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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 12:5-9

They Must Establish Their Worship At The Place Where He Chooses To Set His Name (Deuteronomy 12:5-9 ). Deuteronomy 12:5-7 ‘ But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation, shall you choose to seek, and to there you shall come, and to there you shall bring your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand (literally ‘what is lifted up in the hand’), and your vows, and... read more

Arthur Peake

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 12:5

To put his name there, i.e. to set up hiss worship there, or which he shall call by his name, as his house, or dwelling-place, &c., to wit, where the ark should be, the tabernacle, or temple; which was first Shiloh, Joshua 18:1, next and especially Jerusalem. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 12:6

The sacrifices were wisely appropriated to that one and public place, partly for the security of the true religion, and for the prevention of idolatry and superstition, which otherwise might more easily have crept in; and partly to signify that their sacrifices were not accepted for their own worth, but by God’s gracious appointment, and for the sake of God’s altar, by which they were sanctified, and for the sake of Christ, whom the altar did manifestly represent. Of tithes, See Poole... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 12:7

There; not in the most holy place, wherein only the priests might eat, Numbers 18:10, but more generally in places allowed to the people for this end in the holy city. Ye shall eat, to wit, your part of the things mentioned Deuteronomy 12:6. Before the Lord, i.e. in the place of God’s presence, where God’s sanctuary shall be. All that ye put your hand unto; either to bestow your pains and labour upon it; or, to take and use or enjoy it. The sense is, You thus doing shall be blessed and enabled... 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 12:5-6

Deuteronomy 12:5-6Unto His habitation shall ye seek.The Gospel of the holy placesI. God was pleased to choose out certain places to stand in a special relation of holiness unto himself under the Old Testament. This holiness of places was two-fold, either transient and merely for the present time, or else more permanent.1. The transient holiness of places was where the Lord gave visible appearances of Himself in His glorious majesty to the eyes of His servants; such places were holy during the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 12:5

Deu 12:5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, [even] unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: Ver. 5. And thither shalt thou come. ] In token of a holy communion with God. read more

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