to this command of God, it is threatened that he would set his face against them, and they should be cut off, Leviticus 7:27. when thou shall do that which is right in the sight of the Lord; not only observe this command, but all others. To do that which is right in our own eyes is too often to do that which is abominable in the sight of God. Restraint is irksome to us. Deuteronomy 12 Commentary, this commentary, once the most popular commentary, is favored by Christians of many denominations The priests and the Levites, what was their portion, so Aben Ezra; but the people also are included, and by what follows seem chiefly designed, who were to eat their part of the sacrifices, particularly of the tithes and peace offerings, in the holy place that should be chosen and appointed; see Deuteronomy 14:22. and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto; in all the labours of their hands, and what they got thereby, which they were cheerfully to enjoy, and express their thankfulness for it in this way; see Ecclesiastes 5:18. ye and your households; their wives, sons, daughters, men and maid servants; yea, with them Levites, strangers, fatherless, and widows, were to partake of some of their freewill offerings, Deuteronomy 16:10. wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee; and these offerings were eucharistical, and by way of thanksgiving for the blessing of God upon their labours, for it is that which maketh rich, Proverbs 10:22. Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:12-22 (Read Deuteronomy 10:12-22) We are here taught our duty to God in our principles and our practices. Deuteronomy 12:1-14. But many other parts of the ceremonial law, seem not to have been in force till the Hebrews crossed the Jordan, Amos v. 25. These are strong warnings! The uniformity of human character. 3. c. 45. p. 475. gives three reasons for it; he says there are three great mysteries why the place is not clearly, but obscurely mentioned;1) lest the Gentiles should seize upon it, and make war for the sake of it, supposing this place to be the end of the law; 2) lest they in whose hands the place then was should by all means waste and destroy it; 3) which is the chief, lest every tribe should desire to have it in its own lot and jurisdiction; and so strifes might arise among them on account of it, as happened to the priesthood: even unto his habitation shall ye seek; the temple at Jerusalem is meant, where the Lord took up his dwelling, and whither men were to come and seek unto him by prayer and supplication for whatsoever they needed, and to inquire of him in matters doubtful, and they wanted counsel in: and thither thou shall come: with sacrifices of every sort, where they were to be slain and offered to the Lord, and become acceptable to him, as is more largely declared in the following part of this chapter. How very commonly does it happen that the very condition people chose beforehand, the very place they wished to live in, and the persons they wished to live among, being obtained, becomes the ground of continual complaint and vexation. Read Deuteronomy 12 commentary using Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete). Canaan was a place where men could not do what pleased themselves so much as they could in the wilderness: and it was the more entirely and truly a place of rest. how to please God in making the best use of the present time, a care in which, by His gracious assistance, you are sure not to fail. But unto the place which the Lord your God, shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your vows and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks, And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee, Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes, and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you, and dwell in the land which the Lord your God giveth you to inherit, he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, which the Lord your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offerings of your hands, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord, And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you, Take heed to thyself, that thou offer not thy burnt offerings, But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there shalt thou do all that I command thee, Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee, the clean and the unclean may eat thereof, ye shall pour it out upon the earth as water, Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flocks, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, But thou must eat them before the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God in all that thou puttest thine hand unto, Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite, When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his name be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the Lord hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike, and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh, thou shall pour it upon the earth as water, Thou shall not eat it, that it may be well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shall do that which is right in the sight of the Lord, and thy vows thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the Lord shall choose, And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the Lord thy God, shall be poured out upon the altar of the Lord thy God, Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God, When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land, Take heed to thyself, that thou be not snared by following them, and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, how did these nations serve their gods, Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God, for every abomination which he hateth have they done unto their gods, for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods, What thing soever I command you, observe to do it. Verse 5 has "for his dwelling" (BDB 1015), while Deut. sect. As they prepared to go into possess the land, . During their wanderings there were doubtless times when the tabernacle was not set up for days together, and when the daily sacrifice Numbers 28:3, together with many other ordinances, were necessarily omitted (compare Joshua 5:5). In the place chosen and fixed, where a temple would be built for him, and he would take up his residence; eating with joy and gladness that part of the offerings which belonged to them, keeping as it were a feast before the Lord, in token of gratitude for what they had received from him: ye and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants; which explains what is meant by their household, Deuteronomy 12:7 wives are not mentioned, because it could not be thought they would eat and rejoice, or keep such a feast, without them, and therefore needless to name them: and the Levite that is within your gates; such also were to partake of this entertainment, who were useful in instructing their families in the knowledge of divine things, and serviceable to them on many accounts in the worship of God: forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you; in the division of the land, and so having nothing to manure and cultivate, was destitute of the fruits of the earth, and could make no improvement and increase of his substance, as they could. Meilah, c. 4. sect. We have several proofs of this, particularly the total neglect of circumcision during the whole space of the forty years in the wilderness, though it had been carefully observed in Egypt: but that, in all the parts of their conduct, they were left every man to do what was right in his own eyes, is sufficiently contradicted from the former part of this history. What were the Israelites doing in the wilderness? The blessing, of which it is now proposed to speak more particularly, is that of being more under control--of having our lives and ways more exactly ordered- … Outline of Deuteronomy 12 Monuments of idolatry to be destroyed. What is most agreeable to our feelings, we easily persuade ourselves, is most profitable to our souls; and where we are most profited, where we “get most good,” as it is called, there we feel sure it is God’s will that we should go. Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God. “For none of us liveth to himself,” etc. The land of Canaan, which was typical of the rest which remains for the people of God in heaven; for though they now enter into a spiritual rest in Christ, they are not yet come to their eternal rest; they are in a world of trouble, through sin, Satan, and wicked men; but they shall come to it, as Israel did to Canaan; for God has promised and prepared it, and it remains for them; Christ prayed for it, is also gone to prepare it, and the Spirit is the seal and earnest of it, and works up the saints, and makes them meet for it: and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you; and the land of Canaan being an inheritance, and the gift of God, was also a type of the heavenly inheritance; which saints are now born unto, and have both a right unto, and meetness for, through the righteousness of Christ, and grace of God; but as yet are not entered on it, but that is reserved for them in heaven, and they are preserved and kept for that; and ere long shall inherit it, as the free gift of God their Father to them, and which is peculiar to them as children. Still, “these things ought not so to be.” Wrong can never be right. A Christian has a higher vocation: to make the world better; to season it with the salt of a pure and uncorrupt conversation; to set an example of that self-denying, self-sacrificing spirit which leads to conduct the very opposite of that described in the text. "In patriarchal times, when a succession of altars was built in the course of the patriarchs' journeyings, there was apparently but one central family altar at any given time. (Plain Sermons by Contributors to “Tracts for the Times. Even in the matter of the important rite of circumcision there had been a non-observance for years. The Christian must be continually reminding both himself and others that what we are all doing here this day may be excused by considerations arising out of the frailty of human nature, but can never be justified. Deuteronomy 12:16. The blessing, of which it is now proposed to speak more particularly, is that of being more under control--of having our lives and ways more exactly ordered--than as if we were not Christians. We have all done amiss, and we must all try to do better; and so prepare ourselves for that entirely altered state of circumstances which awaits us as soon as we have crossed the narrow dividing stream; you of Jordan, I of death. A verse by verse commentary on DEUTERONOMY 12 dealing with God's demand that they destroy all the idols and objects of worship in the land they are entering. Some confine this to the sacrifices, which each person might offer, where he thought proper, till the ark was fixed at Silo. And if even the bitter thought of our past sins may be accompanied with so much of what is comfortable and hopeful, surely we may well leave it to Almighty God to do what He will with us in every other respect. See Joshua 5:5. Deuteronomy 12:5. (Deuteronomy 30:19) iii. (2 Peter 1:12) e. There is no sentiment so just as not to be liable to perversion and abuse. 7,9. , who also observesF1Ibid. We must love him, and delight in communion with him. The Targum of Jonathan renders the word "abominations", meaning idols; and so Jarchi interprets it by a tree that is worshipped; See Gill on Deuteronomy 7:5. and you shall hew down the graven images of their gods; which were made of wood: and destroy the names of them out of the place; by never making any mention of them in common discourse, and by changing the names of places called from them; and especially by destroying all the relics of them, and whatever appertained to them, which might lead to the mention of them; see Hosea 2:17. Deuteronomy 12:1. Deuteronomy 12:29 "Be careful to listen to all these words which I command you, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you forever, for you will be doing what is … Deuteronomy Chapter 1 2. 35:23. These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth. Deuteronomy 12:1. “Every man whatsoever was right in his own eyes.” This is human nature. We are now come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord our God was so long preparing for us, and therefore we are no longer to think of doing every man what is right in his own eyes. Here — Where the inconveniency of the place, and the uncertainty of our abode, would not permit exact order in sacrifices and feasts and ceremonies, which therefore God was then pleased to dispense with; but, saith he, he will not do so there. even so will I do likewise; or however, if this was not determined on when the inquiries were made, there was danger that this would be the result of them, and therefore the caution is given. Fixed and settled, and will be known to be the place: which the Lord your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there: where he himself would dwell, and where his name would be called, and he would be worshipped: thither shall ye bring all that I command you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offerings of your hands; of which See Gill on Deuteronomy 12:6. and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord; or, "the choice of your vows"F7מבחר נדריכם εκλεκτον των δωρων υμων, Sept. "optima votorum vestrorum", Fagius. Deuteronomy 12:27. Deuteronomy 12:32. And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings,.... For the daily sacrifice, and upon any other account whatsoever; this was before ordered to be brought to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and now to the place where that should be fixed, Leviticus 17:8. and your sacrifices: all other distinct from burnt offerings, as sin offerings, trespass offerings, and peace offerings, especially the latter. Is this all that is required of us--to contend against the evil of our own hearts, and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world? Deuteronomy 12. In fact, God himself made the change to Jerusalem through His prophet David. IV. Take heed to thyself, that thou be not snared by following them,.... Their examples and customs, and so be drawn into the same idolatrous practices; see Psalm 106:35, after that they be destroyed from before thee; for their idolatries and other sins: and that thou inquire not after their gods; what they were, their names, forms, and figures: saying, how did these nations serve their gods? These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. To put his name there — That is, to set up his worship there, and which he shall call by his name, as his house, or his dwelling-place; namely, where the ark should be, the tabernacle, or temple: which was first Shiloh, and then Jerusalem. That we do here — Where the inconvenience of the place, and the uncertainty of their abode, would not permit exact order in sacrifices, and feasts, and ceremonies, which therefore God was then pleased to dispense with; but, saith he, he will not do so there. Commentaries for Deuteronomy Chapter 12 Monuments of idolatry to be destroyed. Deuteronomy 12 Commentary, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this volume commentary on the Bible is highly regarded for his very prudent and judicious expositions The place of God's service to be kept. 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: Jarchi and Ben Melech by the "rest" understand Shiloh, and by the inheritance Jerusalem; so in the MisnahF6Zebachim, c. 14. sect. Ver. Click the verse number to read commentary, definitions, meanings, and notesfor that particular Deuteronomy 12 verse. Of the Phoenicians Porphyry saysF9De Abstinentia, l. 2. sect. What a beautiful and comfortable thought is this, of the high and noble uses to which, if we will, we may turn all our worst disappointments--the bitterest thoughts of shame and remorse which ever come upon us. Avodah Zarah, c. 3. sect. In whatever counsel and pursuit we are sure we are guided by God, that, we are equally sure, must turn out well in the end; and soberly speaking, what can we wish for more? Thus we find blasphemy, and a violation of the sabbath, punished, Lev. Commentary on Deuteronomy 12:5-32 (Read Deuteronomy 12:5-32) The command to bring ALL the sacrifices to the door of the tabernacle, was now explained with reference to the promised land. The Gospel was more strict than the law; and on that very account its subjects were happier. Which were not only clean creatures, as before observed, but were commonly and frequently eaten, there being plenty of them in those parts: so thou shalt eat them; their oxen and calves, their sheep and lambs, their goats and their kids: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike; no difference being to be made on that account, with respect to common food; See Gill on Deuteronomy 12:15 which all alike might partake of, notwithstanding any ceremonial uncleanness that any might be attended with. We shall behold His works and ways, especially the glory which He has given to His beloved Son our Saviour, and shall rejoice in them as in so much good done to ourselves, more and more thankfully forever. But hereafter they are not to do every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes. To bear and to forbear is no small part of our trial. Take heed to thyself, that thou offer not thy burnt offerings,.... And so any other, this is put for all the rest: in every place that thou seest; which might take with their fancy, seem pleasant, and so a proper and suitable place to sacrifice in, as on high places, and under green trees; but they were not to indulge their own fancies and imaginations, or follow the customs of others, but keep to the rules prescribed them by the Lord, and to the place fixed by him for his worship. Study the bible online using commentary on Deuteronomy 12 and more! Here the freedom of our will is not interfered with by the claims of family or the obligations of society. Deuteronomy 12 Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible. Himself. Sin must always be protested against. Deuteronomy 12 Commentary, this verse-by-verse commentary contain gems of information found nowhere outside the ancient Jewish writings Neither with the flesh, nor separately: thou shall pour it upon the earth as water; as the blood of sacrifices was poured upon the altar, the blood of common flesh was to be poured upon the earth, signifying it was not to be used, and no account to be made of it; See Gill on Deuteronomy 12:16. Each of us must walk in the light we have. The necessary imperfection of our present state of being. Only ye shall not eat the blood,.... All manner of blood being forbidden, of fowl or of beasts, whether slain for sacrifice or for common food: ye shall pour it out upon the earth as water; which cannot be gathered up again for use, but is swallowed up in the earth. )Commentary Read Deuteronomy 12:1-4 Verse 1-4 — Moses comes to the statutes he had to give in charge to Israel; and begins with such as relate to the worship of God. When it pleased God to promulgate the Fourth Commandment, by that very act He made it a right thing to keep holy the seventh day, and a wrong thing to do our ordinary work thereon, in the eyes of every man who believes in the existence and attributes of the Creator of the world. Deuteronomy 12. ; see 1 Chronicles 23:25 the Targum of Jonathan is,"ye are not come to the house of the sanctuary, which is the house of rest, and to the inheritance of the land.'. & in Misn. This is a study guide commentary which means that you are responsible for your own interpretation of the Bible. It will encourage us under our moral failings and imperfections. He is as fond of having his own way, of doing what is right in his own eyes, as any of you. Chapter 12 . 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