申命记 17:18

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

“他登上了國位的時候，就要把利未支派的祭司面前的律法書，為自己抄錄一份副本。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 登 了 国 位 ， 就 要 将 祭 司 利 未 人 面 前 的 这 律 法 书 ， 为 自 己 抄 录 一 本 ，

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, taking it as your own and living in it, you will say, "Let's appoint a king over us like the nations all around us." ¹⁵ Be sure to appoint over you the king the Lord your God chooses. He must be one of your own people. Do not appoint as your king a foreigner who is not a fellow Israelite. ¹⁶ The king must not have too many horses for himself, and he must not send people to Egypt to get more horses, because the Lord has told you, "Don't return that way again." ¹⁷ The king must not have many wives, or his heart will be led away from God. He must not have too much silver and gold. ¹⁸ When he becomes king, he should write a copy of the teachings on a scroll for himself, a copy taken from the priests and Levites. ¹⁹ He should keep it with him all the time and read from it every day of his life. Then he will learn to respect the Lord his God, and he will obey all the teachings and commands. ²⁰ He should not think he is better than his fellow Israelites, and he must not stop obeying the law in any way so that he and his descendants may rule the kingdom for a long time.

Bible Verse Review
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that he shall: 2 Kings 11:12

a copy: Mishneh hattorah hazzoth, "a duplicate of this law." translated by the Septuagint, פן הוץפוסןםןליןם פןץפן, this Deuteronomy. From this version, both the Vulgate and all the modern versions have taken the name of this book; and from it the original word, the Jews call it Mishneh.

out of that which: Deuteronomy 31:9, Deuteronomy 31:25, Deuteronomy 31:26, 2 Kings 22:8, 2 Chronicles 34:15

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 1:5 - to declare Deuteronomy 4:44 - General Deuteronomy 31:24 - writing the words Joshua 1:8 - book 1 Kings 1:13 - sit 1 Kings 2:3 - written 2 Kings 22:10 - the king 2 Chronicles 23:11 - the testimony 2 Chronicles 34:14 - the law 2 Chronicles 34:30 - he read Ezra 7:14 - according Ezra 10:14 - our rulers Nehemiah 8:2 - priest Psalms 19:7 - law Psalms 119:9 - by taking Psalms 119:24 - my counsellors Psalms 122:5 - there Proverbs 16:10 - A divine sentence John 5:39 - Search Acts 8:28 - and sitting Acts 26:3 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 4:12
You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth."

Genesis 4:14
Today you have forced me to stop working the ground, and now I must hide from you. I must wander around on the earth, and anyone who meets me can kill me."

Psalms 4:6
Many people ask, "Who will give us anything good?" Lord , be kind to us.

Psalms 41:12
Because I am innocent, you support me and will let me be with you forever.

Isaiah 59:2
It is your evil that has separated you from your God. Your sins cause him to turn away from you, so he does not hear you.

Jeremiah 32:39
I will make them truly want to be one people with one goal. They will truly want to worship me all their lives, for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

Acts 2:39
This promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away. It is for everyone the Lord our God calls to himself."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom,.... When he is settled on it, and is even amidst all the pomp and glory of it: that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book; which copy the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions interpret of this book of Deuteronomy, which is a summary abstract and repetition of the various laws of God to the people of Israel; though the Jewish writers commonly understand it of the whole Pentateuch, the five books of Moses; which perhaps may be enlarging it too much, as it would be reducing it to too little to restrain it to this law concerning kings, as the Targum of Jonathan. The word "Mishneh", rendered "copy", signifies "double"; hence some take it to mean a double exemplar or copy of the law he was obliged to write out, whereby it would be the more imprinted on his mind, and he would be furnished with it for his use at home and abroad, as the Jewish writers observe; so Jarchi by the copy understands two books of the law, one to be left in his treasury, the other to go out and in with him. The same is said in the Talmud m, and with which Maimonides n agrees, whose words are,

"at the time a king sits on the throne of his kingdom, he writes for himself a book of the law, besides what his fathers left him; and he copies it out of the book of the court by the order of the sanhedrim of seventy one; if his fathers have left him none, or it is lost, he writes two books of the law, one he leaves in the house of his treasures, which he is commanded, as everyone of Israel is, and the second never departs from him;''

but one may seem sufficient on all occasions, and for all purposes; and this was to be wrote out of that which is before the priests and Levites; the original copy of it, which was deposited in the side of the ark; see Deuteronomy 31:26.

m T. Bab. Sanhedrn, fol. 21. 2. n Ut supra (Maimon. Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 2.), sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is in striking consistency with the dignity which everywhere throughout the Mosaic legislation surrounds the chosen people of God, that even if they will be “like as all the nations about” Deuteronomy 17:14, and be governed by a king, care should nevertheless be taken that he shall be no Oriental despot. He is to be of no royal caste, but “one from among thy brethren” Deuteronomy 17:15; he is to bear himself as a kind of “primus inter pares,” his heart “not being lifted up above his brethren” Deuteronomy 17:20; he is, like his subjects, to be bound by the fundamental laws and institutions of the nation, and obliged, as they were, to do his duty in his station of life with constant reference thereto. The spirit of the text is that of Matthew 23:9.

A copy of this law - The whole Pentateuch, or, at any rate, the legal portion of the Pentateuch.

A book ... before the priests the Levites - Compare the marginal reference.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 17:18. He shall write him a copy of this law — משנה התורה הזאת mishneh hattorah hazzoth, an iteration or duplicate of this law; translated by the Septuagint, το δευτερονομιον τουτο this deuteronomy. From this version both the Vulgate Latin and all the modern versions have taken the name of this book; and from the original word the Jews call it Mishneh. See the preface to this book.

Out of that which is before the priests the Levites — It is likely this means, that the copy which the king was to write out was to be taken from the autograph kept in the tabernacle before the Lord, from which, as a standard, every copy was taken and with which doubtless every copy was compared; and it is probable that the priests and Levites had the revising of every copy that was taken off, in order to prevent errors from creeping into the sacred text.