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
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