The Lord hath said — The Lord hath now said to me, and I, by his command, declare it to you. BibliographyGill, John. The Lord hath said.] Deuteronomy Chapter 17. He fulfils, honours, and satisfies broken laws, and covers the defenceless head of the contrite, and turns aside the merited destruction which was sweeping towards him. "Ye shall henceforth return no more by that way" of youth. Does the mean that we should give (money) as we are able? Deuteronomy 17:16. or does this mean we shall … BibliographyWhedon, Daniel. 1865-1868. 1857. A single careless miner, by a momentary act of folly, can do what can never be undone, and in an instant fill a land with sorrow, and hundreds of homes with the tears of widows and orphans. 1. "Sermon Bible Commentary". Let us be up and doing; for all things pure and beautiful sweep along the upward groove of progress to perfection. The Lord, it may be, laid Himself out with parental tenderness to purify thee by disappointment, crosses, and suffering. Solomon received 666 talents of gold per year [], besides what he collected from the merchants, traders, Arabian kings, and governors of the land [].. King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures of gold were used for each shield []. I have no doubt, then, but that God condemns an immoderate number of horses from the consequences which might ensue; because it might excite the minds of the kings rashly to undertake expeditions against the Egyptians. 4 When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. Has seed been put into thy hand, and hast thou not sown it? My message is salvation, but not salvation which you can effect in time that is gone. When once settled, they might very well defend their possession without the help of cavalry; but to conquer it without cavalry, and from a warlike people abounding in horse, was more than a raw, unpractised infantry could ever have performed alone. Nothing is haphazard or accidental about the manner in which He dispenses His blessings. The spirit of the prohibition therefore is that the king of Israel must not, like other earthly potentates, put his trust in costly and formidable preparations for war (compare Hosea 1:7). https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/wen/deuteronomy-17.html. Hebrew, "he shall not make the people return to Egypt, in order that he may multiply horses," by their buying them for him in that country, 3 Kings x. III. “But,” said his companion, “I should think it a great deal brighter to be forty than fifty.” “Not at all,” replied Hugo, gaily; “forty years is the old age of youth, while fifty is the youth of old age.” Ah, just think how many fine chances yet wait for a brave heart in the beautiful future which we hope to enter on after next New Year’s day! "The law given to the kings of Israel," says Bishop Sherlock, "considered together with the history of that nation, seems a very strong presumption for the divine original of the law of Moses. The path over which we have passed may have been so rough and steep and dangerous that we cannot contemplate traversing it again without a shudder. (Note: When Riehm objects to this, that if such a prohibition had been unnecessary in a future age, in which the people had reached the full consciousness of its national independence, and every thought of the possibility of a reunion with the Egyptians had disappeared, Moses would never have issued it, since he must have foreseen the national independence of the people; the force of this objection rests simply upon his confounding foreseeing with assuming, and upon a thoroughly mistaken view of the prophet's vision of the future. But nothing is so impatient of bounds as a multitude flushed with victories: the projects of such a people are always going on from conquest to conquest. 16. 66), Psammetichus hired soldiers from Arabia, Caria, and Ionia; and according to Herodotus (i. Deuteronomy 23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. Almost all of us have some past worth looking over. Moses saw in the corruptions of Egyptian life the danger there was to the people in a close connexion with that country. (W. M. Taylor, D. D.). sæc. 4. and MaimonidesF8Hilchot Melachim, c. 3. sect. Secondly, we may observe, that the possessors of mountainous regions may so dispose their cities and fortresses, with which they cover their country, as to make an invader's cavalry absolutely useless; and consequently to have no occasion for one of their own. 1. But does anybody really want to do that? He shall not multiply horses to himself— The injunction here laid being to prevent all commerce with Egypt, we must conclude that Egypt supplied other nations with horses; but it may give light to the sacred text, to inquire more particularly into the reasons of this prohibition, which we shall find so weighty and various, as to appear worthy of its author, and accommodated only to a law of divine origin. Worshiping Other Gods # In Hebrew texts 13:1-18 is numbered 13:2-19. In the years now behind thee, has the firmament of thy soul often been dull and sunless, and even louring and tempestuous? BibliographyBeza, Theodore. Then in the morning return to your tents. And wise men may well think of readiness to make the great journey and meet the revelations. Bible commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy, chapter 17, by Dr. Bob Utley, retired professor of hermeneutics. 5 You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the LORD your God gives you 6 except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. 4. Hereby God would prevent many sins and mischiefs, as. Isaiah 4:6; Isaiah 4:6. Do manifold imperfection and unworthiness bow thee down? 5. "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". Yet thou sawest no bright avenues crossing the path of thy shade, and conducting to beauty and peace. (71) רק, rak, is an adversative particle which some construe only; almost with the same meaning, because this exception was added to restrain the passions of their kings. Can it be supposed, that the history of many ages, and which relates to the affairs not only of the princes of Israel, but of other contemporary kings, is all forged, and that merely to shew an agreement between the history and this particular law? Van Oosterzee, Year of Salvation, vol. John Trapp Complete Commentary. Ver. I cannot undo what I have done. But this want of horse would effectually prevent any attempt at extending their dominions either into the lesser Asia, Mesopotamia, or Egypt; all of which, being stretched out into large and extended plains, could not be safely invaded without a numerous cavalry: in this view, therefore, the wisdom of the law can never be sufficiently admired. What is the meaning to Deuteronomy 16:17, it states: Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee. 12 And the man that will do presumptuously The judge of the country court that makes his application to that at Jerusalem for information and direction; if, after all, he is conceited in his own opinion, and rejects theirs, and is obstinate, and will not be guided and directed, but will take his own way, and pursue his own sense of things, and act according to that: Deuteronomy 17 - "You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God a bull or sheep which has any blemish [or] defect, for that [is] an abomination to the LORD your God. "Commentary on Deuteronomy 17:16". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsb/deuteronomy-17.html. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and PowerPoints for Preaching on Deuteronomy 17:17. An Exhortation to Obedience, Part 2 (20-1) Introduction Our Father in Heaven is a being who governs by law. In the day of reckoning you cannot number profits where there have been no gains, nor number victories, if no achievements have been won. Deuteronomy 17:16. (H. Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. Are they the burden of thy prayers? Bovet ('Voyage en Terre Saints' p. 310) says-`In the present day Egypt is the country of donkeys, and Palestine that of horses. Many people ask what does this verse mean? Copyright StatementThese files are public domain.Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. The paragraph deals with appropriate ways of offering sacrifices. This then being the very situation of affairs when the Israelites invaded Canaan, and conquered it, I conclude that they must have been miraculously assisted. If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing His covenant, who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded, and it is told you, and you hear of it, th… Deuteronomy 17:16 Context. The reason and the effect of this law are pointed out by Bochart's 'Hierozoicon;' by Paxton, 'Natural History,'. Perhaps it might have been regained if a serious search had been in order at such a time. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/whe/deuteronomy-17.html. "Commentary on Deuteronomy 17:16". Deuteronomy 17:16 16 Only he must not acquire many c horses for himself or cause the people d to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the … The royal power is here circumscribed within certain limits, lest it should exalt itself too much in reliance on the glory of its dignity, (70) For we know how insatiable are the desires of kings, inasmuch as they imagine that all things are lawful to them. All Rightes Reserved, Larry Pierce, Winterbourne, Ontario.A printed copy of this work can be ordered from: The Baptist Standard Bearer, 1 Iron Oaks Dr, Paris, AR, 72855. Leg. In the exercise of responsible will we can bring out heavenly harmonies, or unearthly discords. is a mournful utterance. In the drift of a far-off period in the geological ages, long before Adam was created, we find the feet marks of gigantic fowls. Fill every day with His service. If we please, we can obtain, through the great atonement, acceptance with God notwithstanding our sins. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". The second admonition also, that the king was not to take to himself many wives, and turn away his heart (sc., from the Lord), nor greatly multiply to himself silver and gold, can be explained without the hypothesis that there is an allusion to Solomon's reign, although this king did transgress both commands (1 Kings 10:14. Lost opportunities cannot be recalled, and no cement of human device can mend a broken vow. White, Congregationalist, vol. Read commentary on this popular Bible verse and understand the real meaning behind God's Word using John Gill's Exposition of the Bible. III. 2 “When you begin living in the towns the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman among you might do evil in the sight of the Lord your God and violate the covenant. Our afterthought has shown us much to which our forethought was blind; but we cannot alter anything now. We ought to learn to estimate results and forget processes. The path of time gone by is closed. Now, since the particle למען lemagnan, signifies “for the sake of (propter), it may be properly translated to the letter, “for the sake of multiplying horses, ” (propter multiplicare, vel propter ad multiplicandum.) Our life, with measured capacities, is the instrument, and we the players. Josue and David rendered the captured horses useless, (Josue xi. These laws have their fulfilment in the domain of spiritual life. Never again! When the Lord said this is not certain; it may be when they proposed to make a captain, and return unto Egypt; or he said this in his providence, this was the language of it ever since they came out of it, or however this he now said; see Deuteronomy 28:68. 10:12, 13; (Ps. (Preacher’s Monthly.). (B. BibliographyExell, Joseph S. "Commentary on "Deuteronomy 17:16". The shocking gap in human life and relationship nothing can repair. It is well to have a clearing out, even if one is afraid he may be suffocated with the lifted dust. You will not have to take the same chances again. Finding the new version too difficult to understand? See Div. When Solomon had violated this law, and multiplied horses, it was soon attended with those fatal consequences which the law foretold. Let the sincere Christian be comforted. An admonition in it for the close of the year. 3. The close of a year is a most significant time for the taking of spiritual stock. Batchelor.). It is well known that Solomon in this respect, as well as in many others, set himself above the law (1 Kings 10:26-29; 2 Chronicles 9:28), in his ambition to surpass all the monarchs of the East in magnificence. The first prohibition is, that he should not collect for himself a multitude of horses; but, since it is twice repeated, we must consider why it is so. That the princes prospered, and extended their dominion over great countries, when they had neither chariots nor horses, and were ruined and undone when they were strong in these forces? He stands between the sinner and the woe that pursues him. (Deuteronomy 17:1-7) 1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God. Deuteronomy 1:12 "How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?" Horses. The ways of youth are not to be trodden by us again. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfu/deuteronomy-17.html. Knepper.). The Dangers of Prosperity (Deuteronomy 8:11-20) Generosity and God's Blessing (Deuteronomy 15:7-11) Slavery (Deuteronomy 15:12-18) Bribery and Corruption (Deuteronomy 16:18-20) Obeying Decisions of Courts of Law (Deuteronomy 17:8-13) Using Authority Justly (Deuteronomy 17:14-20) Employing Assets for the Common Good (Deuteronomy 23:1-24:13) I answer, that if we cannot cancel it, we can confess the evil that is in it, and seek through Jesus Christ forgiveness for that. A richly furnished harem, and the accumulation of silver and gold, were inseparably connected with the luxury of Oriental monarchs generally; so that the fear was a very natural one, that the future king of Israel might follow the general customs of the heathen in these respects. Deuteronomy 29:29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.” Explanation and Commentary of Deuteronomy 29:29. 1870. This law, however, was not obeyed by their best kings; and hence it appears that the wilfulness and pride of their kings could scarcely be repressed by any restraints. Provision for Kingship (Deuteronomy 17:16-20 NET). But the multiplication of horses would inevitably lead to many evils, to increased intercourse with foreign nations, especially with Egypt, to the importation of an animal to which the character of the country was not suited, to the establishment of an Oriental military despotism, to proud and pompous parade in peace, to a dependence upon Egypt in time of war, and a consequent withdrawal of trust and confidence in God. Deuteronomy 17:16 not multiply horses; Deuteronomy 17:18 a copy of this law; Deuteronomy 18:4 shalt thou give him; Deuteronomy 18:10 witch. And there may be not a few among us who feel just in the same way concerning some chapters in our last year’s life. The popular proverb says, “It is never too late to mend.” True, it is never too late to mend in the present, but always too late to mend in the past. Pride of heart, and contempt of his people. That way; in the way that leads to that place. The horse was not anciently used in the East for purposes of agriculture or traveling, but ordinarily for war only. "Commentary on Deuteronomy 17:16". In Biblical times it was the reverse, as is evident from the early rules prescribed for regulating the conduct of Israelite kings. DEUTERONOMY 17:18. Many thus translate it, “He shall not multiply horses, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to multiply horses;” but this manner of speaking is harsh and obscure. 1. 6., and 2 Kings viii. 4. Has blessing been committed to thy solemn trust, and hast thou not scattered it? So this text, taken as an assurance, that we cannot re-live our lives, or go again through the experiences of the past, has in it an element of comfort. Or, how shall we account for the conduct of the prophets, who saw the people ruined, and, instead of reproaching them with cowardice, and a neglect of their necessary defence, reproach them with having been too strong, too powerful in horses and horsemen?". I. But brood not over bygone evil. Answ. iv., p. 264. 16But he shall not multiply horses. Your holy life is watched and guarded by His sheltering love. (Marsham, Canon. Many OT scholars of our day say that Deuteronomy is the book that was found during Josiah's reform hundreds of years later during the monarchial period, and that it was written by the priests then to centralize worship at Jerusalem (cf. The Biblical Illustrator. 4. What Does Deuteronomy 18:18 Mean? Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible. We should bring our unfulfilled resolutions to God, and ask Him to grant us time to complete them. 4,) and the judges rode on asses, Judges x. But this is not expounding Scripture; it is putting hypotheses into it. Deuteronomy 6:4–5: "Hear, O Israel (shema Yisra'el), the L ORD is our God, the L ORD is one!" We should bring our unfulfilled resolutions to God, and ask Him to grant us time to complete them. Egypt engaged in horse trading, and the danger envisioned here is that some king might make Israel a vassal of Egypt for military aid. In the first place, he was not to keep many horses, or lead back the people to Egypt, to multiply horses, because Jehovah had forbidden the people to return thither by that way. Deuteronomy 17:17. 16 The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses(A)for himself(B)or make the people return to Egypt(C)to get more of them,(D)for the Lordhas told you, “You are not to go back that way again.” … (Calmet) --- He precludes also the attempt to conquer Egypt. "And it be told thee, and thou hast heard [of it], and inquired diligently, and, behold, [it be] true, [and] … But the spirit of the Mosaic legislation continued to be upheld by the prophets (Isaiah 2:7), and even in an age of gross degeneracy, Zechariah, when describing the restoration of a native sovereign, represents him entering Jerusalem like the ancient judges of Israel, not upon a horse or a mule, but upon an ass of the native breed' (Zechariah 9:9 : cf. New ground is before thee, and every step is towards the light. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/deuteronomy-17.html. BibliographyTorrey, R. A. The peculiar character of the Gospel is due to the fact that we cannot undo the past. For, supposing Moses to be a mere human legislator, like Solon or Lycurgus, what could tempt him to forbid the princes of his country the use of horses and chariots for their defence? https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfb/deuteronomy-17.html. The glory of every true life is in the time to come. But the invaders of such a place, where cavalry is in use, and consequently the defences disposed in a contrary manner, so as best to favour the operations of horse; the invaders, I say, go to certain destruction, without a body of horse to support their infantry. IV. Deuteronomy 17:17. Deuteronomy 17:16–17 teaches that the king was not to keep many horses, marry many wives, or amass excess silver and gold. Deuteronomy 17:16 Given the size and scope of the empire he inherited from his father David, Solomon no doubt needed means for transportation and trade. book 4: sect. When he sitteth upon the throne—he shall write him a copy of this law — Either this book of Deuteronomy, which is an abstract of the law, or, as others think, the whole five books of Moses; and that with his own hand, as a mean to fix it more strongly in his mind; insomuch, that though a copy was left him by his father, he was, notwithstanding, to transcribe one for himself. The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.” Now, the question is, why God forbade His people to return by that way? IV. "Commentary on Deuteronomy 17:16". Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. BibliographyNicoll, William R. "Commentary on Deuteronomy 17:16". If there has been neglect or inadequate tillage, when harvest time arrives there is no going back to re-sow or re-tend. Don’t acquire many horses (don’t raise a military). He may be grieved and ashamed that his time has been so little devoted to his vocation. "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tbi/deuteronomy-17.html. There certainly is, in the distance, that which “eye hath not seen nor ear heard.” And wise men, while the years chime on, might well think of readiness to make the great journey and meet the revelations. This is actually a relatively easy and quick verse to explain. He cannot transport industry into past idleness, nor introduce a single item of gain into past losses. The effects of human action are as unchangeable. Their confederacies with the Egyptians, their trusting to them for aid, which they were very prone to, and their infection by the idolatry and other manifold wickednesses for which Egypt was infamous. It is man’s dread prerogative to do; but he cannot undo. Touching and sad is the last look of the emigrant leaving his old home and the white cliffs of his native land. III. And when Riehm still further observes, that the taste for horses, which lay at the foundation of this fear, evidently points to a later time, when the old repugnance to cavalry which existed in the nation in the days of the judges, and even under David, had disappeared; this supposed repugnance to cavalry is a fiction of the critic himself, without any historical foundation. Following the judgements in Eden, the flood and the tower of Babel man continued to rebel against the Lord and delighted to serve and worship the creation rather than the Creator, and so God took the little nation of Israel to be His chosen people.. His holy, set-apart mouthpiece on earth - to proclaim the good news of … Lest he be held as our Henry III was, Regni dilapidator, the royal spendthrift. Deuteronomy 17:16, Horses • Deuteronomy 17:16…he shall not multiply horses for himself…” • Off-duty work horses trot across a dry wash in the Sierra Baguales in Patagonia, Chile, February 1960.PHOTOGRAPH BY KIP ROSS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 20. 2. To all neglecters, opportunity is a narrowing path, which at length vanishes in trackless wilds; to the obedient, it is an ever-expanding, ascending, and illumined career, and into it all courses run which lead to glory, honour, and immortality. Deuteronomy 17 English Standard Version 1 “You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God. "Commentary on Deuteronomy 17:16". To get what Deuteronomy 17:18 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity. It is a relief to know that some things are over and done with. In a few more breaths thy life may close. The observation made by Benhadad, 1 Kings 20:23; 1 Kings 20:43 supports what has been advanced. He shall not multiply horses.] We have only once to live; therefore let us live to purpose. Deuteronomy 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, The past is always seen more correctly after it has become the past than it was when it was present. 1859. Deuteronomy 18:13.—J. God gave strength for this (Deuteronomy 8:18), not because of Israel's merit and worthiness, but to fulfil His promises which He had made on oath to the patriarchs. 20:20; Deut. 111:10; 128:1; Eccl. ... Deuteronomy 10:16(NASB) Verse Thoughts. Verse 68 also states “through the way about which I had said to you, You will never see it again” referring to a commandment that was given to the Nation of Israel in Deuteronomy 17:16 as well as its mention again in Exodus 14:13. The experiences through which we have come may have been such that we cannot wish for their renewal. But he shall not multiply horses to himself,.... That he might not put his trust and confidence in outward things, as some are apt to trust in horses and chariots; and that he might not tyrannise over and distress his subjects by keeping a number of horses and chariots as a standing army, and chiefly for a reason that follows; he was to have no more than for his own chariot, so Jarchi, and so the MisnahF7Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. Think of Deuteronomy as a sequel-slash-remake of the rest of the Hebrew Bible up until this point. Their king should not make those preparations for war and conquest which were so generally made by Eastern despots. That his heart turn not away — From God and his law, as Solomon’s did. Deuteronomy 17:1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
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