Deuteronomy 12:8

You shall not do there the things that we are doing here today: each one doing what seems good to himself.

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In The King James Version

Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

In Context

7And you shall eat it there, in the sight of the Lord your God. And you shall rejoice in all the things to which you shall set your hand: you and your household, which the Lord your God has blessed for you.

9For even until the present time, you did not arrive at the rest and the possession, which the Lord your God will give to you.

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Cross References

Joshua 3:9And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, “Approach to here, and listen to the word of the Lord your God.”

Judges 17:6In those days, there was no king in Israel. Instead, each one did what seemed right to himself.

Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man seems right to himself. But the Lord weighs hearts.

Acts 7:42Then God turned, and he handed them over, to subservience to the armies of heaven, just as it was written in the Book of the Prophets: ‘Did you not offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 12:6-32

Where Sacrifices Must Be Offered; Ceremonial Observances; Cautions Against Idolatrous Rites. ( b. c. 1451.) 5 But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: 7 And there ye… Read the whole commentary →

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