Chapter 17:
| Darby
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| Matthew Henry
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Numbers Joshua
Deuteronomy 17
Concise Complete
All sacrifices to be perfect, Idolaters must be
slain. (1-7) Difficult controversies. (8-13) The choice of a king, His duties.
(14-20)
Verses 1-7 No
creature which had any blemish was to be offered in sacrifice to God. We are
thus called to remember the perfect, pure, and spotless sacrifice of Christ, and
reminded to serve God with the best of our abilities, time, and possession, or
our pretended obedience will be hateful to him. So great a punishment as death,
so remarkable a death as stoning, must be inflicted on the Jewish idolater. Let
all who in our day set up idols in their hearts, remember how God punished this
crime in Israel.
Verses 8-13
Courts of judgment were to be set up in every city. Though their judgment had
not the Divine authority of an oracle, it was the judgment of wise, prudent,
experienced men, and had the advantage of a Divine promise.
Verses
14-20 God himself was in a particular manner Israel's King; and if they set
another over them, it was necessary that he should choose the person.
Accordingly, when the people desired a king, they applied to Samuel, a prophet
of the Lord. In all cases, God's choice, if we can but know it, should direct,
determine, and overrule ours. Laws are given for the prince that should be
elected. He must carefully avoid every thing that would turn him from God and
religion. Riches, honours, and pleasures, are three great hinderances of
godliness, (the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eye, and the pride of
life,) especially to those in high stations; against these the king is here
warned. The king must carefully study the law of God, and make that his rule;
and having a copy of the Scriptures of his own writing, must read therein all
the days of his life. It is not enough to have Bibles, but we must use them, use
them daily, as long as we live. Christ's scholars never learn above their
Bibles, but will have constant occasion for them, till they come to that world
where knowledge and love will be made perfect. The king's writing and reading
were as nothing, if he did not practise what he wrote and read. And those who
fear God and keep his commandments, will fare the better for it even in this
world.
Chapter 17:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Numbers Joshua
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