For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.
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For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.
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For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
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For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD; and because of these abominations the LORD thy God is driving them out from before thee.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 18:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 18:24 “ ‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
- Deuteronomy 9:4 Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
- Leviticus 18:27 (for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled),
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The people of the land which thou art going…
The people of the land which thou art going to possess, mentioned above, Deu 18:9.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For all that do these things are an abomination…
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; and especially it must be very abominable in the people of Israel to encourage such persons and practices, who had the knowledge of the true God, and him to consult on all occasions; had his law and testimony to attend unto as the rule of their conduct, and his prophets to advise with in matters of difficulty; see Isa 8:20.
and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee; as well as other sins mentioned in Lev 18:24 and, as before observed from Cicero, all nations have been addicted to the arts of divination here condemned.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 12. For all that do these things are an…
12. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord — An abomination, or a detestable thing to Jehovah, is every one who doeth these things; for the classes of diviners and magicians enumerated were in the service of the heathen gods, and ministered in impure rites.
And because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee — The nations of Canaan had become so corrupt through their degrading forms of worship that Jehovah is about to dispossess them for the sake of his covenant people.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. abomination] See Deu_18:9.
12. abomination] See Deu_18:9.
unto the Lord] Sam. LXX add thy God, and LXX B omits this in next clause.
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doth drive them out] Heb. is to dispossess them, see on Deu_9:5; cp. Deu_4:38.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain All who practiced such arts were an abomination unto…
All who practiced such arts were an abomination unto the Lord, and his people are forbidden to have anything to do with them. They are connected here with the Moloch-worship, because of the intimate relation between idolatry and the use of magical arts; and Moloch-worship is specially mentioned, probably because it was the form of idolatry with which the Israelites were most likely to come in contact, both where they then were and also in Canaan; not, as Keil suggests, because that form "was more intimately connected with soothsaying and magic than any other description of idolatry an assertion for which there is no evidence.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 driving them out
driving them out
Here "them" refers to the people already living in Canaan.
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For these nations
Here "nations" stands for the people groups that live in Canaan. AT: "For these people groups" (See: Metonymy)
these nations that you will dispossess
"these nations whose land you will take"
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cast out
blameless
nation
sorcerer
divination
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