Deuteronomy 17 · Geneva Bible Notes (1560) · Commentaries (Good Books Free)

¹ ^a Thou shalt not serue God for facions sake, as hypocrites do.

¹ ^! The punishment of the idolater.

² ^b Shewing that the crime can not be excused by the frailtie of the persone.

³ ^c Whereby he condemneth all religion and serving of God which he hathe not commanded.

⁷ ^d Whereby they declared that they testified the trueth.

⁷ ^e To signifie a commune consent to mainteine Gods honour and true religion.

⁹ ^f Who shal giue sentence as the Priests consel him by the Lawe of God

⁹ ^! Hard controuersies are broght to the Priest and the judge.

¹¹ ^g Thou shalt obey their sentence that the controuersie may haue and end.

¹² ^h So long as he is the true minister of God, and pronounceth according to his worde.

¹² ^! The Contemner must dye.

¹⁵ ⁱ Who is not of thy nacion, lest he change true religion into idolatrie, and bring thee to slauerie.

¹⁵ ^! The election of the King.

¹⁶ ^! What things he oght to auoide.

¹⁶ ^k To reuenge their injuries, and to take them of their best horses, {1 King 10,28}.

¹⁷ ^l From the Lawe of God.

¹⁸ ^! And what he oght to imbrace.

¹⁸ ^m Meaning the Deuteronomie.

¹⁸ ⁿ He shal cause it to be writ by them, or, he shal write it by their example.

²⁰ ^o Whereby is ment, that Kings oght to loue their subjects, as nature bindeth one brother to loue another.

Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Deuteronomy 17