_NOW THEREFORE HEARKEN, O ISRAEL, UNTO THE STATUTES AND UNTO THE JUDGMENTS, WHICH I TEACH YOU, FOR TO DO THEM, THAT YE MAY LIVE, AND GO IN AND POSSESS THE LAND WHICH THE LORD GOD OF YOUR FATHERS GIVETH YOU._ Hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments. By statutes were meant all ord... [ Continue Reading ]
_YE SHALL NOT ADD UNTO THE WORD WHICH I COMMAND YOU, NEITHER SHALL YE DIMINISH OUGHT FROM IT, THAT YE MAY KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD YOUR GOD WHICH I COMMAND YOU._ Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you - by the introduction of any pagan superstition, or forms of worship differen... [ Continue Reading ]
_YOUR EYES HAVE SEEN WHAT THE LORD DID BECAUSE OF BAALPEOR: FOR ALL THE MEN THAT FOLLOWED BAALPEOR, THE_ _ LORD THY GOD HATH DESTROYED THEM FROM AMONG YOU._ Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor. It appears, from this appeal to the spectators of the event, though it is not reco... [ Continue Reading ]
_BEHOLD, I HAVE TAUGHT YOU STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS, EVEN AS THE LORD MY GOD COMMANDED ME, THAT YE SHOULD DO SO IN THE LAND WHITHER YE GO TO POSSESS IT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_KEEP THEREFORE AND DO THEM; FOR THIS IS YOUR WISDOM AND YOUR UNDERSTANDING IN THE SIGHT OF THE NATIONS, WHICH SHALL HEAR ALL THESE STATUTES, AND SAY, SURELY THIS GREAT NATION IS A WISE AND UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE._ This is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations. Moses predicte... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR WHAT NATION IS THERE SO GREAT, WHO HATH GOD SO NIGH UNTO THEM, AS THE LORD OUR GOD IS IN ALL THINGS THAT WE CALL UPON HIM FOR?_ What nation is there so great? Here he represents their privileges and their duty in such significant and comprehensive terms as were peculiarly calculated to arrest... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHAT NATION IS THERE SO GREAT, THAT HATH STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS SO RIGHTEOUS AS ALL THIS LAW, WHICH I SET BEFORE YOU THIS DAY?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SPECIALLY THE DAY THAT THOU STOODEST BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD IN HOREB, WHEN THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, GATHER ME THE PEOPLE TOGETHER, AND I WILL MAKE THEM HEAR MY WORDS, THAT THEY MAY LEARN TO FEAR ME ALL THE DAYS THAT THEY SHALL LIVE UPON THE EARTH, AND THAT THEY MAY TEACH THEIR CHILDREN._ The day th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YE CAME NEAR AND STOOD UNDER THE MOUNTAIN; AND THE MOUNTAIN BURNED WITH FIRE UNTO THE MIDST OF_ _ AND YE CAME NEAR AND STOOD UNDER THE MOUNTAIN; AND THE MOUNTAIN BURNED WITH FIRE UNTO THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, WITH DARKNESS, CLOUDS, AND THICK DARKNESS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO YOU OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE: YE HEARD THE VOICE OF THE WORDS, BUT SAW NO SIMILITUDE; ONLY YE HEARD A VOICE._ Ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude. Although articulate sounds were heard emanating from the mount, no form or representation of the Divine... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DECLARED UNTO YOU HIS COVENANT, WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, EVEN TEN COMMANDMENTS; AND HE WROTE THEM UPON TWO TABLES OF STONE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_TAKE YE THEREFORE GOOD HEED UNTO YOURSELVES; FOR YE SAW NO MANNER OF SIMILITUDE ON THE DAY THAT THE LORD SPAKE UNTO YOU IN HOREB OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE:_ Take ... good heed ... (for ye saw no manner of similitude). The extreme proneness of the Israelites to idolatry, from their position in t... [ Continue Reading ]
_LEST YE CORRUPT YOURSELVES, AND MAKE YOU A GRAVEN IMAGE, THE SIMILITUDE OF ANY FIGURE, THE LIKENESS OF MALE OR FEMALE,_ Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image. The things are here specified of which God prohibited any image or representation to be made for the purposes of worship;... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE LORD HATH TAKEN YOU, AND BROUGHT YOU FORTH OUT OF THE IRON FURNACE, EVEN OUT OF EGYPT, TO BE UNTO HIM A PEOPLE OF INHERITANCE, AS YE ARE THIS DAY._ But the Lord hath ... brought you forth out of the iron furnace - i:e., a furnace for smelting iron. A furnace of this kind is round, sometime... [ Continue Reading ]
_FURTHERMORE THE LORD WAS ANGRY WITH ME FOR YOUR SAKES, AND SWARE THAT I SHOULD NOT GO OVER JORDAN, AND THAT I SHOULD NOT GO IN UNTO THAT GOOD LAND, WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE FOR AN INHERITANCE:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN THOU SHALT BEGET CHILDREN, AND CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, AND YE SHALL HAVE REMAINED LONG IN THE LAND, AND SHALL CORRUPT YOURSELVES, AND MAKE A GRAVEN IMAGE, OR THE LIKENESS OF ANY THING, AND SHALL DO EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD THY GOD, TO PROVOKE HIM TO ANGER:_ When ... ye shall have remained l... [ Continue Reading ]
_I CALL HEAVEN AND EARTH TO WITNESS AGAINST YOU THIS DAY, THAT YE SHALL SOON UTTERLY PERISH FROM OFF THE LAND WHEREUNTO YE GO OVER JORDAN TO POSSESS IT; YE SHALL NOT PROLONG YOUR DAYS UPON IT, BUT SHALL UTTERLY BE DESTROYED._ I call heaven and earth to witness against you. This solemn form of adjur... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SHALL SCATTER YOU AMONG THE NATIONS, AND YE SHALL BE LEFT FEW IN NUMBER AMONG THE HEATHEN, WHITHER THE LORD SHALL LEAD YOU._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE YE SHALL SERVE GODS, THE WORK OF MEN'S HANDS, WOOD AND STONE, WHICH NEITHER SEE, NOR HEAR, NOR EAT, NOR SMELL._ There ye shall serve gods. compulsory measures of their tyrannical conquerors would force them into idolatry, so that their choice would become their punishment.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT IF FROM THENCE THOU SHALT SEEK THE LORD THY GOD, THOU SHALT FIND HIM, IF THOU SEEK HIM WITH ALL THY HEART AND WITH ALL THY SOUL._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN THOU ART IN TRIBULATION, AND ALL THESE THINGS ARE COME UPON THEE, EVEN IN THE LATTER DAYS, IF THOU TURN TO THE LORD THY GOD, AND SHALT BE OBEDIENT UNTO HIS VOICE;_ In the latter days - either toward the destined close of their captivities, when they evinced a returning spirit of repentance an... [ Continue Reading ]
_(FOR THE LORD THY GOD IS A MERCIFUL GOD;) HE WILL NOT FORSAKE THEE, NEITHER DESTROY THEE, NOR FORGET THE_ _ COVENANT OF THY FATHERS WHICH HE SWARE UNTO THEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN MOSES SEVERED THREE CITIES ON THIS SIDE JORDAN TOWARD THE SUNRISING;_ Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan - (see the notes at Numbers 35:6; Joshua 20:7).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THIS IS THE LAW WHICH MOSES SET BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL:_ This is the law which Moses set. This is a preface to the rehearsal of the law, which, with the addition of various explanatory circumstances, the following chapters contain.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE ARE THE TESTIMONIES, AND THE STATUTES, AND THE JUDGMENTS, WHICH MOSES SPAKE UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AFTER THEY CAME FORTH OUT OF EGYPT,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ON THIS SIDE JORDAN, IN THE VALLEY OVER AGAINST BETHPEOR, IN THE LAND OF SIHON KING OF THE AMORITES, WHO DWELT AT HESHBON, WHOM MOSES AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SMOTE, AFTER THEY WERE COME FORTH OUT OF EGYPT:_ BETH-PEOR - i:e., house or temple of Peor. It is probable that a temple of this Moabite i... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY POSSESSED HIS LAND, AND THE LAND OF OG KING OF BASHAN, TWO KINGS OF THE AMORITES, WHICH WERE ON THIS SIDE JORDAN TOWARD THE SUNRISING;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE PLAIN ON THIS SIDE JORDAN EASTWARD, EVEN UNTO THE SEA OF THE PLAIN, UNDER THE SPRINGS OF PISGAH._ The springs of Pisgah - more frequently Ashdoth-pisgah (Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 12:3; Joshua 13:20) - the roots or foot of the mountains east of the Jordan.... [ Continue Reading ]