He is. From God all advantages are derived. We may render the Hebrew, with the Septuagint, "Because this is thy life (Calmet)....to dwell," &c. By observing the law of God, long life and possession of the promised land can be alone attained. (Haydock)
Verse Deuteronomy 30:20. _THAT THOU MAYEST LOVE THE LORD_] Without _love_ there can be no _obedience_. _OBEY HIS VOICE_] Without _obedience_ love is _fruitless_ and dead. _AND - CLEAVE UNTO HIM_] W...
Ignorance of the requirements of the law cannot be pleaded Deuteronomy 30:10; hence, Deuteronomy 30:15 life and death, good and evil, are solemnly set before the people for their own choice; and an ea...
26. THE DISPERSION, THE RETURN AND THE FINAL APPEAL CHAPTER 30 _ 1. The message of hope (Deuteronomy 30:1)_ 2. The final appeal (Deuteronomy 30:11) These things, which Moses spoke into the ears of...
DEUTERONOMY 30:11 was probably intended to close Dt. Deuteronomy 30:11 is applied and adapted by Paul in Romans 6-8. Prefix to Deuteronomy 30:16 the following words found in the LXX and
IN THE LAND. on the soil. Hebrew. _'adamah._ THY FATHERS. All three Patriarchs are named. See note on Genesis 50:24. THEM. This is the end of the sixth address. See note on Deuteronomy 1:1....
The Close of the Concluding Addresses The commandment is not too hard nor distant, but near, articulate, intelligible and practicable (Deuteronomy 30:11-14). Sheer life and death, good and evil, is s...
_love … obey … cleave_ See on Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 10:20; Deuteronomy 13:4 (5). _for_ THAT _is thy life_, etc.] Variant from...
The Peroration to the Discourses 15. Cp. Jeremiah 21:8. _set before thee this day_ Deuteronomy 4:8. _life and good_, etc.] Cp. Deuteronomy 11:26: _blessing and curse_. For death and e
5. FINAL ENCOURAGEMENT TO CHOOSE THE PATH OF BLESSING RATHER THAN THE CURSE (Deuteronomy 30:15-20) 15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 in that I command thee...
_SEE, I HAVE SET BEFORE THEE THIS DAY LIFE AND GOOD, AND DEATH AND EVIL;_ See, I have set before thee this day life ... and death - i:e., the alternative of a good and happy, or a disobedient and mis...
HE _is_ THY LIFE] To love God is life: cp. Proverbs 8:35; Proverbs 8:36....
PROMISES AND APPEALS A promise of restoration, even after abandonment and rejection, is held out, on condition of repentance; and an appeal is made to the people to choos the way of obedience and lif...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 30 V1 ‘All these *blessings and *curses, that I have told you about, will happen to you. You wi...
HE IS THY LIFE, AND THE LENGTH OF THY DAYS. — This is the Old Testament form of a well-known saying in the New Testament, which may yet be fulfilled in Israel, “_I am_ the _resurrection_ and _the life...
לְ אַֽהֲבָה֙ אֶת ־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ לִ שְׁמֹ
MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
THE SUPREME CHOICE Deuteronomy 30:11 The immediate purpose of this passage is to encourage the people by reminding them that all things needful for a holy life are within their reach. Paul refers to...
Continuing his discourse, Moses uttered words thrilling at first with tenderness and urgent appeal. In the first ten verses of the chapter we have the long look ahead of love. He seems to have seen t...
I beg the Reader to take particular notice of what is included in the parenthesis, that he is thy life and the length of thy days. Is not this clearly referring to the LORD JESUS? Who is the life of h...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
We must now dwell a little on this last point. Chapter 30 furnishes us with an important principle. It supposes that the people have already incurred the consequences of disobedience, and they are see...
THAT THOU MAYEST LOVE THE LORD THY GOD,.... And show it by keeping his commands: [AND] THAT THOU MAYEST OBEY HIS VOICE; in his word, and by his prophets: AND THAT THOU MAYEST CLEAVE UNTO HIM; and to...
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, [and] that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he [is] thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the lan...
_That thou mayest love the Lord thy God_ Here he shows them in short what their duty is; _to love_ God as _the Lord_, a being most amiable, and as _their God_, a God in covenant with them: as an evide...
1 Great mercies promised vnto the repentant. 11 The Commaundement is manifest. 15 Death and life are set before them. 1 AND it shall come to passe when all these things are come vpon thee, the bles...
DEATH AND LIFE SET BEFORE ISRAEL...
that thou mayest love the Lord, thy God, and that thou mayest obey His voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto Him; for he is thy Life, the Source and Giver of a happy life, both here and yonder, AND...
GOD'S GRACE TO THOSE WHO RETURN (vs.1-10) There are some (even Christians) who insist that Israel has departed so far from God that they can never be restored. But they must ignore chapter 30:1-10, a...
15-20 What could be said more moving, and more likely to make deep and lasting impressions? Every man wishes to obtain life and good, and to escape death and evil; he desires happiness, and dreads mi...
HE IS THY LIFE, i.e. the cause or author of thy life, as _life_ is used 1 THESSALONIANS 14:6, 1 THESSALONIANS 17:3....
This chapter is one of very deep interest and importance. It is prophetic, and presents to us some of "the secret things" referred to at the close of the Preceding chapter. It unfolds some of those mo...
Deuteronomy 30:20 love H157 (H8800) LORD H3068 God H430 obey H8085 (H8800) voice H6963 cling H1692 ...
THE CHOICE IS PUT TO THEM BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH (DEUTERONOMY 30:15). Analysis using the words of Moses: a See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil, in that I command you...
Deuteronomy 30:19 I. "I call heaven and earth to record against you," says Moses. This was no idle rhetorical formula. The open sky over his head was the witness and pledge of permanence, the sign tha...
CONTENTS: The Palestinian covenant declared. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Those shall have life who choose it. Those who come short of life and happiness must thank themselves. They would hav...
Deuteronomy 30:5. _The Lord thy God will bring thee into the land,_ when thou art penitent, by the marvellous munificence of Darius, and of Cyrus his nephew. What a luminous vision of future things! T...
_I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil._ LIFE AND GOOD, DEATH AND EVIL 1. The matter propounded. Life as the end, good as the means leading to life; or else, life, that i...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 30:19 To CHOOSE LIFE is to choose God himself. It is to trust in God’s grace and the changes he makes in a person’s heart. HOLDING FAST. See...
CRITICAL NOTES.—Israel were rejected and exiled on account of apostacy, but not absolutely east off for ever. If they would return to the Lord he would turn his favour towards them again, and gather t...
EXPOSITION DEUTERONOMY 30:1 Though rejected and exiled because of rebellion and apostasy, Israel should not be absolutely or forever cast off. When dispersed among the nations, if the people should r...
Chapter 30. It shall come to pass when all these things are come upon thee the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and you call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord...
Acts 11:23; Acts 17:25; Acts 17:28; Colossians 3:3; Colossians 3:4;...
That thou mayest love the Lord thy God — Here he shews them in short, what their duty is; To love God as the Lord, a being most amiable, and as their God, a God in covenant with them: as an evidence o...