Teks -- Deuteronomy 12:5 (NET)

12:5 But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

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Wesley: Deu 12:5 - To put his name there

That is, to set up his worship there, and which he shall call by his name, as his house, or his dwelling-place; namely, where the ark should be, the tabernacle, or temple: which was first Shiloh, and then Jerusalem. There is not one precept in all the law of Moses, so largely inculcated as this, to bring all their sacrifices to that one altar. And how significant is, that appointment? They must keep to one place, in token of their belief. That there is one God, and one Mediator between God and man. It not only served to keep up the notion of the unity of the godhead, but the one only way of approach to God and communion with him in and by his son.

JFB: Deu 12:5 - unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose . . . to put his name there . . . thou shalt come

They were forbidden to worship either in the impure superstitious manner of the heathen, or in any of the places frequented by them. A particular place for the general rendezvous of all the tribes would be chosen by God Himself; and the choice of one common place for the solemn rites of religion was an act of divine wisdom, for the security of the true religion. It was admirably calculated to prevent the corruption which would otherwise have crept in from their frequenting groves and high hills--to preserve uniformity of worship and keep alive their faith in Him to whom all their sacrifices pointed. The place was successively Mizpeh, Shiloh, and especially Jerusalem. But in all the references made to it by Moses, the name is never mentioned. This studied silence was maintained partly lest the Canaanites within whose territories it lay might have concentrated their forces to frustrate all hopes of obtaining it; partly lest the desire of possessing a place of such importance might have become a cause of strife or rivalry amongst the Hebrew tribes, as about the appointment to the priesthood (Num. 16:1-30).

TSK: Deu 12:5 - But unto // habitation

But unto : Deu 12:11, Deu 16:2, Deu 26:2; Jos 9:27, Jos 18:1; 1Ki 8:16, 1Ki 8:20, 1Ki 8:29, 1Ki 14:21; 1Ch 22:1; 2Ch 7:12; Psa 78:68, Psa 87:2, Psa 87:3; Joh 4:20-22; Heb 12:22; Rev 14:1

habitation : Exo 15:2, Exo 25:22; Num 7:89; 1Ki 8:27; Psa 132:13, Psa 132:14; Isa 66:1, Isa 66:2; Act 7:48-50; Eph 2:20-22; Col 2:9

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Poole: Deu 12:5 - To put his name there

To put his name there i.e. to set up hiss worship there, or which he shall call by his name, as his house, or dwelling-place, &c., to wit, where the ark should be, the tabernacle, or temple; which was first Shiloh, Jos 18:1 , next and especially Jerusalem.

Haydock: Deu 12:5 - It

It, where the ark was to be kept. (Haydock) ---

Before the building of the temple, it was removed from one tribe or place to another. Jerusalem was thenceforward styled the city of the great king, Psalm xlvii. 1, 9.

Gill: Deu 12:5 - But unto the place which the Lord your God // shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there // even unto his habitation shall ye seek // and thither thou shall come

But unto the place which the Lord your God,.... The Targum of Jonathan is, that the Word of the Lord your God:

shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there; to place his tabernacle, set up his worship, take up his residence, and cause the Shechinah, or his divine Majesty, to dwell there, as the next clause explains it; out of what tribe it should be chosen, and where it should be, is not said. Maimomides ^b gives three reasons for it; he says there are three great mysteries why the place is not clearly, but obscurely mentioned;1) lest the Gentiles should seize upon it, and make war for the sake of it, supposing this place to be the end of the law; 2) lest they in whose hands the place then was should by all means waste and destroy it; 3) which is the chief, lest every tribe should desire to have it in its own lot and jurisdiction; and so strifes might arise among them on account of it, as happened to the priesthood:

even unto his habitation shall ye seek; the temple at Jerusalem is meant, where the Lord took up his dwelling, and whither men were to come and seek unto him by prayer and supplication for whatsoever they needed, and to inquire of him in matters doubtful, and they wanted counsel in:

and thither thou shall come: with sacrifices of every sort, where they were to be slain and offered to the Lord, and become acceptable to him, as is more largely declared in the following part of this chapter.