Deuteronomy 12

Treated in 6 passages across the library.

  • 12:28 Be careful to obey all these words I am commanding you, so that all may go well with you and your children after you forever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God. 2
  • 12:31 You must not worship the LORD your God in that way, because for their gods they have done every detestable thing that the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as offerings to their gods. 2
  • 12:23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. 1
  • 12:32 Be careful to do everything I command you. Do not add to it or take anything away from it. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Real Questions – Book 1 · Ochorus Originals

    Why Is the Old Testament So Violent? cites Deuteronomy 12:31

    …“They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods” (Deuteronomy 12:31). When God judged them, He was judging a culture that had sacrificed children for…

  2. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 8 — Exposition of the Moral Law cites Deut 12:28–32

    …I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it,” (Deut 12:28–32). Previously, after asking “what nation is there so great, that has statutes and…

  3. The Big Story · Ochorus Originals

    The Lamb God Provides cites Deuteronomy 12:31

    …condemns that practice in the strongest terms, calling it something “the LORD hates” (Deuteronomy 12:31). So what is going on here? Three things help. First, the writer tells us at the very…

  4. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Month of January cites Deut. 12:28

    …for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God." Deut. 12:28 Though salvation is not by the works of the law, yet the blessings which are promised to…

  5. The Way Into the Holiest · F. B. Meyer

    The Blood of Christ cites Deut. xii. 23

    …of inspiration, "the blood is the life"; "the life of the flesh is in the blood" (Deut. xii. 23; Lev. xvii. 11). We know that the red corpuscles of the blood play an important function…

  6. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 10 — Of the Power of Making Laws cites Deut. 12:32

    …I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it” (Deut. 12:32). And in another place, “Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be…