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Deuteronomium 16:21

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21 Gij zult u geen bos planten van enig geboomte, bij het altaar des HEEREN, uws Gods, dat gij u maken zult.

Deuteronomium 16:21 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 16:21

Thou shall not plant thee a grove of any trees
Of any sort of trees, as oaks or any other; not but that it was lawful to plant trees and groves of them, but not for a religious or idolatrous use: particularly

near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee;
as the Heathens did near their altars, lest it should be thought to be done for a like superstitious and idolatrous use; which evil the Jews sometimes fell into in the times of wicked reigns, and which their good and pious kings removed and destroyed; see ( 2 Kings 18:4 ) ( 21:3 ) ( 2 Kings 23:4 2 Kings 23:7 2 Kings 23:14 2 Kings 23:15 ) and Hecataeus F2, an Heathen historian, relates of the city of Jerusalem, that there were there no image, nor plantation, nor grove, nor any such thing.


FOOTNOTES:

F2 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 4. p. 408.
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Deuteronomium 16:21 In-Context

19 Gij zult het gericht niet buigen; gij zult het aangezicht niet kennen; ook zult gij geen geschenk nemen; want het geschenk verblindt de ogen der wijzen, en verkeert de woorden der rechtvaardigen.
20 Gerechtigheid, gerechtigheid zult gij najagen; opdat gij leeft, en erfelijk bezit het land, dat u de HEERE, uw God, geven zal.
21 Gij zult u geen bos planten van enig geboomte, bij het altaar des HEEREN, uws Gods, dat gij u maken zult.
22 Ook zult gij u geen opgericht beeld stellen, hetwelk de HEERE, uw God, haat.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.

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