申命記 12:3 JCB

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 12:1-28

Deuteronomy 12:1-Hosea : . The Law of One Sanctuary.— The local sanctuaries (originally Canaanite) with everything belonging to them, are to be destroyed, and all sacrifices are to be offered at the place which Yahweh should choose. Yet ( Deuteronomy 12:15 f.) animals intended for food alone may be killed and eaten locally. Though the name Jerusalem does not occur in D, it is fairly evident that no other place can be intended by “ the place which Yahweh . . . shall choose,” etc., though A.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 12:3

Their pillars, upon which their images were set. The names of them, i.e. all the memorials of them, and the very names given to the places from the idols. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 12:1-32

CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses now begins an exposition of the principal laws which must govern the people in their ecclesiastical, civil, and domestic life in Canaan. The religious life of Israel is described first. In this chapter a place for God’s worship is chosen, and the right method pointed out.Deuteronomy 12:2. Destroy all “places” of idolatory. Hills and elevated spots they imagined were nearer heaven. Green trees and shades of foilage or wood inspired awe.Deuteronomy 12:3. Monuments of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 12:1-32

Chapter 12In chapter twelve he gives the conditions whereby they should enjoy the blessings within the land.First of all they are to utterly destroy all of the places, where there the people that inhabited the land worshipped. They were to destroy all of the groves, all of the high places, all of the altars, all of the gods that they served. Everything was to be utterly obliterated so that they would not have any curiosity or memory of their gods at all.Overthrow their altars, break their... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 12:1-32

Deuteronomy 12:5 . The place which the Lord shall choose. No place is here named; for the Lord was content, and most significantly, to dwell in the tent. He sojourned in the desert; and afterwards removed his abode to Gilgal, to Shiloh, to Nob, and to Jerusalem, which he chose by the falling of fire from heaven. 1 Chronicles 21:26. In all these places he recorded his name; and the people usually looked towards his holy place when they called on his name. Deuteronomy 12:17 . Thou mayest... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Deuteronomy 12:1-3

Deuteronomy 12:1-3If there arise among you a prophet.On the criterion of a false miracleI. The evidence drawn from miracles, in favour of any Divine revelation, rests in general on the testimony of those who saw the miracles performed. But in addition to this, it is important to inquire, whether some consideration may not be at the same time due to the nature and tendency of the doctrines themselves, and whether there may not be in them some internal marks, which, in some cases at least, may... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 12:3

Deu 12:3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. Ver. 3. And ye shall hew down. ] As was here done notably in King Edward VI’s days, notwithstanding the withstandings of the rude rabble, which more regarded commotioners than commissioners, and were more guided by rage than by right, &c. a So that as one Mr Body, a commissioner, was... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 12:3

ye shall: Numbers 33:52, Judges 2:2, 2 Chronicles 31:1 overthrow: Heb. break down and burn: 1 Kings 15:13, 2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 23:14, 2 Chronicles 14:3, 2 Chronicles 19:3, 2 Chronicles 34:3, Jeremiah 17:2, Micah 5:14 and destroy: Exodus 23:13, Psalms 16:4, Hosea 2:17, Zechariah 13:2, Revelation 13:1 Reciprocal: Exodus 23:24 - overthrow Exodus 34:13 - ye shall Deuteronomy 7:5 - destroy Deuteronomy 7:25 - graven Judges 17:3 - a graven image 1 Kings 14:15 - beyond the river 2 Kings 11:18 -... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Deuteronomy 12:3

And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.Pillars — Upon which their images were set.Names — That is, all the memorials of them, and the very names given to the places from the idols. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 12:3

3. Their groves More properly, their images of Asherah. Comp. Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 16:21; also Exodus 34:13. And destroy the names of them This close connexion of names and places is found in Phoenician and Canaanite mythology, which is remarkable for the number of its local divinities: and it helps to explain why Moses, not content with ordering the destruction of the pagan sanctuaries, insisted upon the abolition of the names. The Israelites were to destroy all that might... read more