Deuteronomy 17:5

Deuteronomy 17:5 -

Unto thy gates ; judicial proceedings were conducted at the gates of the city, and in some place outside the walls the sentence was executed on the condemned criminal ( Nehemiah 8:1 , Nehemiah 8:3 ; Job 29:7 ; Deuteronomy 22:24 ; Acts 7:58 ; Hebrews 13:12 ), just as, during the journey through the wilderness, it had been outside the camp that transgressors were punished (Le Deuteronomy 24:14 ; Numbers 15:36 ).

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

The Pulpit Commentary is a homiletic commentary on the Bible created during the nineteenth century under the direction of Rev. Joseph S. Exell and Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones. It consists of 23 volumes with 22,000 pages and 95,000 entries, and was written over a 30-year period with 100 contributors.... Show more

Deuteronomy 17:5 -

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