신명기 18:6-18 KRV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:1-8

Magistracy and ministry are two divine institutions of admirable use for the support and advancement of the kingdom of God among men. Laws concerning the former we had in the close of the foregoing chapter, directions are in this given concerning the latter. Land-marks are here set between the estates of the priests and those of the people. I. Care is taken that the priests entangle not themselves with the affairs of this life, nor enrich themselves with the wealth of this world; they have... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:9-14

One would not think there had been so much need as it seems there was to arm the people of Israel against the infection of the idolatrous customs of the Canaanites. Was it possible that a people so blessed with divine institutions should ever admit the brutish and barbarous inventions of men and devils? Were they in any danger of making those their tutors and directors in religion whom God had made their captives and tributaries? It seems they were in danger, and therefore, after many similar... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:15-22

Here is, I. The promise of the great prophet, with a command to receive him, and hearken to him. Now, 1. Some think it is the promise of a succession of prophets, that should for many ages be kept up in Israel. Besides the priests and Levites, their ordinary ministers, whose office it was to teach Jacob God's law, they should have prophets, extraordinary ministers, to reprove them for their faults, remind them of their duty, and foretel things to come, judgments for warning and deliverances... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:6

And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of Israel, where he sojourned ,.... In any of the cities through the land, for they were dispersed all over the country, and employed in instructing and teaching the people; and, excepting the cities which were given them to dwell in out of the various tribes, they were but sojourners: and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the Lord shall choose ; the city of Jerusalem, where the temple would be built, and sacrifices... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:7

And he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God ,.... The Targum of Jonathan is,"he shall minister in the name of the Word of the Lord his God;'in the name of Christ, as a type of him, as every priest and every sacrifice were: he was to be allowed to officiate, though it was not his course or turn: as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the Lord ; daily offering the same sacrifices, and whatsoever are brought unto them; who might be said to stand before the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:8

They shall have like portions to eat ,.... Equal parts of the sacrifices with the priests that usually ministered there; hence we learn, says Jarchi, that they divided the skins and flesh of the sin offerings; perhaps even such as did not come by virtue of the feast, as the daily sacrifices, and the additions of the sabbath, and the vows, and the freewill offerings: beside that which cometh by the sale of his patrimony : for though the priests and Levites had no inheritance divided to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:9

When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee ,.... The land of Canaan, often thus described, to express the goodness of God in bestowing it on them, as a mere favour of his, without any desert of theirs; and so typical of the heavenly Canaan, or eternal life, which is the free gift of God through Christ: thou shall not learn to do after the abominations of these nations ; the seven nations which before inhabited it; they might learn, as Jarchi observes, to know how... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:10

There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire ,.... To Moloch, which was a sort of lustration by fire, two fires being made, and the child led by a priest between them, and which was an initiation of him into the religion of that deity, and devoting him to it; so Jarchi says, this is the service of Moloch, making piles of fire here and there (on this side and on that), and causing (the children) to pass between them both. Besides this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:11

Or a charmer ,.... That pretends to cure diseases by charms, or a charmer of serpents; according to Jarchi, one that gathers together serpents and scorpions, and other animals, into one place; with which agree the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem,"which bind serpents and scorpions, and all kind of creeping things;'but, according to Aben Ezra, one that says certain words to gather demons together: or a consulter with familiar spirits ; or the inquirer of "Ob", or the bottle, which the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:12

For all that do these things are an abomination to the Lord ,.... Not that do all these things, but whoever does any of them, as Jarchi notes; all such persons that use such unlawful methods, or any of them, to gain knowledge; and likewise all those that consult them, and make use of them; and especially it must be very abominable in the people of Israel to encourage such persons and practices, who had the knowledge of the true God, and him to consult on all occasions; had his law and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:1-8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:9-14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:15-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:12

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