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Verse Deuteronomy 4:26. _I CALL HEAVEN AND EARTH TO WITNESS AGAINST
YOU_] A most solemn method of adjuration, in use among all nations in
the world. So Virgil, AEn., lib. xii., ver. 176, c.
Tum pius...
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Compare with these verses Leviticus 26:33, and Deuteronomy 28:64 ff....
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3. HEARKEN, O ISRAEL!
CHAPTER 4
_ 1. Obedience demanded (Deuteronomy 4:1)_
2. The covenant to be observed (Deuteronomy 4:9)
3. Take heed unto yourselves lest ye forget (Deuteronomy 4:15
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SECOND PART OF MOSES-' FIRST ADDRESS. This contains exhortations to
obedience from motives of self-interest and of gratitude to Yahweh,
and forms an apparent logical unity with Deuteronomy 1:6 to
Deut...
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I CALL. Figure of speech _Deasis._ App-6. Compare Deuteronomy 31:28.
HEAVEN AND EARTH. the heavens and the earth (always plural and with
Hebrew particle. _eth_, except Genesis 2:1. See note on Deutero...
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_I call heaven and earth to witness against you_ So Deuteronomy 30:19;
Deuteronomy 31:28. Berth. points out that the older style is _earth
and heaven_. In controversy between God and Israel nature is...
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Threat of Exile with Promise of Grace on Repentance
If, with the slackness of increasing years, Israel give way to
idolatry (Deuteronomy 4:25) Moses testifies that they shall perish
from the land (De...
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_VER._ 26. _I CALL HEAVEN AND EARTH TO WITNESS AGAINST YOU_— These
expressions, says Calmet, are lively and animated. Moses again
addresses the heaven and the earth, in the sacred song which he
delive...
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I MUST NOT GO OVER THE JORDAN (Deuteronomy 4:22)See under Deuteronomy
1:37.
c. PUNISHMENT FOR IDOLATRY: BANISHMENT FROM THE LAND (Deuteronomy
4:25-28)
25 When thou shalt beget children, and children'...
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_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
SHA...
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FIRST DISCOURSE (DEUTERONOMY 1:14 TO DEUTERONOMY 4:43)
The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The
Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the
Promised Land...
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EXHORTATIONS TO OBEDIENCE
This chapter contains the practical part of the discourse. Having
briefly rehearsed the experiences of the Israelites in the wilderness
up to the present point, Moses closes...
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 4
V1 ‘Therefore, everyone in *Israel, listen to the rules and the
laws that I will teach to you...
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הַעִידֹתִי֩ בָכֶ֨ם הַ יֹּ֜ום אֶת ־הַ
שָּׁמַ֣י
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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JEHOVAH “A JEALOUS GOD”
Deuteronomy 4:15
How often Moses repeats, “ _take heed._ ” We must watch as well as
pray and keep our souls diligently. We must specially beware of
idols-that is, any visible...
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On the ground of this survey Moser exhorted the people to be obedient,
His appeal was based on the greatness of their God and the perfection
of His law. Their whole existence as a nation centered arou...
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I (r) 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, bu...
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And earth, or all their rational inhabitants. (St. Jerome and St.
Basil in Isa. i. 2.) Moses conjures the Israelites, by all that is
most sacred, to continue faithful. He speaks with the greatest
earn...
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Observe the vast earnestness of the Sacred Preacher in the arguments
he adopts to interest the feelings of the people; and how he dwells,
again and again, upon the same very powerful motives to induce...
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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...
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_THE LAW OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_
‘When ye … shall corrupt yourselves.… Ye shall soon utterly
perish from off the land.’
Deuteronomy 4:25
Over and over again in Scripture we are taught, and for the most p...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1, 2, 3, AND 4.
Let us examine a little more closely these Chapter s, which shew the
pains the Spirit took, to set before the eyes of the people all the
moti...
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I CALL HEAVEN AND EARTH TO WITNESS AGAINST YOU THIS DAY,.... Should
they be guilty of such a sin, since they were so strongly and publicly
cautioned against it; and even the heaven and the earth were...
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1 An Exhortation to obedience.
41 Moses appointeth the three Cities of refuge on that side Iordan.
1 NOWE therefore hearken, O Israel, vnto the Statutes, and vnto the
Iudgments which I teach you, fo...
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MOSES INSISTS ON OBEDIENCE
(vs.1-14)
Because God had already blessed Israel and intended to bless them more
greatly still. Moses urges them to "listen to the statutes and
judgments" he is teaching th...
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24-40 Moses urged the greatness, glory, and goodness of God. Did we
consider what a God he is with whom we have to do, we should surely
make conscience of our duty to him, and not dare to sin against...
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HEAVEN AND EARTH; either,
1. Figuratively, i.e. God, and angels, and men. Or rather,
2. Properly; it being usual in Scripture to call in the senseless
creatures as witnesses in such cases, as Deutero...
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Now therefore hearken O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
judgements 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...
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Deuteronomy 4:26 call H5749 heaven H8064 earth H776 witness H5749
(H8689) day H3117 soon H4118 utterly H6 ...
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WHAT THEIR FATE WILL BE IF THEY TURN AWAY FROM HIM TO GRAVEN IMAGES
(DEUTERONOMY 4:25).
This fate had already been portrayed by what had happened to their
fathers who were driven from the land (Deuter...
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CONTENTS: The new generations taught the lessons of Sinai. Cities of
refuge designated.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: The review of God's providences concerning us should
quicken us and engage...
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Deuteronomy 4:2. _Ye shall not add unto the word._ This would be to
debase revelation, and treat the divine law as a defective production
of man, that needed additions and retrenchments. Solon, the At...
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_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._
MOSES’ DISCOURSE
1. In general it is...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—From the mention of what God had done for Israel,
Moses passes to the obedience of the law. They were under deep
obligation to keep it, and in doing so, consisted their wisdom,
greatne...
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EXPOSITION
DEUTERONOMY 4:25-5
Moses enforces the warning against idolatry, by predicting the evil
that should come upon the nation through the apostasy of those who
should in after times turn from Je...
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NOW therefore (Deuteronomy 4:1)
Moses is now making application.
NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and to the
judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that you may live, and go in
a...
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Deuteronomy 29:28; Deuteronomy 30:18; Deuteronomy 30:19; Deuteronomy
31:28;...
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PARTING WORDS
Deuteronomy 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
It is, perhaps, strange to some that we speak of the fourth chapter of
Deuteronomy as "Parting words," yet the whole Book of Deuteronomy
centers in t...