Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
Ver. 26. A blessing and a curse.] With the way to either, that if ye miscarry ye may have none to blame but yourselves. For oft it falls out, that whereas "the foolishness of man perverteth his way, his heart fretteth against the Lord." Pro 19:3
Verse Deuteronomy 11:26. _BEHOLD, I SET BEFORE YOU - A BLESSING AND A CURSE_] If God had not put it _in the power_ of this people either to _obey or_ _disobey_; if they had not had a _free will_, ove...
ISRAEL'S RESPONSIBILITY, THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God (Deuteronomy 11:1)_ 2. If ye hearken unto my commandments (Deuteronomy 11:10) 3. The b...
DEUTERONOMY 11. Continues the exhortation to love and obey Yahweh, giving motives and promises and pointing out the consequence of disobedience. Deuteronomy 11:2. Read (adding one Heb. consonant), for...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6....
Deuteronomy 10:12 to Deuteronomy 11:32. Final Exhortations, Introductory to the Laws Enforced by the preceding Retrospect, the discourse continues to urge its practical conclusions of full fear and l...
The summing up and clinching of the whole discourse, Deuteronomy 11:5-11: a blessing to Israel if they obey the commandments of God, a curse if they do not obey but turn after other gods. Cp. Deuteron...
DISCOURSE: 204 THE GREAT ALTERNATIVE Deuteronomy 11:26. _Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; a blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you th...
_VER._ 26. _A BLESSING AND A CURSE_— Concerning this blessing and curse, and its remarkable completion in the history of the Jews, we shall have occasion to speak more fully when we come to the 28th c...
8. THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE (Deuteronomy 11:26-32) 26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 27 the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, which...
_BEHOLD, I SET BEFORE YOU THIS DAY A BLESSING AND A CURSE;_ Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse - (see the note at Deuteronomy 27:11.)...
PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONCLUDED) Some injunctions to obedience, with the blessing it entails, and the curse that follows disobedience....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 V1 ‘Therefore, love the *LORD your God. Always *keep his instructions, his rules and his *co...
BEHOLD. — Another of the Jewish divisions of Deuteronomy begins here. A BLESSING AND A CURSE. — Literally, _blessing and cursing_ — _the blessing if ye obey, and the curse if ye do not. _...
רְאֵ֗ה אָנֹכִ֛י נֹתֵ֥ן לִ פְנֵיכֶ֖ם הַ יֹּ֑ום
ISRAEL'S ELECTION, AND MOTIVES FOR FAITHFULNESS Deuteronomy 9:1; Deuteronomy 10:1; Deuteronomy 11:1 THE remaining Chapter s of this special introduction to the statement of the actual laws beginni
THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE Deuteronomy 11:18 Never in this world do we reach a position from which it is impossible to fall away. The dew and the rain of God's blessing are contingent on obedience; a...
As Moses concluded his great call to the people to the pathway of obedience, he reminded them what varied experiences they had had from which they knew the nature of the government and power of God....
_Curse. Their respective effects you shall experience, according to your behaviour. (Calmet) --- God helps our free will to do good. (St. Augustine, q. 15.) (Worthington)_...
It is truly refreshing to attend to the practical exhortation which Moses makes, from what he had before said on this interesting subject, if interpreted upon gospel principles. There is indeed a bles...
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...
26._Behold, I set before you this day_. He now embraces the two points at once, viz., that they would be blessed if they earnestly apply themselves to the keeping of the Law, and cursed, if they shake...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8, 9, 10, AND 11. In chapter 8, in the most instructive and touching language as to the care God had taken of them, while keeping them in dependence, and His...
BEHOLD, I SET BEFORE YOU THIS DAY A BLESSING AND A CURSE,.... Meaning the law of God, and the statutes, judgments, and commandments of it; which, if obeyed, blessings would be bestowed upon them; but...
_I set before you_ I propose them to your consideration and your choice. So that if a curse should be your portion, instead of a blessing, and you should be in a calamitous and miserable, and not in a...
1 An exhortation to obedience, 2 by their owne experience of Gods great works, 8 by promise of Gods great blessings, 16 and by threatnings. 18 A carefull study is required in Gods words. 26 The b...
THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE...
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse, having told them what the result of obedience and of disobedience would be, he gives them their own choice, he wants them to make their own de...
SOWING AND REAPING (vs.1-32) This chapter emphasizes the results of obedience in contrast to the consequences of disobedience. It begins with the commandment to love the Lord their God, which of cour...
26-32 Moses sums up all the arguments for obedience in two words, the blessing and the curse. He charged the people to choose which they would have. Moses then appointed a public and solemn proclamat...
I propose them to your minds and to your choice....
"Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgements, and his commandments, alway. And know ye this day; for I speak not with your children which have...
Deuteronomy 11:26 Behold H7200 (H8798) set H5414 (H8802) before H6440 today H3117 blessing H1293 curse H7045
BLESSING AND CURSING (DEUTERONOMY 11:26). Most suzerainty treaties and some law codes had cursings against those who disobeyed their requirements, and many had both blessings and cursings. This was es...
CONTENTS: Warnings and exhortations to obedience. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The closer dependence we have had on God, the more cheerful should be our obedience to Him. In absolute obedienc...
Deuteronomy 11:10. _Water it with thy foot._ Egypt was watered periodically by the overflowing of the Nile; and the husbandman, following the retiring waters, sowed his seed. When the droughty season...
_A blessing and a curse._ TWO MOUNTAINS Mount Ebal, we are told, “is a barren, stony, and arid crag”; so would God “smite the apostates with barrenness, hunger, and misery.” Gerizim was “covered with...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 11:26 I AM SETTING BEFORE YOU TODAY. This expression, repeated in v. Deuteronomy 11:32, emphasizes the importance of makin
CRITICAL NOTES.— Deuteronomy 11:1 develops more fully the other features of Divine Requirements, Deuteronomy 10:12. Love must be seen in perpetual observance of commands. _Keep_, Leviticus 8:35;...
EXPOSITION Moses here renews his exhortation to obedience, enforced by regard to their experience of God's dealings with them in Egypt and in the wilderness, and by consideration of God's promises an...
In chapter eleven he continues his warnings to them, as they are about to come into the land. And he reminds them again of the miracles that God did for them in bringing them out of Egypt. How He spoi...
Deuteronomy 30:1; Deuteronomy 30:15; Galatians 3:10; Galatians 3:13;...
I set before you — I propose them to your choice....