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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 18:13

Perfect - As in Genesis 17:1; Job 1:1; Matthew 5:48. The sense is that Israel was to keep the worship of the true God wholly uncontaminated by idolatrous pollutions. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 18:10

Deuteronomy 18:10. That maketh his son or daughter pass through the fire By a superstitious dedicating, or a cruel sacrificing of them, see on Leviticus 18:21. That useth divination Of which there were many sorts, as is implied in the original expressions here: קסם קסמים , kosem kesamim, divining divinations, or with divinations. The meaning undoubtedly is, That seeketh to know or foretel things secret, or to come, by unlawful arts and practices. An observer of times Superstitiously... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 18:11

Deuteronomy 18:11. Or a charmer One that charmeth serpents or other creatures. Or rather, as the Hebrew חבר חבר , chober chaber, seems to mean, an astrologer, or such as, by the conjunction of the planets, pretended to foretel the events of men’s lives, or other future things. It must be observed that the eastern people were much addicted to divination of all kinds, and undertook no enterprise of importance without consulting their soothsayers; and therefore Moses uses these sundry... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 18:13-14

Deuteronomy 18:13-14. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God Sincerely and wholly his, seeking him and cleaving to him, and to his word alone, and therefore abhorring all commerce and conversations with devils. Hath not suffered thee so to do Hath not suffered thee to follow these superstitious and diabolical practices, as he hath suffered other nations to do, but hath instructed thee better by his word and Spirit, and will more fully instruct thee by a great Prophet. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:1-22

Spiritual guides, good and bad (18:1-22)Further information is given concerning the support of priests (18:1-5; see notes on Numbers 18:8-20). If a Levite from the country sold his local possessions to move to the central place of worship, he could retain the money from the sale of his goods and still be financially supported by the people, the same as other Levites (6-8; see notes on Numbers 18:21-32).Israel’s law prohibited all forms of witchcraft and magic, whether cruel practices in which... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 18:10

or. Note the Figure of speech Paradiastole. App-6 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 18:11

familiar spirits. See note on Leviticus 19:31 . necromancer = a seeker unto the dead; a medium. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 18:12

the LORD (Hebrew. Jehovah. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, add "thy God". read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 18:13

perfect = devoted, or single-hearted. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 18:10

Ver. 10. Or that useth divination— The Hebrew is קסמים קסם kesem kesamim, divining divinations; which may signify, either divination by lots, after the manner of the sortes Praenestinae, sortes Dodoneae, and others among the Greeks and Romans, or divination by arrows, the ancient βελομαντεια, of which see Ezekiel 21:22. The manner of it was, by inscribing upon several arrows the names of the cities which they were to attack, and, after mixing of the arrows together, one was drawn at a venture,... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 18:13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 18:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 18:11

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 18:13-14

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:1-22

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 18:10

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 18:11

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 18:12

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 18:13

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 18:10

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