Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Deuteronomy 11:11
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
No JFB commentary on this verse.
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
No JFB commentary on this verse.
ISRAEL'S RESPONSIBILITY, THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God (Deuteronomy 11:1)_ 2. If ye hearken unto my commandments (Deuteronomy 11:10) 3. The b...
DEUTERONOMY 11. Continues the exhortation to love and obey Yahweh, giving motives and promises and pointing out the consequence of disobedience. Deuteronomy 11:2. Read (adding one Heb. consonant), for...
GO. are going. DRINKETH. drinketh continually....
Deuteronomy 10:12 to Deuteronomy 11:32. Final Exhortations, Introductory to the Laws Enforced by the preceding Retrospect, the discourse continues to urge its practical conclusions of full fear and l...
_whither ye go over to possess it_ This Pl. interruption is redundant even for the deuteronomic style (cp. 8 and 10) and unnecessary for the contrast which the writer is making: most probably editoria...
Another picture of the blessings of the land, cp. Deuteronomy 6:10 ff., Deuteronomy 7:12 ff., Deuteronomy 8:7 ff.; all like this in the Sg. form of address. But this time we see the land under a new a...
_VER._ 11. _BUT THE LAND WHITHER YE GO TO POSSESS IT, IS,_ &C.— Not a low country, like that of Egypt, but full of hills, which could not be made fruitful, except by rain from heaven; contrary to the...
(3) BY A CONSTANT REFRESHING OF MEMORY (Deuteronomy 11:2-25) 2 And know ye this day: for I _speak_ not with your children that have not known, and that have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your G...
PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONCLUDED) Some injunctions to obedience, with the blessing it entails, and the curse that follows disobedience....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 V1 ‘Therefore, love the *LORD your God. Always *keep his instructions, his rules and his *co...
DRINKETH WATER OF THE RAIN OF HEAVEN. — Or, as it is prettily expressed by the Jewish commentator, “While thou sleepest on thy bed, the Holy One (blessed be He!) waters it high and low.” (Comp. the pa...
וְ הָ אָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר אַתֶּ֜ם עֹבְרִ֥ים שָׁ֨מּ
ISRAEL'S ELECTION, AND MOTIVES FOR FAITHFULNESS Deuteronomy 9:1; Deuteronomy 10:1; Deuteronomy 11:1 THE remaining Chapter s of this special introduction to the statement of the actual laws beginni
THE REWARDS OF OBEDIENCE Deuteronomy 11:1 In this chapter the introductory portion of this book closes, and two final arguments are brought to bear on the chosen people, to induce them to love God an...
As Moses concluded his great call to the people to the pathway of obedience, he reminded them what varied experiences they had had from which they knew the nature of the government and power of God....
These verses afford a delightful view, even considered as an history of the promised land. It is beautiful to remark the several characters here drawn by the pencil of Moses, under the direction of th...
In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
_CANAAN UNLIKE EGYPT_ ‘But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of bills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven,’ etc. Deuteronomy 11:11 I. THE JEW WAS TO UNDERSTAND FROM...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8, 9, 10, AND 11. In chapter 8, in the most instructive and touching language as to the care God had taken of them, while keeping them in dependence, and His...
BUT THE LAND WHITHER YE GO TO POSSESS IT IS A LAND OF HILLS AND VALLEYS,.... And so could not be watered by the overflow of a river, and by canals cut out of it, and in the manner Egypt was; which was...
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, [is] a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinketh water of the rain of heaven: _Ver. ll. And drinketh water of the rain of heaven._] God crowning the year wi...
_A land of hills and valleys_ Which could not be made fruitful but by rain from heaven, which seldom fell in Egypt, whose fruitfulness depended on the overflowing of the Nile. Thus he informs them tha...
1 An exhortation to obedience, 2 by their owne experience of Gods great works, 8 by promise of Gods great blessings, 16 and by threatnings. 18 A carefull study is required in Gods words. 26 The b...
But the land whither ye go to possess it is a land of hills and valleys, not a great, flat plain like the valley of the Nile, AND DRINKETH WATER OF THE RAIN OF HEAVEN, the amount of its rainfall being...
THE EXCELLENCIES OF THE LAND OF PROMISE...
SOWING AND REAPING (vs.1-32) This chapter emphasizes the results of obedience in contrast to the consequences of disobedience. It begins with the commandment to love the Lord their God, which of cour...
8-17 Moses sets before them, for the future, life and death, the blessing and the curse, according as they did or did not keep God's commandment. Sin tends to shorten the days of all men, and to shor...
A LAND OF HILLS AND VALLEYS; and therefore much more healthful than Egypt was, which as it was enriched, so it was annoyed with Nilus, which overflowed the land in summer time, and thereby made the co...
"Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgements, and his commandments, alway. And know ye this day; for I speak not with your children which have...
Deuteronomy 11:11 land H776 over H5674 (H8802) possess H3423 (H8800) land H776 hills H2022 valleys H1237 dri
THE LAND TO WHICH THEY ARE GOING IS AN ABUNDANT LAND. IT IS WATERED BY GOD AND IS DEPENDENT ON HIS CARE, A CARE DEPENDENT ON THEIR OBEDIENCE TO THE COVENANT REQUIREMENTS (DEUTERONOMY 11:10). Analysis...
Deuteronomy 11:11 I. The Jew was to understand from his first entry into the land of Canaan that his prosperity depended utterly on God. The laws of weather, by which the rain comes up off the sea, w...
CONTENTS: Warnings and exhortations to obedience. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The closer dependence we have had on God, the more cheerful should be our obedience to Him. In absolute obedienc...
Deuteronomy 11:10. _Water it with thy foot._ Egypt was watered periodically by the overflowing of the Nile; and the husbandman, following the retiring waters, sowed his seed. When the droughty season...
_Not as the land of Egypt._ CANAAN ON EARTH Egypt is typical of the condition of the children of God while they are in bondage to the law of sin. There they are made to work unceasingly, without wage...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Deuteronomy 11:1 develops more fully the other features of Divine Requirements, Deuteronomy 10:12. Love must be seen in perpetual observance of commands. _Keep_, Leviticus 8:35;...
EXPOSITION Moses here renews his exhortation to obedience, enforced by regard to their experience of God's dealings with them in Egypt and in the wilderness, and by consideration of God's promises an...
In chapter eleven he continues his warnings to them, as they are about to come into the land. And he reminds them again of the miracles that God did for them in bringing them out of Egypt. How He spoi...
Deuteronomy 8:7; Genesis 27:28; Hebrews 6:7; Isaiah 28:1; Jeremiah 2:7
Of hills and valleys — And therefore much more healthful than Egypt was, which as it was enriched, so it was annoyed with the Nile, which overflowed the land in summer time, and thereby made the count...