Cursed [be] he that confirmeth not [all] the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Ver. 26. Cursed.] Aut faciendum, aut patiendum. Men must either have the direction of the law, or the correction.
Verse Deuteronomy 27:26. _THAT CONFIRMETH NOT ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW_] The word כל _col_, ALL, is not found in any _printed_ copy of the _Hebrew_ text; but the _Samaritan_ preserves it, and so do _...
Compare Joshua 8:32. The solemnity was apparently designed only for the single occasion on which it actually took place. Deuteronomy 27:12, Deuteronomy 27:13...
23. THE MEMORIAL OF THE LAW AT MOUNT EBAL; GERIZIM AND EBAL CHAPTER 27 _ 1. The memorial to be set up in the land (Deuteronomy 27:1)_ 2. Gerizim and Ebal (Deuteronomy 27:9) Little comment is needed...
CONFIRMETH NOT. Compare Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 28:15.Jeremiah 11:3.Galatians 1:3;...
_confirmeth_ Lit. _establisheth_, 2 Kings 23:3; 2 Kings 23:24 of Josiah and the Book of the Law, Heb. _Tôrah_, as in Deuteronomy 1:5;...
_Cursed be_ The Heb. for this is simply the passive part. of the vb. -to curse" (the original sense of which may have been -to bind"), and may be rendered either _cursed be or cursed is_....
Appointment of the Levites to Curse According to 11 13 both a blessing and a curse were to be pronounced, here we have only curses, twelve in number. There _Levi_was one of six tribes appointed to bl...
DISCOURSE: 219 THE EXTENT AND EXCELLENCY OF THE MORAL LAW Deuteronomy 27:26. _Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them: And all the people shall say, Amen._ THE law here...
_VER._ 26. C_URSED BE HE THAT CONFIRMETH NOT ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW_— The original word, here rendered _confirmeth,_ is very properly translated _performeth,_ 1 Samuel 15:11. The performing of what...
THOUGHT QUESTIONS 27:15-26 473. Try to imagine the great attraction of idolatry. There must have been some rationalization, attempt to express it. 474. What is meant by the use of the word light a...
27:26 confirmeth (a-5) Lit. 'establisheth.'...
Cp. Galatians 3:26. As no mere man is able perfectly to keep the whole law, St. Paul argues that part at least of the purpose of the Mosaic Law was to teach men to despair of obtaining righteousness '...
CEREMONIES TO BE OBSERVED ON REACHING CANAAN This chapter has probably been misplaced, as it seems to break the connexion between Deuteronomy 26 and Deuteronomy 28. It ordains four ceremonies to be ob...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 27 V1 Moses and the leaders of the *Israelites ordered the people. ‘*Keep all the *commandments...
CURSED BE HE THAT CONFIRMETH NOT ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW TO DO THEM. — “Here he sums up the whole Law, all of it, and they took it upon them with a curse and an oath” (Rashi). From this verse St. Pa...
אָר֗וּר אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹא ־יָקִ֛ים אֶת ־דִּבְרֵ֥י ה
MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
CURSES UPON EVILDOERS Deuteronomy 27:1 Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal were two masses of limestone rock, reaching 2700 and 2000 feet above the sea-level. Between them lay a beautiful valley, about 300...
We have here the record of something distinctive and arresting. Immediately after the close of the second discourse containing a r6sum6 I of laws, Moses and the elders commanded the people that after...
In the. The Samaritan, Septuagint, and St. Paul (Galatians iii. 10) read, in all the words, &c., which must probably be understood of the principal points of the law, specified in the preceding verses...
REFLECTIONS How sweet and refreshing to my soul are the views of JESUS, as the high priest and altar, and offering of my heart, in the moment that I read the solemn charges of GOD'S law, and the dread...
I detain not the Reader with observations concerning the several curses here pronounced, or entering into the particulars of them. It is enough to remark, that they express their several sentences of...
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...
26._Cursed is he that confirmeth not_. Although it was God’s purpose to summon the consciences of all men before Him, and, in order that they might not only fear human judgments, He designedly threate...
Now comes the sanction-that is to say, that which gives vigour to His law-in the consequences (blessings and curses) which were to correspond with obedience or disobedience. This is brought out in cha...
CURSED [BE] HE THAT CONFIRMETH NOT [ALL] THE WORDS OF THIS LAW TO DO THEM,.... That is, who does not perfectly perform all that the law requires, and continues to do so; for the law requires obedience...
_Confirmeth not_ Or, _performeth not._ To this we must all say, Amen! Owning ourselves to be under the curse, and that we must have perished for ever, if Christ had not redeemed us from the curse of t...
1 The people are commanded to write the Law vpon stones, 5 and to build an Altar of whole stones. 11 The Tribes diuided on Gerizzim and Ebal. 14 The curses pronounced on mount Ebal. 1 AND Moses wi...
Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this Law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. This last curse, which condemns any and every transgression of the divine Law, shows that the...
THE CURSE PRONOUNCED FROM MOUNT EBAL...
A MEMORIAL ON MOUNT EBAL (vs.1-10) With the directive again to keep all the commandments of the Lord, Moses gave Israel instructions, when they get into the land, to set up large stones coated with...
11-26 The six tribes appointed for blessing, were all children of the free women, for to such the promise belongs, Galatians 4:31. Levi is here among the rest. Ministers should apply to themselves th...
CONFIRMETH NOT, i.e. performeth not; for he that transgresseth doth in some sort destroy and make void the law of God, as to the main end for which it was given, even to the regulation of his life and...
"And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which...
Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed H779 (H8803) confirm H6965 (H8686) H6213 (H8800) words H1697 law H8451 people...
MOSES DESCRIBES HOW THE COVENANT CEREMONY WILL PROCEED ONCE THEY HAVE REACHED SHECHEM (DEUTERONOMY 27:11). On that same day as he had spoken all the words from Deuteronomy 5:1 onwards and given instru...
CONTENTS: The blessing and cursing from Mt. Ebal and Gerizim. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: We are all compelled to say Amen to the law of God, owning ourselves justly under its curse and that...
Deuteronomy 27:2. _Great stones,_ thought to be twelve in each pillar; they wrote the curses on the one pillar, and the blessings on the other. Deuteronomy 27:3. _Thou shalt write upon them all the wo...
_Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark._ THE LANDMARKS OF FAITH The landmarks of faith are just the truth which God has revealed to men, and the duty which He requires of them. Among th...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 27:1 Moses’ Third Speech: Blessings and Curses. Ancient covenant treaties included blessings for keeping the treaty conditions and curses for not keeping them (see char...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 27:26 The list of 12 curses is merely a sample of the law. It is not meant to include all situations. Paul quotes this verse in Galatians 3:10 to show that no huma
CRITICAL NOTES.—Connect this chapter with Deuteronomy 27:16 of preceding one, where Moses concludes discourse on plains of Moab. Here he dwells on sanctions of the law and sets forth in striking detai...
PART III.—THIRD DISCOURSE OF MOSES. THE COVENANT RENEWED. CHAPTERS 27-30. EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 27:1. INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE PU
In chapter twenty-seven, when you come into the land you are to take these stones and you are to build a tower and you are to plaster it. And then you are to write on the plaster of the tower the word...
1 Corinthians 16:22; Deuteronomy 27:15; Deuteronomy 28:15; Ezekiel 18:24;...
Confirmeth not — Or, performeth not. To this we must all say, Amen! Owning ourselves to be under the curse, and that we must have perished for ever, if Christ had not redeemed us from the curse of the...