PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Deuteronomy
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 215,517 words · 518 reading sections
Deuteronomy 15:9
Deuteronomy 15:9 Ver. 9. Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,.... "Or, thy heart of Belial" {f}; thy worthless heart, and which is without a yoke not subjected to the law of God, as every carnal heart is; and in which Belial, Satan, the prince of this world, works effectually, and inclines to evil t…
204 wordsSECTION 242Deuteronomy 15:10
Deuteronomy 15:10 Ver. 10. Thou shall surely give him,.... Or lend to him; though lending in such a case and circumstances, that person being extremely poor, and the year of release at hand, is the same as giving. Jarchi remarks that money must be given him, even a hundred times if he asks it; but the limitation is to…
170 wordsSECTION 243Deuteronomy 15:11
Deuteronomy 15:11 Ver. 11. For the poor shall never cease out of the land,.... There would be always such objects to exercise their charity and beneficence towards, Joh 12:8, which is no contradiction to De 15:4 for had they been obedient to the laws of God, they would have been so blessed that there would have been n…
231 wordsSECTION 244Deuteronomy 15:12
Deuteronomy 15:12 Ver. 12. And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee,.... By others, as by the sanhedrim for theft, for which a man might be sold, but not a woman, as Jarchi observes; but then a father might sell his daughter for an handmaid, if little and under age; and to such cases th…
172 wordsSECTION 245Deuteronomy 15:13
Deuteronomy 15:13 Ver. 13. And when thou sendest him out free from thee,.... When he discharged him from his servitude, and made him a free man: thou shall not let him go away empty; without anything to support himself, or to put himself in a way of business; he having in the time of his servitude worked entirely for…
73 wordsSECTION 246Deuteronomy 15:14
Deuteronomy 15:14 Ver. 14. Thou shalt furnish him liberally,.... Not only to supply his present wants, but for his future use, and to set him up in the world: "loading thou shall load him" {h}, so some render the words; give him as much as he can carry, and well stand up under; the word used has the signification of c…
338 wordsSECTION 247Deuteronomy 15:15
Deuteronomy 15:15 Ver. 15. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt,.... Where they were used hardly, and their lives were made bitter in hard bondage; and therefore should show the greater compassion to servants, whose case they could not but sympathize with, and have a fellow feeling of …
203 wordsSECTION 248Deuteronomy 15:16
Deuteronomy 15:16 Ver. 16. And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee,.... Out of his house, nor quit his service: because he loveth thee and thine house; his master and his family, and so loath to leave them, but chooses rather to stay with them than have his liberty; hence the Jews say {k}, …
258 wordsSECTION 249Deuteronomy 15:17
Deuteronomy 15:17 Ver. 17. Then thou shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door,.... Not of his master's house, but of the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, according to the Targum of Jonathan, before whom he was to be brought, and declare his desire to continue with his master; See Gill on "Ex 21…
835 wordsSECTION 250Deuteronomy 16:1
Deuteronomy 16:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 16 This chapter treats of the three grand yearly festivals, of the feast of passover, when, where, and what was to be sacrificed, how to be dressed, and in what manner to be eaten, De 16:1, of the feast of pentecost, when to begin it, where and how it was to be observed, D…
379 wordsSECTION 251Deuteronomy 16:2
Deuteronomy 16:2 Ver. 2. Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God,.... In the month Abib, and in the night of that month they came out of Egypt, even on the fourteenth day of it at night, between the two evenings, as the Targum of Jonathan; which was a lamb, and typical of Christ, the passover…
433 wordsSECTION 252Deuteronomy 16:3
Deuteronomy 16:3 Ver. 3. Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it,.... With the passover, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; that is, with the passover lamb, nor indeed with any of the passover, or peace offerings, as follows; see Ex 12:8 seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread therewith; with the passover; thi…
368 wordsSECTION 253Deuteronomy 16:4
Deuteronomy 16:4 Ver. 4. And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coasts seven days,.... For before the passover they were to search diligently every room in the house, and every hole and crevice, that none might remain any where; see Ex 12:15, neither shall there be anything of the flesh, which…
139 wordsSECTION 254Deuteronomy 16:5
Deuteronomy 16:5 Ver. 5. Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates,.... Or cities, as the Targum of Jonathan, so called because they usually had gates to them, in which public affairs were transacted; but in none of these, only in the city of Jerusalem, the place the Lord chose, might they kill th…
86 wordsSECTION 255Deuteronomy 16:6
Deuteronomy 16:6 Ver. 6. But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in,.... To place the ark and the mercy seat with the cherubim over them, where he caused his Shechinah, or divine Majesty, to dwell; and this was at Jerusalem, where the temple was built by Solomon: there thou shalt sacrif…
174 wordsSECTION 256Deuteronomy 16:7
Deuteronomy 16:7 Ver. 7. And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose,.... The word for "roast" signifies to "boil", and is justly so used, and so Onkelos here renders it, and the Septuagint version both roast and boil; but it is certain that the passover lamb was not to be boiled, …
350 wordsSECTION 257Deuteronomy 16:8
Deuteronomy 16:8 Ver. 8. Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread,.... In other places it is ordered to be eaten seven days, Ex 12:15 and here it is not said six only; it was to be eaten on the seventh as on the other, though that is here distinguished from the six, because of special and peculiar service assigned to …
227 wordsSECTION 258Deuteronomy 16:9
Deuteronomy 16:9 Ver. 9. Seven weeks then shalt thou number unto thee,.... And then another feast was to take place, called from hence the feast of weeks, and sometimes Pentecost, from its being the fiftieth day: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn; for the s…
127 wordsSECTION 259Deuteronomy 16:10
Deuteronomy 16:10 Ver. 10. And thou shall keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God,.... The feast of Pentecost, at which time the Spirit was poured down upon the apostles, Ac 2:1 with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand; there were two wave loaves which were ordered to be brought and seven lambs, one …
182 wordsSECTION 260Deuteronomy 16:11
Deuteronomy 16:11 Ver. 11. And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God,.... Make a liberal feast, and keep it cheerfully, in the presence of God, in the place where he resides, thankfully acknowledging all his mercies and favours: thou, and thy son, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is w…
119 wordsSECTION 261Deuteronomy 16:12
Deuteronomy 16:12 Ver. 12. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt,.... And now delivered from that bondage; the consideration of which should make them liberal in their freewill offering, and generous in the feast they provided, and compassionate to the stranger, widow, and fatherless: and thou sha…
121 wordsSECTION 262Deuteronomy 16:13
Deuteronomy 16:13 Ver. 13. Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days,.... Which began on the fifteenth day of Tisri, or September; see Le 23:34, &c. after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine; and therefore sometimes called the feast of ingathering, Ex 23:16, barley harvest began at the passo…
89 wordsSECTION 263Deuteronomy 16:14
Deuteronomy 16:14 Ver. 14. And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast,.... At this feast of tabernacles and ingathering of the fruits of the earth, in token of gratitude and thankfulness for the goodness of God bestowed on them; the Targum of Jonathan adds, with the flute and the pipe, making use of instrumental music to inc…
73 wordsSECTION 264Deuteronomy 16:15
Deuteronomy 16:15 Ver. 15. Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God,.... The feast of tabernacles still spoken of: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose: the city of Jerusalem:because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy increase, and in all the works of thine hands; both in …
1,633 wordsSECTION 265Deuteronomy 17:1
Deuteronomy 17:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 17 This chapter begins with a caution not to sacrifice anything to the Lord that is blemished or ill favoured, De 17:1, an order is given to put to death men or women guilty of idolatry, where it is clearly proved upon them, De 17:2 and it is directed that when cases are t…
253 wordsSECTION 266Deuteronomy 17:2
Deuteronomy 17:2 Ver. 2. If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee,.... In any of their cities in the land of Canaan: man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God: as all that is wrought is in the sight of the omniscient God; here it means no…
166 wordsSECTION 267Deuteronomy 17:3
Deuteronomy 17:3 Ver. 3. And hath gone,.... The Targum of Jonathan adds, after the evil imagination or concupiscence, lusting after other lovers, and forsaking the true God, and departing from his worship: and served other gods; strange gods, the idols of the people, other gods besides the true God; the creature besi…
268 wordsSECTION 268Deuteronomy 17:4
Deuteronomy 17:4 Ver. 4. And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently,.... A report of this kind was not to be neglected; though it was not to be concluded upon as certain by hearsay, it was to be looked into, and the persons that brought it thoroughly examined; so the Targum of Jonathan, "…
187 wordsSECTION 269Deuteronomy 17:5
Deuteronomy 17:5 Ver. 5. Thou shall bring forth that man or that woman which have committed the wicked thing,.... Idolatry in any of the above instances: this must be supposed to be done after he or she have been had before a court of judicature, and have been tried and found guilty, and sentence passed on them, then …
297 wordsSECTION 270Deuteronomy 17:6
Deuteronomy 17:6 Ver. 6. At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death,.... The idolater found guilty was to be stoned; two witnesses were sufficient to prove a fact, if three the better, but, on the testimony of one, sentence might not be pronounced. Aben Ezra obs…
209 wordsSECTION 271Deuteronomy 17:7
Deuteronomy 17:7 Ver. 7. The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death,.... Of everyone of them, as Aben Ezra; they were to cast the first stone at him, which would be a further trial and confirmation of their testimony; for if they readily and without reluctance first began the stoning of the…
180 wordsSECTION 272Deuteronomy 17:8
Deuteronomy 17:8 Ver. 8. If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment,.... This is spoken to inferior judges in cities in the country, who sometimes might have cases too wonderful and mysterious, as the word signifies, or secret and hidden, such as were out of their reach and beyond their capacity, and so be …
516 wordsSECTION 273Deuteronomy 17:9
Deuteronomy 17:9 Ver. 9. Thou shalt come unto the priests, the Levites,.... The priests that are of the tribe of Levi, as the Targum of Jonathan, and so Jarchi; for Aben Ezra says there are priests that are not of the genealogy of Levi; such there were indeed in Jeroboam's time, 1Ki 12:31. Maimonides {f} observes, tha…
235 wordsSECTION 274Deuteronomy 17:10
Deuteronomy 17:10 Ver. 10. And thou shalt do according to the sentence which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall show thee,.... The judges of the inferior courts were to return and proceed on the difficult case according to the judgment of the great court at Jerusalem, and follow the directions and in…
115 wordsSECTION 275Deuteronomy 17:11
Deuteronomy 17:11 Ver. 11. According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee,.... For they were not to make any new law, but to teach the law of God, and so far as their sense and opinion of things agreed with that law they were to be regarded: and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, …
234 wordsSECTION 276Deuteronomy 17:12
Deuteronomy 17:12 Ver. 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 tak…
357 wordsSECTION 277Deuteronomy 17:13
Deuteronomy 17:13 Ver. 13. And all the people shall hear, and fear,.... All the people of Israel in their own cities, and particularly the judges in those cities; they shall hear of what is done to the obstinate and disobedient elder, and shall be afraid to commit the like offence, lest they should come into the same …
136 wordsSECTION 278Deuteronomy 17:14
Deuteronomy 17:14 Ver. 14. When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee,.... The land of Canaan: and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein; be entirely in the possession of it, and settled in it; it seems to denote some time of continuance in it, as it was, before they thought of setting a …
135 wordsSECTION 279Deuteronomy 17:15
Deuteronomy 17:15 Ver. 15. Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee whom the Lord thy God shall choose,.... The Jews take this to be a command to set a king over them: whereas it is only a permission in case they should desire and determine on having one, as God foresaw they would; and this with a limitation an…
1,649 wordsSECTION 280Deuteronomy 18:1
Deuteronomy 18:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 18 This chapter gives an account of the provision made for the priests and Levites, with the reason of it, De 18:1, of allowance of a country Levite to minister at Jerusalem, and take his portion with the rest, De 18:6, and of several persons of bad practices not to be suf…
247 wordsSECTION 281Deuteronomy 18:2
Deuteronomy 18:2 Ver. 2. Therefore shall they have none inheritance among their brethren,.... Neither of the field, nor of the vineyard, as the above Targum, because provision was made for them otherwise, and especially because the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them, See Gill on "Nu 18:20", which as…
125 wordsSECTION 282Deuteronomy 18:3
Deuteronomy 18:3 Ver. 3. And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer sacrifice,.... Not from the priests, as Jarchi observes, but from those that bring the sacrifices to the priests, particularly the peace offerings: whether it be ox or sheep; the one of the herd, the other of the flock, …
239 wordsSECTION 283Deuteronomy 18:4
Deuteronomy 18:4 Ver. 4. The firstfruit also of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thy oil,.... This is the "terumah", or heave offering, the offering of the firstfruits; what the measure or quantity was is not declared, but is fixed by the Jews; See Gill on "Ex 22:29", and the first of the fleece of thy sheep shall t…
410 wordsSECTION 284Deuteronomy 18:5
Deuteronomy 18:5 Ver. 5. For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes,.... That is, has chosen the tribe of Levi out of all the other tribes of Israel: to stand to minister in the name of the Lord; the priests to minister to the Lord by offering sacrifices, and the Levites to minister to the priests in …
189 wordsSECTION 285Deuteronomy 18:6
Deuteronomy 18:6 Ver. 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 var…
251 wordsSECTION 286Deuteronomy 18:7
Deuteronomy 18:7 Ver. 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 …
155 wordsSECTION 287Deuteronomy 18:8
Deuteronomy 18:8 Ver. 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, an…
280 wordsSECTION 288Deuteronomy 18:9
Deuteronomy 18:9 Ver. 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…
149 wordsSECTION 289Deuteronomy 18:10
Deuteronomy 18:10 Ver. 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,…
752 wordsSECTION 290Deuteronomy 18:11
Deuteronomy 18:11 Ver. 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…
347 wordsSECTION 291Deuteronomy 18:12
Deuteronomy 18:12 Ver. 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; an…
164 wordsSECTION 292Deuteronomy 18:13
Deuteronomy 18:13 Ver. 13. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. Sincerely serve and worship him, faithfully adhere to his word, laws, statutes, and ordinances, and walk uprightly before him.…
33 wordsSECTION 293Deuteronomy 18:14
Deuteronomy 18:14 Ver. 14. For those nations which thou shall possess hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners,.... Such as are before mentioned, and did as they directed them: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do; or, "but thou not so" {m} thou shouldest not do so, not hearke…
257 wordsSECTION 294Deuteronomy 18:15
Deuteronomy 18:15 Ver. 15. The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet,.... Not Joshua, as Aben Ezra, not Jeremiah, as Baal Haturim, nor David {o}, as others; nor a succession of prophets, as Jarchi; for a single person is only spoken of; and there is a dissimilitude between Moses and anyone of the prophets, an…
457 wordsSECTION 295Deuteronomy 18:16
Deuteronomy 18:16 Ver. 16. According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God at Horeb,.... This was promised them, in answer to their request at Horeb or Mount Sinai, when the law was delivered to them in the terrible manner it was: in the day of the assembly; in which the tribes were gathered together to recei…
998 wordsSECTION 296Deuteronomy 19:1
Deuteronomy 19:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 19 This chapter contains an order to separate three cities of refuge in the land of Canaan, for such that killed a man unawares to flee to, of which those who were guilty of murder purposely were to have no benefit, De 19:1, a law is given against removing landmarks, De 19…
194 wordsSECTION 297Deuteronomy 19:2
Deuteronomy 19:2 Ver. 2. Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land,.... From the cities they took possession of and dwelt in; and indeed from the cities of the Levites, which were given to them to inhabit; three were before ordered to be separated from those inhabited by the tribes of Reuben a…
143 wordsSECTION 298Deuteronomy 19:3
Deuteronomy 19:3 Ver. 3. Thou shalt prepare thee a way,.... A road, an highway to those cities: on the first of Adar, or February, the magistrates used to meet, and proclaimed, or ordered to be proclaimed, that the ways be repaired {r}, particularly those leading to the cities of refuge; which was done by making them …
338 wordsSECTION 299Deuteronomy 19:4
Deuteronomy 19:4 Ver. 4. And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live,.... It was not any slayer that might have protection in these cities, but such who were thus and thus circumstanced, or whose case was as follows: whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly; without intention, as the …
136 wordsSECTION 300Deuteronomy 19:5
Deuteronomy 19:5 Ver. 5. As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood,.... A wood is a place common to men, and cutting down wood a business which any man might do; whereas a private place, where a man had no right to be, and doing what he had no business with, rendered a case suspicious, and such …
502 wordsSource & rights
Public domain; John Gill (1697–1771). Source item is marked Public Domain on Internet Archive.
Project Gutenberg source record →
Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.