© John Stevenson, 2010 Deuteronomy 16-26. 1:1Preamble 1:6 Historical Prologue 5:1Stipulations 12:1...

© John Stevenson, 2010

Deuteronomy 16-26Deuteronomy 16-26

1:11:1 PreamblePreamble

1:61:6 Historical PrologueHistorical Prologue

5:15:1StipulationsStipulations

12:112:1

Ten Ten CommandmentsCommandmentsRelated Related CommandmentsCommandments

27:127:1 Blessings & CursingsBlessings & Cursings

31:131:1 SuccessionSuccession

5:15:1 Ten CommandmentsTen Commandments

12:612:6Warnings Warnings again idolatryagain idolatry

14:114:1

Related to Related to the first the first

four four commandscommands

16:1816:18

Laws about Laws about worshipworship

19:119:1

21:1521:15

Ceremonial Ceremonial righteousness righteousness (toward God)(toward God)

Qualifications Qualifications of leadersof leaders

War & PeaceWar & Peace

Governmental Governmental righteousnessrighteousness

Practical Practical righteousnessrighteousness

Laws of Laws of LivingLiving

Related to Related to the last six the last six commandscommands

Deuteronomy 16:18Deuteronomy 16:18You shall appoint for yourself

judges and officers in all your towns which the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Deuteronomy 16:19Deuteronomy 16:19You shall not distort justice; you

shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 16:20Deuteronomy 16:20Justice, and only justice, you

shall pursue, that you may live and possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 16:21-22Deuteronomy 16:21-22You shall not

plant for yourself an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourself. 22 You shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar which the LORD your God hates.

……detestable detestable sacrifices (17:1)sacrifices (17:1)

……idolatryidolatry(17:2-5)(17:2-5)

……idolatryidolatry(16:21-22)(16:21-22)

Avoid…Avoid…

Appoint just Appoint just judgesjudges

(16:18-20)(16:18-20)

Deuteronomy 17:2-3Deuteronomy 17:2-3If there is found in your midst, in

any of your towns, which the LORD your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, by transgressing His covenant, 3 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, which I have not commanded,

Deuteronomy 17:4-5Deuteronomy 17:4-5…and if it is told you and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire thoroughly. Behold, if it is true and the thing certain that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, 5 then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil deed to your gates, that is, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them to death.

Deuteronomy 17:6Deuteronomy 17:6On the evidence of two

witnesses or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.

Deuteronomy 17:7Deuteronomy 17:7The hand of the witnesses shall

be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Deuteronomy 17:8Deuteronomy 17:8If any case is too difficult for you

to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.

Deuteronomy 17:9Deuteronomy 17:9So you shall come to the

Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the verdict in the case.

What is to be What is to be the Christian’s the Christian’s relationship to relationship to government?government?

Daniel 4:17Daniel 4:17Luke 3:12-14Luke 3:12-14

Romans 13:1-7Romans 13:1-71 Peter 2:13-151 Peter 2:13-15

Deuteronomy 17:14Deuteronomy 17:14When you enter the land which

the LORD your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, “I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,”

Deuteronomy 17:15Deuteronomy 17:15…you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your country-man.

Deuteronomy 17:16-17Deuteronomy 17:16-17Moreover, he shall not multiply

horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the LORD has said to you, “You shall never again return that way.” 17 He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.

Deuteronomy 17:18Deuteronomy 17:18Now it shall come about when

he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.

Deuteronomy 17:19-20Deuteronomy 17:19-20It 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, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes, 20 that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.

Laws Laws about about

Prophets Prophets (18:15-22)(18:15-22)

Laws Laws against against Pagan Pagan

Worship Worship (18:9-14)(18:9-14)

Laws for Laws for the the

Levites Levites (18:1-8)(18:1-8)

Deuteronomy 18:15Deuteronomy 18:15The LORD your God will raise

up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.

Deuteronomy 18:16Deuteronomy 18:16This is according to all that you

asked of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.”

Deuteronomy 18:17-18Deuteronomy 18:17-18The LORD said to me, “They

have spoken well. 18 I will raise up a prophet from among their country-men like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

Deuteronomy 18:19-20Deuteronomy 18:19-20It shall come about that who-

ever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him. 20 But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.'

Deuteronomy 18:21-22Deuteronomy 18:21-22You may say in your heart,

“How will 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 come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuous-ly; you shall not be afraid of him.

Justice & the Cities of RefugeJustice & the Cities of Refuge

Regarding Regarding witnesseswitnesses(19:15-21)(19:15-21)

Boundary Boundary markersmarkers(19:14)(19:14)

Premeditated Premeditated murdermurder

(19:11-13)(19:11-13)

Unintentional Unintentional manslaughter manslaughter

(19:4-10)(19:4-10)

Establishment of Establishment of the cities of refuge the cities of refuge

(19:1-3)(19:1-3)

Deuteronomy 19:15Deuteronomy 19:15A single witness shall not rise

up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin which he has committed; on the evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.

Why “two or three?”

Deuteronomy 19:16-17Deuteronomy 19:16-17If a malicious witness rises up

against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing, 17 then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days.

Deuteronomy 19:18-19Deuteronomy 19:18-19The judges shall investigate

thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has accused his brother falsely, 19 then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 19:21Deuteronomy 19:21Thus you shall not show pity:

life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

How does this relate to the command of Jesus to

turn the other cheek?

Trusting Trusting God in God in

times of times of warwar

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Military Military exemptionsexemptions

5-95-9 10-1510-15 16-1816-18WarfareWarfare

Military exemptions to the Military exemptions to the man who…man who…

• Has built a new house and has not Has built a new house and has not dedicated it (20:5).dedicated it (20:5).

• Has planted a vineyard and has not Has planted a vineyard and has not begun to enjoy its fruit (20:6).begun to enjoy its fruit (20:6).

• Is engaged to a woman and has not Is engaged to a woman and has not married her (20:7).married her (20:7).

• Is afraid an faint-hearted (20:8).Is afraid an faint-hearted (20:8).



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5-95-9

Terms of Terms of peace peace

given to given to those who those who surrendersurrender

10-1510-15

Complete Complete destruction destruction

to those to those living in the living in the

landland

16-1816-18WarfareWarfare

Deuteronomy 20:16Deuteronomy 20:16Only in the cities of these

peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

Deuteronomy 20:17-19Deuteronomy 20:17-19But you shall utterly destroy

them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded you, 18 so that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would sin against the LORD your God.



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5-95-9

Terms of Terms of peace peace

given to given to those who those who surrendersurrender

10-1510-15

Complete Complete destruction destruction

to those to those living in the living in the

landland

16-1816-18WarfareWarfare

19-2019-20

Preservation of fruit treesPreservation of fruit trees

Rules of Rules of other other killing killing

(21:1-9)(21:1-9)

Rules of Rules of Warfare Warfare

(20)(20)

Deuteronomy 21:1-2Deuteronomy 21:1-2If a slain person is found lying in

the open country in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, and it is not known who has struck him, 2 then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.

Deuteronomy 21:3-4Deuteronomy 21:3-4It shall be that the city which is

nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke; 4 and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

Deuteronomy 21:5Deuteronomy 21:5Then the priests, the sons of

Levi, shall come near, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the name of the LORD; and every dispute and every assault shall be settled by them.

Deuteronomy 21:6-7Deuteronomy 21:6-7All the elders of that city which

is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; 7 and they shall answer and say, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.”

Deuteronomy 21:8-9Deuteronomy 21:8-9…“Forgive Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, O LORD, and do not place the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.” And the bloodguiltiness shall be forgiven them. 9 So you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

5:15:1 Ten CommandmentsTen Commandments

12:612:6Warnings Warnings again idolatryagain idolatry

14:114:1

Related to Related to the first the first

four four commandscommands

16:1816:18

Laws about Laws about worshipworship

19:119:1

21:1521:15

Ceremonial Ceremonial righteousness righteousness (toward God)(toward God)

Qualifications Qualifications of leadersof leaders

War & PeaceWar & Peace

Governmental Governmental righteousnessrighteousness

Practical Practical righteousnessrighteousness

Laws of Laws of LivingLiving

Related to Related to the last six the last six commandscommands

Deuteronomy 21:15-17Deuteronomy 21:15-17

Deuteronomy 21:15-16Deuteronomy 21:15-16If a man has two wives, the one

loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, 16 then it shall be in the day he wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn.

Deuteronomy 21:17Deuteronomy 21:17But he shall acknowledge the

firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right of the firstborn.

Deuteronomy 21:18-19Deuteronomy 21:18-19If any man has a stubborn and

rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them, 19 then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

Deuteronomy 21:20-21Deuteronomy 21:20-21They shall say to the elders of

his city, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard.” 21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear of it and fear.

Deuteronomy 21:22-23Deuteronomy 21:22-23If a man has committed a sin

worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, 23 his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 22:5Deuteronomy 22:5

Deuteronomy 22:5Deuteronomy 22:5A woman shall not wear man's

clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 22:8Deuteronomy 22:8

Deuteronomy 22:8Deuteronomy 22:8When you build a new house,

you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.

Deuteronomy 22:9-11Deuteronomy 22:9-11You shall not sow your vineyard

with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled.

10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

11 You shall not wear a material mixed of wool and linen together.

Deuteronomy 23:21-22Deuteronomy 23:21-22When you make a vow to the

LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, and the LORD your God will surely require it of you. 22 However, if you refrain from vowing, it would not be sin in you.

Deuteronomy 23:23Deuteronomy 23:23You shall be careful to perform

what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God, what you have promised.

Deuteronomy 23:24-25Deuteronomy 23:24-25When you enter your neighbor’s

vineyard, then you may eat grapes until you are fully satisfied, but you shall not put any in your basket. 25 When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain.

Deuteronomy 24:1-2Deuteronomy 24:1-2When a man takes a wife and

marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, 2 and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife,

Deuteronomy 24:3Deuteronomy 24:3…and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,

Deuteronomy 24:4Deuteronomy 24:4…then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 24:5Deuteronomy 24:5When a man takes a new wife,

he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

Deuteronomy 24:6Deuteronomy 24:6No one shall take a handmill or

an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:7Deuteronomy 24:7If a man is caught kidnapping

any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 24:16Deuteronomy 24:16Fathers shall not be put to death

for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.

Deuteronomy 25:4Deuteronomy 25:4You shall not muzzle the ox

while he is threshing.

Deuteronomy 25:13-15Deuteronomy 25:13-15You shall not have in your bag

differing weights, a large and a small. 14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 15 You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

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