The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 12:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

To the appointed place all their sacrificial gifts and offerings were to be brought, and there they were to keep their holy feasts. The gifts are classified in groups.

1. Burnt offerings and sacrifices, the two principal kinds of altar offerings, with which meal offerings and drink offerings were united (Numbers 15:4, etc.).

2. Tithes and heave offerings (cf. Le 27:30-33; Numbers 18:21-24). The heave offerings are described as of your hand, either because offered by the offerer's own hand, or to indicate such gifts as were made off-hand (so to speak), voluntary offerings made in addition to the legal offerings from an immediate impulse of grateful emotion.

3. Vows and freewill offerings, sacrifices which were offered in consequence of vows or of spontaneous impulse (cf. Le Deuteronomy 7:16; Deuteronomy 22:21; Deuteronomy 23:1-25 :38; Numbers 15:3; Numbers 29:39).

4. Firstlings of their herds and of their flocks (cf. Exodus 13:2, Exodus 13:12, etc.; Numbers 18:15, etc.).

More for Deuteronomy 12:6

Continue with other commentaries and DiscipleDeck content connected to this verse, chapter, or topic.

Other commentaries

commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 12:1-32Regulations for Divine worship: specific rules embodying permanent principles. With this twelfth chapter an entirely new set of instructions begins. Up to this point the exhortations have been for the most part moral: n…Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 12:1-32EXPOSITION ANNOUNCEMENT OF PARTICULAR LAWS. CHAPTERS 12-26. Moses, having in his first address cast a glance at the events which had transpired between Sinai and the plains of Moab, and in his second recapitulated what…Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 12:4-14Centralization in worship. It is quite unnecessary that we should here enter upon the criticism which has been raging upon this important passage, as indicating something post-Mosaic. The directions in Exodus do not nec…Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 12:4-6The heathen placed their altars and offered their worship wherever they thought fit, according to their notions of the deity and his service; but Israel was not to do so unto Jehovah their God: he himself would choose t…Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryMatthew Henry on Deuteronomy 12:5-32The command to bring ALL the sacrifices to the door of the tabernacle, was now explained with reference to the promised land. As to moral service, then, as now, men might pray and worship every where, as they did in the…Matthew Henry commentaryWhere Sacrifices Must Be Offered; Ceremonial Observances; Cautions Against Idolatrous Rites. (b. c. 1451.)WHERE SACRIFICES MUST BE OFFERED; CEREMONIAL OBSERVANCES; CAUTIONS AGAINST IDOLATROUS RITES. (B. C. 1451.) There is not any one particular precept (as I remember) in all the law of Moses so largely pressed and inculcate…Matthew Henry commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 12:5-28Characteristic signs of Jehovah's worship. All the religious institutions of Moses were bulwarks against the idolatry of the period, and were admirably suited to the intellectual and moral condition of the people. The w…Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 12:5-9Public worship. A necessity of our spiritual life. Prompted by a community of privileges, interests, feelings, hopes, duties, temptations, aspirations; "One Lord, one faith, one baptism" (Ephesians 4:3-7). It is require…Joseph S. Exell and contributors