Conditions of Restoration from Exile When Israel, scattered among the nations, returns to Jehovah and obeys Him (Deuteronomy 30:1 f.), He will gather the nation again, even to its furthest outcasts (Deuteronomy 30:3 f.), and will not only restore it to its land, but work in it a full love to Himsel... [ Continue Reading ]
_all these things are come upon thee_ Deuteronomy 4:30. _the blessing and the curse_, etc.] Deuteronomy 11:26; cp. Deuteronomy 4:8. _Blessing_as well as _curse_, because the memory that God, in His faithfulness, had blessed them, in such times as they were obedient, and therefore might be trusted t... [ Continue Reading ]
Expansion of Deuteronomy 4:30 _b_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_turn thy captivity_ The Heb. phrase can hardly mean this, for the return from captivity comes later in this passage, in Deuteronomy 30:4, and such a sense is impossible in Job 42:10. Render TURN THY FORTUNE. So Amos 9:14; Hosea 6:11; Ezekiel 16:53; Ezekiel 16:55, and frequently in Jer. _have compa... [ Continue Reading ]
_If_any of _thine outcasts_ quoted in Nehemiah 1:9; cp. above Deuteronomy 30:1 (_driven_), Deuteronomy 28:64, and in another sense Deuteronomy 22:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
_will bring thee into the land_ See on Deuteronomy 6:10. _do thee good_ Deuteronomy 8:16; Deuteronomy 28:63. _multiply_ See on Deuteronomy 6:3 and Deuteronomy 13:17 (18).... [ Continue Reading ]
_will circumcise thine heart_ See on Deuteronomy 10:16, and in contrast Deuteronomy 29:4; and cp. Jeremiah 31:33. _to love_, etc.] See on Deuteronomy 6:5. _that thou mayest live_ lit. FOR THE SAKE OF THY LIFE, Deuteronomy 30:16_; Deuteronomy 30:19_, Deuteronomy 16:20, all... [ Continue Reading ]
curses] Heb. _-alôth_, Deuteronomy 29:20 f. (19 f.), _q.v._; and not _ḳelalôth_as in Deuteronomy 30:1 and ch. 28. Because of this and the fact that the _v_. breaks the connection between Deuteronomy 30:6_; Deuteronomy 30:8_it is probably an intrusion (Dillm.). With it cp. Deuteronomy 7:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THOU, THYSELF, _shalt_, etc.] The emphatic _thou_is necessary after the intrusion of the previous _v_. _return_ If this be meant in a spiritual sense, the like does not elsewhere occur in Deut.; but is found in Isaiah 10:21; Isaiah 19:22; Jeremiah 3:1; Jeremiah 3:7; Jeremiah 3:12; Jeremiah 3:22... [ Continue Reading ]
See Deuteronomy 28:11; Deuteronomy 28:63.... [ Continue Reading ]
Possibly an editorial transition to the next section (so Steuern.). _written in this book of the law_ Cp. Deuteronomy 29:20; here the text curiously gives _written_in the sing. participle, as if quoting from there. _turn unto_, etc.] See on Deuteronomy 30:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
_This commandment Miṣwah_, see on Deuteronomy 5:31; Deuteronomy 8:1. Here probably both the substance of the Law the enforcement of a loyal, loving obedience to Jehovah and its various statutes and judgements. _which I command thee this day_ Deuteronomy 8:1; Deuteronomy 27:1, etc. _too hard_ So in... [ Continue Reading ]
The Close of the Concluding Addresses The commandment is not too hard nor distant, but near, articulate, intelligible and practicable (Deuteronomy 30:11-14). Sheer life and death, good and evil, is set before Israel. Obedience means blessing, apostasy destruction (Deuteronomy 30:15-19 _a_). Choose... [ Continue Reading ]
The Conscience of the Law... [ Continue Reading ]
_not in heaven_ Not among the _hidden things_still with God, Deuteronomy 29:29 (28), and requiring a mediator. God has not left men to hunger for it; it has been mediated and heard.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Neither … beyond the sea_ Nor has Israel to search for it among other peoples.... [ Continue Reading ]
_But the word is very nigh unto thee]_So of God Himself, Deuteronomy 4:7, _q.v._, explained by what follows, _in thy mouth and in thy heart_(cp. Deuteronomy 6:6 f., Deuteronomy 11:18 f.), articulate, understood and familiar (especially after so much exposition of it!). The speaker does not add that... [ Continue Reading ]
The Peroration to the Discourses 15. Cp. Jeremiah 21:8. _set before thee this day_ Deuteronomy 4:8. _life and good_, etc.] Cp. Deuteronomy 11:26: _blessing and curse_. For _death and evil_cp. Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 8:19, etc.... [ Continue Reading ]
The constr. of the Heb. is faulty but may be restored from the LXX thus: _If thou hearken to the commandment of the Lord thy God which I command thee_(Dillm.). For Deuteronomy 30:16 _a_see on Deuteronomy 13:4 (5): _his commandments_(wanting in LXX), Deuteronomy 4:2; _statutes and judgements_, Deuter... [ Continue Reading ]
_But if thine heart turn away_ Deuteronomy 29:18 (17); for _drawn away_see Deuteronomy 4:19; Deuteronomy 13:13 (14); for _worship and serve_see on Deuteronomy 4:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
_denounce_ An archaism for _announce_. The Heb. simply means _declare_, Deuteronomy 17:9; Deuteronomy 17:11, R.V. _shew_and _tell_of a judgement, i.e. _make it public_; Deuteronomy 26:3 R.V. _profess_. _unto you_ Change to the Pl. address confirmed by Sam. LXX; it is striking that the following phra... [ Continue Reading ]
_I call heaven and earth_, etc.] As in Deuteronomy 4:26. _set before thee life and death_ See on Deuteronomy 30:15. _choose life_ In Deut. only here; but cp. Joshua 24:15; Isaiah 7:15 (choose the good). On _that thou mayest live_see Deuteronomy 30:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
_love … obey … cleave_ See on Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 10:20; Deuteronomy 13:4 (5). _for_ THAT _is thy life_, etc.] Variant from Deuteronomy 4:1; Deuteronomy 4:40, etc. _sware_ See on Deuteronomy 1:8.... [ Continue Reading ]