Ulangan 16:21

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

"Janganlah engkau menanam sesuatu pohon sebagai tiang berhala di samping mezbah TUHAN, Allahmu, mezbah yang akan kaubuat bagimu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
"Janganlah engkau menanam sesuatu pohon sebagai tiang berhala di samping mezbah TUHAN, Allahmu, mezbah yang akan kaubuat bagimu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Jangan kamu menanamkan pokok atau pohon kayu hampir dengan mezbah Tuhan, Allahmu, yang akan kamu bangunkan.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Iudges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy cities which the Lorde thy God geueth thee throughout thy tribes, and they shall iudge the people with iust iudgement. ¹⁹ Wrest not thou the lawe, nor knowe any person, neither take any rewarde: for giftes do blinde the eyes of the wise, & peruert the wordes of the righteous. ²⁰ That which is iust and ryght shalt thou folowe, that thou mayst lyue, and enioy the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee. ²¹ Thou shalt plant no groue of any trees neare vnto the aulter of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee. ²² Thou shalt set thee vp no piller: which the Lorde thy God hateth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 34:13, Judges 3:7, 1 Kings 14:15, 1 Kings 16:33, 2 Kings 17:16, 2 Kings 21:3, 2 Chronicles 33:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:33 - Beersheba Leviticus 26:1 - Ye shall Deuteronomy 12:4 - General 2 Kings 17:10 - groves

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall not plant thee a grove of any trees,.... Of any sort of trees, as oaks or any other; not but that it was lawful to plant trees and groves of them, but not for a religious or idolatrous use: particularly

near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee; as the Heathens did near their altars, lest it should be thought to be done for a like superstitious and idolatrous use; which evil the Jews sometimes fell into in the times of wicked reigns, and which their good and pious kings removed and destroyed; see 2 Kings 18:4 and Hecataeus b, an Heathen historian, relates of the city of Jerusalem, that there were there no image, nor plantation, nor grove, nor any such thing.

b Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 4. p. 408.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 16:21. Thou shalt not plant thee a grove, &c. — We have already seen that groves were planted about idol temples for the purpose of the obscene worship performed in them. (Deuteronomy 12:3; Deuteronomy 12:3.) On this account God would have no groves or thickets about his altar, that there might be no room for suspicion that any thing contrary to the strictest purity was transacted there. Every part of the Divine worship was publicly performed, for the purpose of general edification.