Deuteronomy 12:8
Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, each one whatever is right in his own eyes.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
9For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Cross References
Joshua 3:9And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God.
Judges 17:6In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; but Jehovah weigheth the hearts.
Acts 7:42But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in [the] book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, 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 →