Deutéronome 17:3

3 allant après d'autres dieux pour les servir et se prosterner devant eux, après le soleil, la lune, ou toute l'armée des cieux. Ce n'est point là ce que j'ai commandé.

Deutéronome 17:3 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 17:3

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 besides the Creator:

and worshipped them;
by bowing down before them, praying to them, or ascribing their mercies and blessings to them, and giving them the glory of them:

either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven:
the two great luminaries, and the planets, constellations, and stars, any of them; which kind of idolatry very early obtained, and was in use at this time among the Heathens, and was an iniquity to be punished by the judge, ( Job 31:26-28 ) , which sin, though so strictly forbidden, the people of Israel sometimes fell into, ( 2 Kings 21:3 ) ( 23:4 )

which I have not commanded:
and which is a sufficient reason, in matters of worship, to avoid and abstain from anything, that God has not commanded it; for in things of that nature nothing should be done but what he has ordered, who is a jealous God, and will not suffer any to take upon them to direct what should be done as a religious service and duty; and if any are so presumptuous, they must expect it will be resented; see ( Isaiah 1:12 ) and especially with respect to the object of worship, as here, and which relate to things if not forbid expressly, yet tacitly, to do which was an abomination to the Lord.

Deutéronome 17:3 In-Context

1 Tu n'offriras en sacrifice à l'Eternel, ton Dieu, ni boeuf, ni agneau qui ait quelque défaut ou difformité; car ce serait en abomination à l'Eternel, ton Dieu.

2 Il se trouvera peut-être au milieu de toi dans l'une des villes que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, te donne, un homme ou une femme faisant ce qui est mal aux yeux de l'Eternel, ton Dieu, et transgressant son alliance;

3 allant après d'autres dieux pour les servir et se prosterner devant eux, après le soleil, la lune, ou toute l'armée des cieux. Ce n'est point là ce que j'ai commandé.

4 Dès que tu en auras connaissance, dès que tu l'auras appris, tu feras avec soin des recherches. La chose est-elle vraie, le fait est-il établi, cette abomination a-t-elle été commise en Israël,

5 alors tu feras venir à tes portes l'homme ou la femme qui sera coupable de cette mauvaise action, et tu lapideras ou puniras de mort cet homme ou cette femme.