So, they are words of encouragement as he is recounting that which God has done. Now Israel had totally failed in their place. In Deuteronomy 6:1-9, . "For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is in all things that we call upon him for? Yet they complained against him and refused to go with him into the land he had chosen for them (19-33). In Deuteronomy 12:1-32 we have statutes and judgments. Here then we have all laid bare. The aged lawgiver in these last words was led of the Holy Ghost to speak home to their souls. Grace has brought us out of the condition of a nation in the flesh or of men in the earth. Who shall deliver me from this bondage to my flesh?" Beside the tithe of their increase truly rendered from corn, wine, oil, with the firstlings, which, if distant from the place Jehovah would choose for His centre of worship, might be turned into money, and there spent before Him with a joyful household and the Levite not forsaken, there was to be a tithe at the end of three years, mentioned in the 28th and 29th verses: "At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates." (October, a.d. Every step in really obeying God puts the man morally to the test, and is more or less attended with severe trial. John here used the word "Jews" as a designation for the Jerusalemites, who, as enemies of Christ, were to be distinguished from the multitudes who were in doubt J. it is an easy thing to say, "We have sinned;" but how often we have to learn that it is not the quick abrupt confession of sin which affords evidence that sin is felt! My Father, I ask that You grant me prosperity in all my endeavours. Now it was God's desire all along to bring them into the land. Temple Cleansed. God Himself did not disclose Himself by an external creature-shape. THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY. Surely this is highly significant. our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we.". Jeremiah, or any other prophet. It is no use talking about Israel: the first object is God. It is well for persons that they are not to stay long under the law, and the terrors of it, but are directed to Mount Zion; Hebrews 12:18. Moses began his recital of Israels history at Horeb (Sinai) because this is where Yahweh adopted the nation by making the Mosaic Covenant with her. 24; 2 Cor. Boy, what a horrible thing to say.So, the people were discouraged and they said, The people are greater and taller than we are; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and we have seen the sons of the Anakims ( Deuteronomy 1:28 ). [173] Philo was born in Alexandria, about the year 20 before Christ. Thus, for the renewal of the covenant described in Deuteronomy, the prologue recalls not only the covenants history, but also the ability of the Lord of the covenant to fulfill his promise. Whereas, even in God's dealings with a nation after the flesh (and such is the truth as to Israel here), there was an admirable check on man and witness of divine government, though the law made nothing perfect. The Blessing of Jacob Upon Judah. It would not be good for us always to be in this state of simple receiving. Numbers 13:1-33 gives the fact when God warranted Moses to send the spies; Deuteronomy supplies the motives which wrought in the people to desire them. Is there anything so wholesome! In comparing the allegorical Canons of Philo with those of Jewish traditionalism, we think first of all of the seven exegetical canons which are ascribed to Hillel. One of the most weighty duties is not properly a moral question at all, but depends simply on the commandment of God. Here we see that God had a most deliberate choice in the smallest matters as well as in the greatest; but He begins with what most nearly touches His presence. Above all the prime object is to press obedience on the people of God, but the obedience of a people who had already found what it was to have utterly broken down on their own assumed responsibility. He too it was who had given the Mount to Esau: that was enough. "Ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire in the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. Deuteronomy 1:6-9. . What gentle censures, if any, what palpable favouritism towards his own party, where they most deserve reproof and rebuke or perhaps still more stringent measures! 10. "Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb." The character of it was so solemn as scarce to admit of this. Fr. "Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine." What a horrible thing, what a horrible thing to say about God and against God; God hates us. Rebuilding the Temple (Ezra 1:1-6:22) Bible Commentary / Produced by TOW Project The Book of Ezra begins with a decree from King Cyrus of Persia, allowing the Jews to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple that had been destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BC (Ezra 1:2-4). "Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession." There is a third feast, that of tabernacles. There he kept them about a year, and then told them they had dwelt long enough there, they must go forward. iv. Genesis 39: 2-6. Still more take the opposite hypothesis and contend that its legislation is of a later character than that of the preceding book. 29.) O. T. p. 65) says: "From Deuteronomy 10:8 it is plain that the Levites were not appointed at Sinai but later; whereas we learn fromNumbers 8:1-26; Numbers 8:1-26. that their institution took place at Sinai." 5-8; 1 Cor. "Judah, thou, thy brethren shall praise thee; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; before thee shall bow down the sons of thy father. It is not the Jewish people in the school of Jehovah to manifest what was in their heart, and what He was towards them; but the people strengthened by Jehovah in presence of a power mightier than their own. Moses mentions how the saying pleased him: here things are stated exactly as they were. If God had held to the terms of that covenant, never could the people have found their way into Canaan; but God was pleased to bring in fresh terms by a way which will be shown before we have done with this sketch of Deuteronomy; and it was simply and solely because of those fresh terms of mercy which God Himself brought in of His own grace that Israel entered there. For although there were flocks and herds led into the wilderness with the children of Israel at the command of Jehovah, and they may have added more from enemies they conquered, the fact just now referred to meets and removes a host of objections raised about it, and proves that the nature of these ordinances has not been understood. A desire to obey God and to keep the law of God, consenting that it's good, that's the right way, that's the way I want to live; seeing the divine ideal, being attracted by the divine ideal and desiring, longing after it. Taking the passage in this light, and reading the wider truth into it, we get the idea of a land which is: 1. See Romans 8:15. *Because this is such a beautiful prayer to pray for your immediate family, the people of God, or to bless others as well as yourself, I have used the plural "we/us" but you can also use the singular "I/me" while praying! Accordingly the majority of expositors take the record in Exodus for the exact one, supposing that, as Moses was speaking to the people in the latter case, he recited from memory, not from the tables of stone, and therefore there is some variation of terms. a. Whither shall we go up? But the believer sees wisdom and grace in comparing the first historical statement with the solemn use the legislator makes to the generation about to enter the land, and the added information is of grave import. It had more of the family character; but a beautiful feature is connected with it: "And the Levite (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee), and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." The prime duty for every creature, whether Jew or Christian, is obedience. It is the book which our Lord quotes in His temptations with Satan. The reason is obvious. But their fathers would not obey at that time. The book from which they were selected had itself a special appropriateness to the occasion, as we shall see: can it be doubted that the blessed Lord knew this infinitely well when He was pleased to use it? The discourse itself. 3. What nation had such a wonder as God Himself in their midst God Himself near the least of them? What have I to ask beside? Thus: God is that one spiritual and infinitely perfect essence, whose being is of himself eternally (Deut. ^D John VII. This is the meaning of it, and such is precisely the path of duty. Thank You, loving Father, that You never change. For instance, it is not everybody that is called to serve God in a public way; nor is everyone called to take a particular step or course which might involve him in trouble and persecution. (Gen. Xlix. Background of Text: Israel has been delivered out of Egypt. Which the Holy Scripture called "The hill-country of Judah," Joshua 21:11; Luke 1:39. Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount.--From the beginning of the second month of the first year of the exodus (Exodus 19:1) to the twentieth day of the second month of the second year (Numbers 10:11).This was the period of organisation, in which the people received the . It is well for persons that they are not to stay long under the law, and the terrors of it, but are directed to Mount Zion; Hebrews 12:18. How good is the Lord! 3) and dwelling in inaccessible light (1 Tim. "The good that I would I do not. They were a people brought into relationship with God, and the object of His words was to guard them from practical inconsistency with that relationship. For a Jew no doubt there is the law of Moses. There is another remark to be made. We know well that, if God made known His acts unto Israel, He made His ways known unto Moses. Such is the principle: no sparing friends, relatives, "wife of thy bosom," could be tolerated. It probably covers the last month and a half of Moses' life. What a guard this was against the misuse of outward forms! But where is the savage even who does not know the wrongness of stealing? II. I am afraid there was not much more in the weeping than in the acknowledgment of the sin. The grand duty and safeguard is evermore to heed His word, and the consulting Him not only for their own path but in respect to others. In advancing to take possession of the world for Christ, we have the encouragement of thinking that he knows precisely to what kind of work he is sending us, and yet promises success. I pray that by Your grace, I would choose to live a victorious life that trusts Your Word, submits to Your will, and honours Your name in every eventuality of life. They failed to enter in by faith to that which God had promised to them. Not that I doubt the sabbath-day to be of the deepest possible moment, and so lasting in its claims that, when the millennium comes, that day of rest will be in full force again. We now begin to understand a little of the very beginning of God's Book--of the times in which it was written, the materials used by its first author, and the different kinds of writing from which he had to choose; but we must go a step farther. Ye have dwelt long enough, c. They came to Sinai in the third month after their departure from Egypt, Exodus 19:1-2 and left it the twentieth of the second month of the second year, so it appears they had continued there nearly a whole year. will be blessed. In short, whatever it be to which God summons us is precisely what the devil endeavours to obscure, and so to hinder our testimony. Therefore it was that, when God told them to go up, they refused and suffered the consequence of their disobedience. What we find here is a warning not to yield to the sight of their eyes or the violence of their hands, guarding against a covetous spirit which pays slight regard to that which God had assigned to others. Bearing this in mind, any reader can see that "at that time" in verse 8 really coalesces with "at that time" in verses 1-6, and therefore is in perfect accord withNumbers 8:1-26; Numbers 8:1-26; and yet is it repeated in p. 336. John here used the word "Jews" as a designation for the Jerusalemites, who, as enemies of Christ, were to be distinguished from the multitudes who were in doubt, [Illustration: (drop cap W) Clay letter tablet of Moses' time.] This year and its institutions fill up exactly one-third of the text of the Pentateuch. This is the preamble to the recitation of the law in Deuteronomy, and includes the text of "the Shema," what has become the central prayer of Judaism, and which Jesus identifies as the greatest commandment in Matthew 22:36 and Mark 12:29-30. We need further insight to think the right way and make right life decisions. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." (6) The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb.--The "Lord our God," "Jehovah our Elohim," is the watchword of the whole book. It seems probable to us that the record in Exodus is the more exact. (Road from Bethany and Jerusalem. In Deuteronomy 11:1-32 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. What is meant by a moral law is that which one can pronounce on from within even without a prescription from God. The truth is that the solemn circumstances appear to recall to the mind of Moses the awful lapse of Israel when "they made the calf which Aaron made," and Levi, of odd perfidious to the stranger for a sister's sake, consecrated themselves to Jehovah in the blood of their idolatrous brethren; and Moses hews at Jehovah's command tables of stone like the first, and put them, written as before, in the ark which he had made. Deuteronomy 1:6-9: Pulpit Commentary Homiletics. If they were going to possess the land, let them remember it was God's land, not theirs. He points out that God had been with them through the wilderness experience. i. 6. 7). There was a danger that Israel's stay at the mount might last too long. 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