Passage Research
Deuteronomy 12 — Sermon Preparation
All worship must be centralized at the place God will choose; Canaanite altars must be demolished and their practices never imitated. Below is a research summary for Deuteronomy 12, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 31
- verses
- 520 / 151
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 10
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Deuteronomy 12 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אָכַל | ʼâkal | H398 | 18 | eat |
| מָקוֹם | mâqôwm | H4725 | 9 | standing, spot |
| בָּשָׂר | bâsâr | H1320 | 7 | flesh, freshness |
| בָּחַר | bâchar | H977 | 6 | try, select |
| נֶפֶשׁ | nephesh | H5315 | 6 | breathing creature, animal |
| עֹלָה | ʻôlâh | H5930 | 5 | step, holocaust |
| נֶדֶר | neder | H5088 | 4 | promise, thing promised |
How preachers through history handled this text
10 public-domain excerpts on Deuteronomy 12, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“The command to bring ALL the sacrifices to the door of the tabernacle, was now explained with reference to the promised land. As to moral service, then, as now, men might pray and worship every where, as they did in their synagogues. The place which God would choose, is said to be the place where he would put his name. It was to be his habitation, where, as King of Israel, he would be found by all who reverently sought him. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Deuteronomy 12:5–32 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jordan— Deut 12:10
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