申命記 12:4-7 JCB

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 12:4

i. e., “The idolaters set up their altars and images on any high hill, and under every green tree at their pleasure, but ye shall not do so; the Lord Himself shall determine the spot for your worship, and there only shall ye seek Him.” The religion of the Canaanites was human; its modes of worship were of man’s devising. It fixed its holy places on the hills in the vain thought of being nearer heaven, or in deep groves where the silence and gloom might overawe the worshipper. But such... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 12:5

“To put his name there” means to manifest to men His divine presence. The Targumists rightly refer to the Shechinah; but the expression comprehends all the various modes in which God vouchsafed to reveal Himself and His attributes to men.The purpose of the command of the text is to secure the unity, and through unity the purity of the worship of God. That there should be one national center for the religion of the people was obviously essential to the great ends of the whole dispensation.... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 12:6

Some have objected that this command cannot possibly have been ever carried out, at all events until in later (lays the territory which owned obedience to it was narrowed to the little kingdom of Judah. But in these and in other precepts Moses doubtless takes much for granted. He is here, as elsewhere, regulating and defining more precisely institutions which had long been in existence, as to many details of which custom superseded the necessity of specific enactment. No doubt the people well... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 12:7

An injunction that the feasts which accompanied certain offerings (not specified) were to be also held in the same place. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 12:5

Deuteronomy 12:5. 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. There is not one precept in all the law of Moses so largely inculcated as this, to bring all their sacrifices to that one altar. And how significant was this appointment! They must keep to one place, in token of their belief, that there is... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 12:6

Deuteronomy 12:6. Thither bring your burnt-offerings Which were wisely appropriated to that one place, for the security of the true religion, and for the prevention of idolatry and superstition, which might otherwise more easily have crept in; and to signify that their sacrifices were not accepted for their own worth, but by God’s gracious appointment, and for the sake of God’s altar, by which they were sanctified, and for the sake of Christ, whom the altar manifestly represented. Your... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 12:7

Deuteronomy 12:7. There Not in the tabernacle or temple, where only the priests might eat the most holy things, (Numbers 18:10,) but in the court of the tabernacle, or in some place adjacent to the sanctuary. Ye shall eat Your part of the things mentioned Deuteronomy 12:6; before the Lord In the place of his peculiar presence, where his sanctuary shall be. And ye shall rejoice For God is to be served with delight and gladness, and his worship ought to be a source of consolation to... 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