申命记 16:20

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你要追求公正公義，好使你能存活，並且能承受耶和華你的　神賜給你的地作產業。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 要 追 求 至 公 至 义 ， 好 叫 你 存 活 ， 承 受 耶 和 华 ─ 你 　 神 所 赐 你 的 地 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Appoint judges and officers for your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you; they must judge the people fairly. ¹⁹ Do not judge unfairly or take sides. Do not let people pay you to make wrong decisions, because that kind of payment makes wise people seem blind, and it changes the words of good people. ²⁰ Always do what is right so that you will live and always have the land the Lord your God is giving you. ²¹ Do not set up a wooden Asherah idol next to the altar you build for the Lord your God, ²² and do not set up holy stone pillars. The Lord your God hates them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

That which: etc. Heb. Justice, justice, Deuteronomy 25:13-16, Micah 6:8, Philippians 4:8

live: Deuteronomy 4:1, Ezekiel 18:5, Ezekiel 18:9, Romans 10:5

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:14 - General 1 Thessalonians 5:15 - ever 1 Timothy 6:11 - and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That which is altogether just shalt thou follow,.... Or "justice", "justice" a, strict justice, and nothing else:

that thou mayest live and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee; that is, continue in the possession of it.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses are closely connected in subject with the following chapter, and introduce certain directions for the administration of justice and the carrying on of the civil government of the people in Canaan. During the lifetime of Moses, he himself, especially inspired and guided by God, was sufficient, with the aid of the subordinate judges (compare Exodus 18:13 ff), for the duties in question. But now that Moses was to be withdrawn, and the people would soon be scattered up and down the land of Canaan, regular and permanent provision must be made for civil and social order and good government.

Deuteronomy 16:21

A grove ... - Render, Thou shalt not plant for thee any tree as an idol: literally as an Asherah,” “i. e.” an image of Astarte or Ashtaroth, the Phoenician goddess (compare Deuteronomy 7:5 note, Deuteronomy 7:13 note). The word is rendered “grove” by the King James Version also in Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 12:3; Exodus 34:13; Judges 6:25, but cannot be maintained, for the word is connected with various verbs which are quite inapplicable to a grove. The wooden idol in question was the stem of a tree, stripped of its boughs, set upright in the ground, and rudely carved with emblems.