申命记 27:15

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

“‘製造耶和華厭惡的雕像或鑄像，工人手中做的，並且在暗處設立的，那人必受咒詛。’眾民都要應聲說：‘阿們。’

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
有 人 制 造 耶 和 华 所 憎 恶 的 偶 像 ， 或 雕 刻 ， 或 铸 造 ， 就 是 工 匠 手 所 做 的 ， 在 暗 中 设 立 ， 那 人 必 受 咒 诅 ！ 百 姓 都 要 答 应 说 ： 阿 们 ！

Contextual Overview

¹¹ That day Moses also gave the people this command: ¹² When you cross the Jordan River, these tribes must stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin. ¹³ And these tribes must stand on Mount Ebal to announce the curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. ¹⁴ The Levites will say to all the people of Israel in a loud voice: ¹⁵ "Anyone will be cursed who makes an idol or statue and secretly sets it up, because the Lord hates the idols people make." Then all the people will say, "Amen!" ¹⁶ "Anyone will be cursed who dishonors his father or mother." Then all the people will say, "Amen!" ¹⁷ "Anyone will be cursed who moves the stone that marks a neighbor's border." Then all the people will say, "Amen!" ¹⁸ "Anyone will be cursed who sends a blind person down the wrong road." Then all the people will say, "Amen!" ¹⁹ "Anyone will be cursed who is unfair to foreigners, orphans, or widows." Then all the people will say, "Amen!" ²⁰ "A man will be cursed who has sexual relations with his father's wife, because it is a dishonor to his father." Then all the people will say, "Amen!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cursed be: Deuteronomy 28:16-19, Genesis 9:25, 1 Samuel 26:19, Jeremiah 11:3

maketh: Deuteronomy 4:16-23, Deuteronomy 5:8, Exodus 20:4, Exodus 20:23, Exodus 32:1-4, Exodus 34:17, Leviticus 19:4, Leviticus 26:1, Isaiah 44:9, Isaiah 44:10, Isaiah 44:17, Hosea 13:2, Hosea 13:3

an abomination: Deuteronomy 29:17, 1 Kings 11:5-7, 2 Kings 23:13, 2 Chronicles 33:2, Isaiah 44:19, Ezekiel 7:20, Daniel 11:31, Matthew 24:15, Revelation 17:4, Revelation 17:5

and putteth: Genesis 31:19, Genesis 31:34, 2 Kings 17:19, Psalms 44:20, Psalms 44:21, Jeremiah 23:24, Ezekiel 8:7-12, Ezekiel 14:4

And all: Numbers 5:22, Jeremiah 11:5, Jeremiah 28:6, Matthew 6:13, 1 Corinthians 14:16

Amen: To each of the curses the people were to say Amen, as well as to the blessings; to denote a profession of their faith in the truth of them, that they were the real declarations of the wrath of God; and an acknowledgment of the equity of these curses. It was such an imprecation upon themselves, as strongly obliged them to have nothing to do with those evil practices on which the curse is entailed. We read of those who entered a curse to walk in God's law. Nehemiah 10:29. All the people, by saying this Amen, became bound one for another, that they would observe God's laws, by which every man was obliged, as far as he could, to prevent his neighbour from breaking these laws, and to reprove those that had offended, lest they should bear sin and the curse for them.

Reciprocal: Leviticus 18:27 - General Deuteronomy 27:26 - Cursed Deuteronomy 28:15 - all these curses Deuteronomy 29:20 - all the curses Deuteronomy 29:27 - all the curses Judges 18:30 - set up 1 Samuel 14:24 - Cursed 1 Kings 1:36 - Amen 1 Kings 11:7 - abomination 2 Kings 17:9 - secretly 1 Chronicles 16:36 - said 2 Chronicles 15:8 - abominable idols 2 Chronicles 32:19 - the work Job 5:3 - cursed Psalms 41:13 - Amen Psalms 78:58 - with Psalms 97:7 - Confounded Psalms 119:21 - cursed Isaiah 34:5 - the people Isaiah 41:24 - an abomination Isaiah 44:13 - that it may Jeremiah 4:1 - put away Lamentations 3:65 - thy Daniel 9:11 - the curse Zechariah 5:3 - the curse Matthew 25:41 - ye cursed Romans 9:5 - Amen Galatians 1:8 - let

Cross-References

Luke 15:22
But the father said to his servants, ‘Hurry! Bring the best clothes and put them on him. Also, put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

Luke 20:46
"Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around wearing fancy clothes, and they love for people to greet them with respect in the marketplaces. They love to have the most important seats in the synagogues and at feasts.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten image,.... The blessings and the form of them are not recorded, because they were not to be had from the law, and through obedience to it; and therefore there is a profound silence about them, to put men upon seeking for them elsewhere, and which are only to be had in Christ, especially spiritual ones; but we may suppose they were delivered in the same form, and respecting the same things as the curses, only just the reverse of them; as, "blessed is the man that maketh not any graven image", c. The order of both is given in the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem :-. This curse respects the breach of the first table of the law, and everything included in it relating to the nature and being of God, the worship of him, and the honour of his name; to do anything contrary to which, particularly to make an image, whether graven or molten, to worship, is

an abomination to the Lord; and therefore subjects a man to the curse of his law, it being

the work of the hands of the craftsman; and therefore it must be a most stupid thing to ascribe deity to it, and worship it as such:

and putteth [it] in [a] secret [place]; though it is not set in a place of public worship, or the house, so as to be seen by everyone; but in some retired place, in a secret chamber, and there worshipped, or kept to look at with pleasure; which would be a temptation, and lead on to idolatry, and therefore is forbidden, and to be guarded against: now one that committed idolatry, or anything like it, in the most secret manner, was liable to this curse; for the omniscient God, the legislator, knows what is done in the most private manner, and will resent and revenge every affront and injury to his honour and glory. And Aben Ezra observes, that all that follow respect things done in a secret way, and which were not cognizable by the civil magistrate, and therefore to deter persons from them these curses were pronounced:

and all the people shall answer and say Amen; even those on the one mountain as on the other, thereby approving of, and assenting to, the justice of the sentence pronounced.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Joshua 8:32-35. The solemnity was apparently designed only for the single occasion on which it actually took place.

Deuteronomy 27:12, Deuteronomy 27:13

The tribes appointed to stand on Gerizim to bless the people all sprang from the two wives of Jacob, Leah and Rachel. All the four tribes which sprang from the handmaids Zilpah and Bilhah are located on Ebal. But in order, as it would seem, to effect an equal division, two tribes are added to the latter from the descendants of the wives, that of Reuben, probably because he forfeited his primogeniture Genesis 49:4; and of Zebulun, apparently because he was the youngest son of Leah.

The transaction presents itself as a solemn renewal of the covenant made by God with Abraham and Isaac, but more especially with Jacob and his family. Accordingly the genealogical basis of the “twelve patriarchs” (compare Acts 7:12; Revelation 7:4 ff), the sons of Jacob, is here assumed. The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh are merged in the name of Joseph, their father; and Levi regains on this occasion his place collaterally with the others. “The Levites” of Deuteronomy 27:14 are no doubt “the priests the Levites” (compareJoshua 8:33; Joshua 8:33), in whom the ministerial character attaching to the tribe was more particularly manifested. It is noteworthy that the group of tribes which stood on Gerizim far exceeded the other in numbers and in importance, thus perhaps indicating that even by the Law the blessing should at length prevail.

Deuteronomy 27:15

The “Amen” attested the conviction of the utterers that the sentences to which they responded were true, just, and certain; so in Numbers 5:22, and in our own Commination Office, which is modelled after this ordinance of Moses.

Deuteronomy 27:15-26

Twelve curses against transgressions of the covenant. The first eleven are directed against special sins which are selected by way of example, the last comprehensively sums up in general terms and condemns all and every offence against God’s Law. Compare the marginal references.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 27:15. Cursed be the man, c. — Other laws, previously made, had prohibited all these things and penal sanctions were necessarily understood; but here God more openly declares that he who breaks them is cursed - falls under the wrath and indignation of his Maker and Judge. Exodus 20:4.