Deuteronomy 1:1-8
THE INTRODUCTION... [ Continue Reading ]
THE INTRODUCTION... [ Continue Reading ]
These be the words, the addresses, WHICH MOSES SPAKE UNTO ALL ISRAEL ON THIS SIDE JORDAN IN THE WILDERNESS, in the semiarid steppes, IN THE PLAIN OVER AGAINST THE RED SEA, after whose passage they had entered into the wilderness, BETWEEN PARAN, AND TOPHEL, AND LABAN, AND HAZEROTH, AND DIZAHAB. The s... [ Continue Reading ]
(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb, or Sinai, where the Law was given, BY THE WAY OF MOUNT SEIR, along its foothills and leading to its highest elevation, UNTO KADESH-BARNEA, and so long it had taken the people upon their first trip.)... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel according unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them, in agreement with all the precepts and ordinances which had been given to him during a... [ Continue Reading ]
after he had slain Sihon, the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth (and) IN EDREI, the two names either being those of his capital cities, or Edrei was located in the fertile region of Ashtaroth. It was at this time, when the defeat of the... [ Continue Reading ]
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, for the plains where Israel was encamped were originally a part of Moabitis, BEGAN MOSES TO DECLARE, to expound, THIS LAW, SAYING,... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord, our God, spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount, namely, from the third month of the first year after the exodus to the twentieth day of the second month of the second year. vdded fuel to Saul's jealousy.... [ Continue Reading ]
So Michal let David down through a window. And he went, and fled, and escaped, for Saul's watchmen were guarding only the door. And Michal took an image, a picture of a household god, such as the Israelites still retained as the remnant of the idolatrous practices brought from their Chaldean home,... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, I have set the land before you, it was Jehovah's gift to them and its possession therefore should be certain and easy; GO IN AND POSSESS THE LAND WHICH THE LORD SWARE UNTO YOUR FATHERS, ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, TO GIVE UNTO THEM AND TO THEIR SEED AFTER THEM. Genesis 22:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone. Moses does not observe the chronological order of events, but selects such as were of importance for his present purpose. It was while the people were encamped at Horeb that Moses arranged for assistants, Exodus 18:13... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ASSISTANTS OF MOSES... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord, your God, hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude, as the Lord had promised in the prophecy of the covenant, Genesis 15:5 ff; Genesis 12:2; Genesis 18:18; Genesis 22:17; Genesis 26:4. And Moses here inserts his own devout wish and prayer,... [ Continue Reading ]
(the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are and bless you as He hath promised you!)... [ Continue Reading ]
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, for the responsibility for the entire people's welfare rested upon him, AND YOUR BURDEN, all the business which they had laid upon Moses, which he had assumed as an obligation, AND YOUR STRIFE, the many difficulties connected with their quarrels and litiga... [ Continue Reading ]
Take you wise men and understanding, they were to select these men themselves, since it was necessary to place a great deal of trust in them, AND KNOWN AMONG YOUR TRIBES, AND I WILL MAKE THEM RULERS OVER YOU. These rulers were thus characterized by the fear of God, by good common sense in judging pa... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye answered me and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.... [ Continue Reading ]
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them heads over you, formally invested them with the authority needed, CAPTAINS OVER THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OVER HUNDREDS, AND CAPTAINS OVER FIFTIES, AND CAPTAINS OVER TENS, AND OFFICERS AMONG YOUR TRIBES.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I charged your judges, for as such these men were to act, AT THAT TIME, SAYING, HEAR THE CAUSES BETWEEN YOUR BRETHREN, more in the capacity of mediators than of executives, AND JUDGE RIGHTEOUSLY BETWEEN EVERY MAN AND HIS BROTHER, AND THE STRANGER THAT IS WITH HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, literally, "look upon, acknowledge, make a distinction between, faces," said of being partial; BUT YE SHALL HEAR THE SMALL AS WELL AS THE GREAT. YE SHALL NOT BE AFRAID OF THE FACE OF MAN, no matter if he be powerful otherwise; FOR THE JUDGMENT IS GOD'S; AND... [ Continue Reading ]
And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. The chief judicial authority remained with Moses, under the direct leadership of God. The believers of the New Testament have one infallible rule to guide them at all times, the Word of Scripture.... [ Continue Reading ]
And when we departed from Horeb, Numbers 10:11, WE WENT THROUGH ALL THAT GREAT AND TERRIBLE WILDERNESS WHICH YE SAW BY THE WAY OF THE MOUNTAIN OF THE AMORITES, during their journey to reach that country, AS THE LORD, OUR GOD, COMMANDED US; AND WE CAME TO KADESH-BARNEA, which may be considered as bei... [ Continue Reading ]
Kadesh-Barnea and the Spies.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, the range which separated them from Canaan, and which here stands for the entire country, WHICH THE LORD, OUR GOD, DOTH GIVE UNTO US. Moses represented the goal as even then attained.... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, the Lord, thy God, hath set the land before thee, He had made them a present of the entire country in advance; GO UP AND POSSESS IT, AS THE LORD GOD OF THY FATHERS HATH SAID UNTO THEE; FEAR NOT, NEITHER BE DISCOURAGED.... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye came near unto me, every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. This account supplements that of Numbers 13, showing that Moses was in favor of going right... [ Continue Reading ]
And the saying pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe, Numbers 13:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they turned, set out, AND WENT UP INTO THE MOUNTAIN, the mountainous country of Canaan, AND CAME UNTO THE VALLEY OF ESHCOL, AND SEARCHED IT OUT, Numbers 13:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the Lord, our God, doth give us. It was in this point, with regard to the fertility of the land, that the report of all the spies had agreed.... [ Continue Reading ]
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, being influenced by the terror which had taken hold upon the majority of the spies, Numbers 13:31, BUT REBELLED AGAINST THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, YOUR GOD;... [ Continue Reading ]
and ye murmured in your tents, Numbers 14:1. for so the rebellion had begun, AND SAID, BECAUSE THE LORD HATED US, HE HATH BROUGHT US FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, TO DELIVER US INTO THE HANDS OF THE AMORITES, TO DESTROY US. By addressing the present generation in the words of this accusation, Mose... [ Continue Reading ]
Whither shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and, moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. Numbers 13:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. Moses had seconded the efforts of Joshua and Caleb.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord, our God, which goeth before you, He shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;... [ Continue Reading ]
and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord, thy God, bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. Cf Exodus 19:4. They had experienced the merciful kindness of God which took up the faint and perishing, the care which bore them... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord, your God,... [ Continue Reading ]
who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. The entire behavior of the children of Israel at that time had been based upon lack of faith in the Lord, it flowed from unbelief.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,... [ Continue Reading ]
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land which I sware to give unto your fathers,... [ Continue Reading ]
save Caleb, the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord, Numbers 14:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, namely, at Meribah, an incident which Moses includes at this point for the sake of cumulative effect, SAYING, THOU ALSO SHALT NOT GO IN THITHER, Numbers 20:12. This is not inserted in chronological sequence, but in logical connection, and is very effec... [ Continue Reading ]
But Joshua, the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither; encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. Cf Numbers 14:30; Numbers 27:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
Moreover, your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, having no part in that particular transgression of their parents, THEY SHALL GO IN THITHER, AND UNTO THEM WILL I GIVE IT, AND THEY SHALL POSSESS IT, Numbers 14:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
But as for you, turn you, away from the inviting richness of the Land of Promise, AND TAKE YOUR JOURNEY INTO THE WILDERNESS BY THE WAY OF THE RED SEA, Numbers 14:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the Lord, we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord, our God, commanded us, Numbers 14:40. AND WHEN YE HAD GIRDED ON EVERY MAN HIS WEAPONS OF WAR, YE WERE READY TO GO UP IN TO THE HILL; in their presumptuousness they thought it... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies; their defeat without His assistance was a foregone conclusion.... [ Continue Reading ]
So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord, and went presumptuously, with proud, defiant insolence, UP IN TO THE HILL.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, and had prepared for a possible invasion, CAME OUT AGAINST YOU, AND CHASED YOU AS BEES DO, AND DESTROYED YOU IN SEIR, EVEN UNTO HORMAH, pursuing them far into Edomitish territory.... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye returned and wept before the Lord, before the Tabernacle; BUT THE LORD WOULD NOT HEARKEN TO YOUR VOICE NOR GIVE EAR UNTO YOU. That was Jehovah's attitude during the next years, for He refused to change His sentence which condemned all adult Israelites to death in the wilderness.... [ Continue Reading ]
So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there. The exact length of time during which the people remained at this station after the return of the spies is a matter of conjecture only. We believers of the New Testament should remember the many evidences of the goodness a... [ Continue Reading ]