Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 12:21
If the place ... - Rather, “Because, or since, the place will be too far from thee.” The permission given in Deuteronomy 12:15-16 is repeated, and the reason of it assigned. read more
申命記 12:20-21 Jcb
Albert Barnes
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 12:20-21
Deuteronomy 12:20-21. Enlarge thy border Which will make it impossible to bring all the cattle thou usest to the tabernacle. If the place be too far Being obliged to carry their sacrifices to the place of worship, they might think themselves obliged to carry their other cattle thither to be killed. They are therefore released from all such obligations, and left at liberty to kill them at home whether they lived nearer that place, or farther from it; only the latter is here mentioned, as... read more
Donald C. Fleming
Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 12:1-28
12:1-26:19 DETAILED REGULATIONSIn keeping with the pattern of ancient covenant documents, the basic requirements and principles of the covenant (Chapters 5-11) are now followed by the detailed regulations (Chapters 12-26). However, Moses does not lay down these requirements with the harshness or impersonality of a formal law code. He announces them rather in the pastoral spirit of a preacher, appealing to God’s covenant family to respond to God’s grace with lives of loyalty to him and justice... read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 12:20
as = according as. thy soul = thyself. Hebrew. nephesh . read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 12:21
kill = kill in sacrifice. App-43 . Compare 1 Samuel 16:5 ("sacrifice"). read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Deuteronomy 12:20
"When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul. If the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which Jehovah hath given thee, as I have commanded thee; and thou mayest eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul. Even as the... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 12:21
Ver. 21. If the place— Because the place: Houb. כי ki, says he, should be rendered quia or quippe cum. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 12:1-31
1. Laws arising from the first commandment 12:1-31The first commandment is, "You shall have no other gods before me" (Deuteronomy 5:7). The legislation that follows deals with worshipping Yahweh exclusively. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 12:15-28
Regulations concerning blood 12:15-28 read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 12:21-23
If the place.; be too far from thee ; this supplies the reason for the alteration of the law in Le Deuteronomy 17:3 . Only be sure; literally, only be strong ; i . e . be firm and resolute, steadfastly resisting the temptation to eat it. The blood is the life (cf. Genesis 9:4 ; Le Genesis 11:1 ; Genesis 17:11 ). The word used is nephesh ( נֶפֶשׁ ). By this word the Hebrews designated the animal life-principle in men and in beasts; and as without this the body was a mere... read more