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Ulangan 17:17

Juga janganlah ia mempunyai banyak isteri, supaya hatinya jangan menyimpang; emas dan perakpun janganlah ia kumpulkan terlalu banyak.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - King;   Polygamy;   Rulers;   Solomon;   Thompson Chain Reference - David;   Foes of the Home;   Home;   Polygamy;   The Topic Concordance - Government;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Gold;   Kings;   Tribute;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Concubine;   King;   Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   King, Christ as;   King, Kingship;   Land (of Israel);   Law;   Leadership;   Samuel, First and Second, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - David;   King;   Law;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Capital Punishment;   Concubine;   King, Kingship;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Family;   King;   Marriage;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Concubines;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gold;   King;   Law in the Old Testament;   Law, Judicial;   Marriage;   Nathan (1);   Relationships, Family;   Theocracy;   Woman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agrippa Ii;   Exodus, Book of;   Government;   Law, Reading from the;   Marriage;   Monogamy;   Nomism;   Sanhedrin;   Solomon;   Theocracy;   Torah;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Juga janganlah ia mempunyai banyak isteri, supaya hatinya jangan menyimpang; emas dan perakpun janganlah ia kumpulkan terlalu banyak.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dan lagi jangan ditaruhnya bagi dirinya banyak orang perempuan, supaya hatinya jangan disimpangkan, dan jangan ditaruhnya bagi dirinya banyak emas perak.

Contextual Overview

14 When thou art come vnto the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee, and enioyest it, and dwellest therin, and if thou shalt say, I wyll set a king ouer me, lyke as all the nations that are about me: 15 Then thou shalt make hym king ouer thee whom the Lorde thy God shall choose: Euen one from among thy brethren shalt thou make kyng ouer thee, and thou mayest not set a straunger ouer thee, which is not of thy brethren. 16 But he shall not multiplie horses to hym selfe, nor bryng the people agayne to Egypt to increase the number of horses: forasmuch as the Lorde hath sayde vnto you, ye shall hencefoorth go no more agayne that way. 17 Also he ought not to multiplie wyues to him selfe, lest his heart turne away, neither shall he gather hym siluer and golde to much. 18 And when he is set vpon the seate of his kingdome, he shall write hym out a copie of this lawe in a booke before the priestes the Leuites: 19 And it shalbe with hym, and he ought to reade therin all the dayes of his life, that he may learne to feare the Lorde his God, and to kepe all the wordes of this lawe and these ordinaunces, for to do them: 20 And that his heart arise not aboue his brethren, and that he turne not from the commaundement to the right hand or to the left: but that he may prolong his dayes in his kyngdome, he and his children in the middes of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

multiply wives: Genesis 2:24, 2 Samuel 3:2-5, 1 Kings 11:1-4, Nehemiah 13:26, Malachi 2:15, Matthew 19:5

neither shall he: 1 Kings 10:21, Psalms 62:10, Proverbs 30:8, Proverbs 30:9, Matthew 6:19, Matthew 6:20, Matthew 13:22, Matthew 19:23, Matthew 19:24, Luke 12:15, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 30:17 - heart Judges 8:30 - many wives 2 Samuel 5:13 - General 1 Kings 11:4 - his wives 1 Chronicles 14:3 - took 2 Chronicles 11:21 - eighteen wives Proverbs 31:3 - to that Isaiah 2:7 - land

Cross-References

Genesis 17:3
And Abram fell on his face, & God talked with hym, saying:
Genesis 17:19
Unto who God sayd: Sara thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, & thou shalt call his name Isahac: and I wyll establishe my couenaunt with hym for an euerlastyng couenaunt [and] with his seede after hym.
Genesis 17:20
And as concernyng Ismael also I haue hearde thee: for I haue blessed him, and wyll make him fruitefull, and wyl multiplie him excedingly: Twelue princes shall he beget, and I wyll make a great nation of hym.
Genesis 18:12
Therefore Sara laughed within her selfe, saying: Nowe I am waxed olde shal I geue my selfe to lust, and my Lorde olde also?
Genesis 21:6
But Sara sayde: God hath made me to reioyce, so that all that heare, wyll ioy with me.
Leviticus 9:24
And there came a fire out from before the Lorde, and consumed vpon the aulter the burnt offering & the fat: Whiche when all the people sawe, they gaue thankes, and fell on their faces.
Numbers 14:5
Then Moyses & Aaron fell on their faces before all the assemblie of the congregation of the chyldren of Israel.
Numbers 16:22
And they fell vpon their faces, and sayde: O God, the God of spirites of all fleshe, hath not one man sinned? Wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude?
Numbers 16:45
Get you from among this congregation, that I may consume the quickly. And they fell vpon their faces.
Deuteronomy 9:18
And I fell downe flat before the Lord euen as at the first time, & fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes I did neither eate bread nor drinke water, because of all your sinnes which ye sinned, in doyng wyckedly in the sight of the Lorde in that ye prouoked hym vnto wrath.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away,.... From attending to the duty of his office, the care and government of his people, and from serious religion; and particularly from the worship of the true God, as the heart of Solomon was turned away from it by his numerous idolatrous wives, 1 Kings 11:3, it is a common notion of the Jews that a king might have eighteen wives, and no more k: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold; he might increase his wealth, but not greatly, lest his heart should be lifted up with pride by it, and lest his subjects should be oppressed and burdened with taxes for that purpose; or he, being possessed of so much, should make use of it to enslave them, and especially should be so elated with it as to deny God, and despise his providence, and disobey his laws; see Proverbs 30:9. The Jews generally say l, that he ought not to multiply more than what will pay the stipends or wages of his servants, and only for the treasury of the house of the Lord, and for the necessity of the congregation (or commonwealth), and for their wars; but not for himself, and his own treasury.

k Maimon. Issure Biah, c. 1. sect. 2. Misn. ut supra. (Sanhedrin, c. 10. sect. 4.). T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 21. 1. Targum Jon. & Jarchi in loc. l Maimon. ib. sect. 4. Misn. ut supra. (k)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Multiplication of wives would lead to sensuality, and so to an apostasy no less fatal in effect than downright idolatry (compare Exodus 34:16). This rule, like the others, abridges to the ruler of Israel liberties usually enjoyed without stint by the kings of the East. The restriction was in the days of Moses unprecedented; and demanded a higher standard in the king of Israel than was looked for among his equals in other nations.

Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold - In this third prohibition, as in the other two, excess is forbidden. Vast accumulation of treasure could hardly be effected without oppression; nor when effected fail to produce pride and a “trust in uncertain riches” 1 Timothy 6:17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 17:17. Neither shall he multiply wives — For this would necessarily lead to foreign alliances, and be the means of introducing the manners and customs of other nations, and their idolatry also. Solomon sinned against this precept, and brought ruin on himself and on the land by it; see 1 Kings 11:4.


 
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