Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Deuteronomy 4:44
Which hath been generally intimated already, but is more particularly and punctually expressed in the following chapter, to which these words are a preface.
Which hath been generally intimated already, but is more particularly and punctually expressed in the following chapter, to which these words are a preface.
These verses would be more properly assigned to the next chapter. They are intended to serve as the announcement and introduction of the address now to be commenced. Deuteronomy 4:44 gives a kind of g...
II. THE EXPOSITION OF THE LAW, EXHORTATIONS AND WARNINGS, BLESSING AND CURSE 1. The Proclamation of the Decalogue Chapter S 4:44-5:33 _ 1. The introductory words (Deuteronomy 4:44)_ 2. The law pro...
THIS: i.e. which hereafter followeth. The commencement of the new section according to the Structure. CHILDREN. sons....
_And this is the law_ So too Sam.; LXX, Vg. and Pesh. omit _and_. A slight symptom of the fact that this title once stood at the very beginning of an edition of D, the conjunction having been added wh...
Introduction (or Introductions) to the following Discourses and Laws (5 26) The appearance of a fresh heading at this point between the two distinct sets of discourses Deuteronomy 1:6 to Deuteronomy...
LESSON FIVE DEUTERONOMY 4:44 TO DEUTERONOMY 6:3 II. THE SECOND DISCOURSE The Law of God (Deuteronomy 4:44 to Deute
_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 ci...
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...
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...
SECOND DISCOURSE. (44-49) These words form an introduction to the second discourse, which occupies the larger portion of the book — from Deuteronomy 5:1 to the end of Deuteronomy 26. There is no real...
וְ זֹ֖את הַ תֹּורָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר ־שָׂ֣ם מֹשֶׁ֔ה
ISRAEL'S PECULIAR PRIVILEGES Deuteronomy 4:32 Every argument that love and wisdom, the great past and the miracles of the Exodus could suggest, was brought to bear on the hearts of the chosen people,...
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...
The Man of GOD is particular in marking down the very spot, where he rehearsed and performed these things for Israel: because the place was truly memorable; for Israel now possessed, as it were, the e...
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...
44._And this is the Law. _This last passage refers to the same thing, viz., that the Law was promulgated anew when the people had now reached the threshold of the promised land, in order that they mig...
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...
AND THIS IS THE LAW WHICH MOSES SET BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. Not the law concerning the cities of refuge, but the law of the ten commands repeated in the following chapter; so Jarchi remarks, ...
And this [is] the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: Ver. 44. _And this is the law._] That is, This that followeth in the next chapter, whereunto these verses serve for a preface....
_This is the law_ More particularly and fully expressed in the following chapter, to which these words are an introduction....
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...
And this is the Law which Moses set before the children of Israel;...
CONCLUSION OF THE FIRST ADDRESS...
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...
41-49 Here is the introduction to another discourse, or sermon, Moses preached to Israel, which we have in the following chapters. He sets the law before them, as the rule they were to work by, the w...
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...
Deuteronomy 4:44 law H8451 Moses H4872 set H7760 (H8804) before H6440 children H1121 Israel H3478...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 2:3; Deuteronomy 6:17; Deuteronomy 6:20; Deuteronomy 4:1;...
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...
This is the law — More punctually expressed in the following chapter, to which these words are a preface....