Deuteronomy 12:23 NIV

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Deuteronomy 12:1-32

8. The Place of Worship CHAPTER 12 1. The overthrow of false worship (Deuteronomy 12:1-4 ) 2. The true place of worship (Deuteronomy 12:5-14 ) 3. Concerning eating and the blood (Deuteronomy 12:15-28 ) 4. Warning against the abominations of idolatry (Deuteronomy 12:29-32 ) The law, and love as the fulfilment of that law, was the main subject of the words of Moses up to the close of the eleventh chapter. The chapters which follow also contain expositions of the different statutes, as... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Deuteronomy 12:23

12:23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood {m} [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.(m) Because the life of beasts is in their blood. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 12:1-32

ONE CENTER OF WORSHIP (vs.1-28) To prepare for proper worship in the land, Israel must utterly destroy those in which the nations before them served their idols. This was commonly done in high places, in mountains and hills and in lovely wooded areas (v.2-3), just as many people today tell us they need no gathering of saints to the name of the Lord Jesus in order to worship, but feel closer to God when they are outside enjoying the beauties of nature. But this kind of worship was to be... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 12:1-32

CONDITIONS OF BLESSING PLACES OF WORSHIP (Deuteronomy 12:0 ) In Canaan, what were the Israelites to destroy and how thoroughly was the work to be done (Deuteronomy 12:1-3 )? What contrast were they to place between themselves and the heathen in public worship (Deuteronomy 12:4-7 )? Did this apply to the same extent in the wilderness, and if not, why not (Deuteronomy 12:8-14 )? What exception was made as to their private and domestic affairs (Deuteronomy 12:15-16 )? What were they not at... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Deuteronomy 12:1-32

Life In a New Land Deuteronomy 12:0 This chapter opens a new section of the Mosaic legislation. Up to this time we have had copious and urgent discourses by Moses upon the law, its principles, and its purposes more or less abstract and philosophical discourses; now we come into practical instruction and exhortation. The people are about to move into new circumstances and to sustain new relations, and Moses condescends to particularise, and seeks by almost tedious detail to impress upon the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Deuteronomy 12:20-28

The same observation meets us here as before, only with this addition, that as from its importance it is again repeated, our attention and regard to it should be but the more increased. If from the renewal of it the LORD JESUS becomes more dear, sweet is the exhortation how often soever repeated, which under GOD'S grace induceth this effect. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 12:23

Soul. See Genesis ix. 4. Blood maintains the life of animals, and it would seem cruel to begin to eat them before they were perfectly dead. But the obligation of this positive law has long ago ceased, as it was intended chiefly for the Jews. read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 12:5-32

5-32 The command to bring ALL the sacrifices to the door of the tabernacle, was now explained with reference to the promised land. As to moral service, then, as now, men might pray and worship every where, as they did in their synagogues. The place which God would choose, is said to be the place where he would put his name. It was to be his habitation, where, as King of Israel, he would be found by all who reverently sought him. Now, under the gospel, we have no temple or altar that sanctifies... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Deuteronomy 12:17-32

Concerning the Care of the Levites, The Eating of Sacrificial Meat, and Idolatry v. 17. Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy free-will offerings, or heave-offering of thine hand, whatever was taken from the possession of the Israelites as a gift to Jehovah; all these could not be consumed in the worshiper's house or in his home town; v. 18. but... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Deuteronomy 12:1-31

Supplementary Exposition of the Third to the Tenth CommandDeuteronomy 12-26The Third Command. (Deuteronomy 12-14)Deuteronomy 12:1-311These are the statutes and judgments which ye shall observe [keep] 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. 2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations [Gentiles] which ye shall possess [expel from the possession]1 served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon... read more