Deuteronomy 17
New King James Version
Various Instructions
17 “You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God a bull or sheep which has any [a]blemish or defect, for that is an [b]abomination to the Lord your God.
2 “If there is found among you, within any of your [c]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, 3 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, 4 and it is told you, and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an [d]abomination has been committed in Israel, 5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing, and shall stone to death that man or woman with stones. 6 Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from among you.
[YES THERE WAS A DEATH PENALTY IN ANCIENT ISRAEL; REMEMBER NOW THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS THE ONE WHO BECAME THE CHRIST JESUS. NOW THERE WAS ALSO FOREGIVENESS AND MERCY FROM THAT DEATH PENALTY—— EXAMPLE IS KING DAVID. ADULTERY AND MURDER HAD THE DEATH PENALTY. BUT UPON TRUE DEEP REPENTANCE, DAVID WAS SPARED FROM THAT DEATH PENALTY, AND GIVEN OTHER PUNISHMENTS - Keith Hunt]
8 “If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses. 9 And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge there in those days, and inquire of them; they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment. 10 You shall do according to the sentence which they pronounce upon you in that place which the Lord chooses. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they order you. 11 According to the sentence of the law in which they instruct you, according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left from the sentence which they pronounce upon you.
[YES NOT ALL ANSWERS TO EVERY JUDGING CASE IS IN THE BIBLE. GOD GIVES WISDOM AND INSIGHT FOR ANSWERS TO HIS SERVANTS - Keith Hunt]
12 Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act presumptuously.
[O WOW….. WHEN THE SERVANT OF GOD GIVES AN ANSWER, THE PERSON SEEKING AN ANSWER BETTER TAKE HEED AND LISTEN AND DO ACCORDINGLY - Keith Hunt]
Principles Governing Kings
14 “When you come to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’ 15 you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16 But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall not return that way again.’ 17 Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.
[POLYGAMY WAS ALLOWED IN ANCIENT ISRAEL FOR THE HARDNESS OF THE HEART, THE PRINCIPLE AS JESUS TAUGHT - MATT. 19. BUT FOR KINGS IT WAS NOT TO BE DONE, THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL WAY GOD WANTED IT TO BE. YET AS WE KNOW DAVID AND ESPECIALLY SOLOMON, HAD MANY WIVES, AND WE KNOW AS IT IS WRITTEN, SOLOMON'S HEART TURNED AWAY FROM SERVING GOD BECAUSE OF PLEASING ALL HIS WIVES. DAVID HAD AT TIMES TROUBLES BECAUSE OF HAVING MORE THAN ONE WIFE. HE FINALLY HAD ONLY BATHSHEBA AS WIFE. GOD ALSO KNEW BEFOREHAND ISRAEL WOULD WANT A KING. AND IT WAS GOD WHO WOULD CHOOSE THE KING. READING CAREFULLY SAUL WAS CHOSEN BY GOD. IF YOU READ THE CONTEXT YOU WILL BE SURPRISED CONCERNING SAUL AND GOD. I WILL LEAVE YOU TO FIND SOME INTERESTING TRUTHS ABOUT SAUL AND GOD - Keith Hunt]
18 “Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the onebefore the priests, the Levites. 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, 20 that his heart may not [e]be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may [f]prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.
[DAVID HAD HIS SINS, BUT HE ALSO HAD TRUE DEEP REPENTANCE. HE LOVED GOD'S WORD AND HIS LAWS AND COMMANDMENTS. HE WAS AS GOD TELLS US IN THE NEW TESTAMENT A MAN AFTER THE HEART OF GOD - Keith Hunt]
Deuteronomy 18
New King James Version
The Portion of the Priests and Levites
18 “The priests, the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have [a]no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and His portion. 2 Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord is their inheritance, as He said to them.
3 “And this shall be the priest’s due[b] from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach. 4 The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. 5 For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons forever.
6 “So if a Levite comes from any of your [c]gates, from where he dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place which the Lord chooses, 7 then he may serve in the name of the Lord his God as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the Lord. 8 They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.
[PRIESTS AND LEVITES HAD NO LAND INHERITANCE AS DID THE OTHER TRIBES—- THEY WERE TO BE LOOKED AFTER AS THEY SERVED GOD AND THE PEOPLE - Keith Hunt]
Avoid Wicked Customs
9 “When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the [d]abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass[e] through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 For all who do these things are [f]an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. 13 You shall be [g]blameless before the Lord your God. 14 For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not [h]appointed such for you.
[HERE GOD TELLS YOU WHAT HE THINKS OF WITCHES, SORCERS, DIVINERS, MEDIUMS WITH SPIRITS, ENCHANTERS ETC. THE HARRY POTTER MOVIES ARE ABOMINATIONS TO GOD - Keith Hunt]
A New Prophet Like Moses
15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, 16 according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’
17 “And the Lord said to me: ‘What they have spoken is good. 18 I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. 19 And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.
[AS MOST KNOW THIS IS A PROPHECY OF THE COMING MESSIAH CHRIST JESUS. HE WOULD SPEAK GOD'S WORD. THOSE WHO WOULD NOT, WILL NOT, HEAR AND SERVE THE WORD OF GOD, ARE GOING TO BE IN DEEP DEEP TROUBLE IN THE END - IT WILL BE THE END OF THEM FOR ETERNITY - Keith Hunt]
20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’— 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.
[A PROPHET, A TEACHER, WHO TELLS YOU HE SPEAKS IN GOD'S NAME, OR IN THE NAME OF ANOTHER GOD, AND THE ETERNAL LORD HAS NOT SPOKEN TO THEM OR SENT THEM—— SHALL DIE! HOW DO YOU KNOW? WHEN THEY PROCLAIM AND IT DOES NOT COME TO PASS, YOU KNOW GOD HAS NOT SPOKEN TO THEM—-THEY SPEAK PRESUMPTUOUSLY—- YOU SHALL NOT FEAR THEM - Keith Hunt]
Deuteronomy 19
New King James Version
Three Cities of Refuge
19 “When the Lord your God has cut off the nations whose land the Lord your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, 2 you shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess. 3 You shall prepare roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, that any manslayer may flee there.
[COMING ITALICS AND BOLD LETTERS ARE MINE - Keith Hunt]
4 “And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor [a]unintentionally, not having hated him in time past— 5 as when a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live; 6 lest the avenger of blood, while his anger is hot, pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated the victim in time past. 7 Therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall separate three cities for yourself.’
8 “Now if the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you the land which He promised to give to your fathers, 9 and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three, 10 lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you.
11 “But if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises against him and strikes him mortally, so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities, 12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him over to the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall [b]put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
Property Boundaries
14 “You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
The Law Concerning Witnesses
15 “One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established.
16 If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, 17 then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. 18 And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother, 19 then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you. 20 And those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter they shall not again commit such evil among you.
[END OF MY ITALICS AND BOLD LETTERS - Keith Hunt]
21 Your eye shall not pity: life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
[ISRAEL WAS NEVER A NATION OF A GROUP OF ONE EYED PEOPLE, A GROUP OF ONE ARMED PEOPLE, A GROUP OF ONE LEG PEOPLE, GROUPS OF PEOPLE MISSING A THUMB, OR SOME FINGERS ETC. AS ALL BIBLE COMMENTARIES, INCLUDING JEWISH RABBIS, ADMIT THIS WAS JUSTICE COMPENSATION THAT WOULD BE SET BY THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL—- A SMALL FINGER IS NOT WORTH AS MUCH AS A THUMB ETC. - Keith Hunt]
Deuteronomy 20
New King James Version
Principles Governing Warfare
20 “When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. 2 So it shall be, when you are on the verge of battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people. 3 And he shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel: Today you are on the verge of battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not be afraid, and do not tremble or be terrified because of them; 4 for the Lord your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’
5 “Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying: ‘What man is there who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it. 6 Also what man is there who has planted a vineyard and has not eaten of it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man eat of it. 7 And what man is therewho is betrothed to a woman and has not married her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man marry her.’
8 “The officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, [a]lest the heart of his brethren faint like his heart.’ 9 And so it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
[PRETTY STRAIGHT-FORWARD INSTRUCTIONS. NOW GOING BACK INTO THE FORMATION OF ISRAEL, THEY NEEDED NOT TO BUILD ARMIES; GOD WOULD FIGHT FOR THEM AND DESTROY NATIONS WHO WANTED TO WAR WITH ISRAEL. WE SEE SOME EXAMPLES OF THIS IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (AFTER BEING DEVIDED INTO TWO KINGDOMS AFTER SOLOMON). AT TIMES THEY WERE TOO SMALL IN NUMBERS TO WIN A WAR. GOD RESCUED THEM BY DESTROYING THEIR ENEMIES - Keith Hunt]
10 “When you go near a city to fight against it, then proclaim an offer of peace to it. 11 And it shall be that if they accept your offer of peace, and open to you, then all the people who are found in it shall be placed under tribute to you, and serve you. 12 Now if the city will not make peace with you, but war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13 And when the Lord your God delivers it into your hands, you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword. 14 But the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and you shall eat the enemies’ plunder which the Lord your God gives you. 15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
[AGAIN PRETTY STRAIGHT-FORWARD INSTRUCTIONS - Keith Hunt]
16 “But of the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive, 17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, 18 lest they teach you to do according to all their [b]abominations which they have done for their gods, and you sin against the Lordyour God.
[THE PEOPLE OF THE PROMISED LAND WERE SO EVIL, SO WICKED, SO PERVERSE, THEY WERE TO BE EXPUNGED FROM THE EARTH. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THESE EVIL PEOPLE WILL BE RAISED TO LIFE IN THE GREAT WHITE THRONE PERIOD (REVELATION 20) AND BE GIVEN A CHANCE TO HAVE GOD'S WORD, AND FIND SALVATION, AS THOSE CALLED TODAY ARE GIVEN. SCROLLING BACK YOU WILL FIND MY STUDY CALLED "THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT" - Keith Hunt
19 “When you besiege a city for a long time, while making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; if you can eat of them, do not cut them down to use in the siege, for the tree of the field is man’s food. 20 Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, to build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.
[AGAIN STRAIGHT-FORWARD TO UNDERSTAND - Keith Hunt]
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