9 10:11. Warnings against Self-Righteousness, enforced by a Retrospect of the People's Behaviour Israel about to cross Jordan and face nations mightier than itself must know that Jehovah goeth before, quickly to destroy them (vv. Deuteronomy 9:1-3). Israel must not thereafter say that He hath done... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hear, O Israel_ Deuteronomy 6:4. _thou art to pass over Jordan this day_ Similarly Deuteronomy 30:18 (and cp. Deuteronomy 2:18), Sg.; Deuteronomy 4:14; Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 11:31; Deuteronomy 31:13, Pl., but apparently editorial. _to possess_ or DISPOSSESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
_great and tall … Anakim_ See on Deuteronomy 1:28. _whom thou knowest_, etc.] Deuteronomy 7:15; _and hast heard say_, Deuteronomy 1:28; Numbers 13:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Know therefore_ See on Deuteronomy 7:9. _he which goeth over before thee_ Deuteronomy 31:3 (cp. Joshua 3:11). _a devouring fire_ Only here and Deuteronomy 4:24. _he shall destroy … and he he_emphatic. _bring them down before thee_ In D the verb is found only here: it is used also of the subjecti... [ Continue Reading ]
_Speak … in thine heart_ See on Deuteronomy 8:17. _thrust them out_ See on Deuteronomy 6:19. _For my righteousness_ Here ethical: contr. Deuteronomy 6:25. _whereas for the wickedness … from before thee_ The whole clause is wanting in LXX B and seems a gloss or expansion anticipating the next _v_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_dost thou go in to possess_ Characteristic of the Sg. passages. _the wickedness of these nations wickedness_the direct opposite of _righteousness_; in disputes as to justice the _wicked_is the man who is in the wrong (Deuteronomy 25:1; Exodus 2:13 (J), Deuteronomy 23:1; Deuteronomy 23:7 (E), see no... [ Continue Reading ]
_Know therefore_ See on Deuteronomy 7:9: the verse begins by giving the conclusion of the previous proof, but adds also another _for thou art a stiffnecked people_ Apparently first used of Israel (in connection with the golden calf) in J, Exodus 33:3; Exodus 34:9 (Exodus 32:9; Exodus 33:5 are editor... [ Continue Reading ]
_Remember, forget thou not_ More musical without the intervening _and_which Sam. inserts. _thou provokedst … to wrath_ See on Deuteronomy 1:34. 7 _b_. It is in this clause that the Sg. form of address ceases and the Pl. begins, to continue up to Deuteronomy 10:9 or 11. Coincidently exhortation is... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN (or particularly) _in Horeb_ The most notorious rebellion of all. Here begins the recital of the sin of the golden calf as in Exodus 32-34, JE. _provoked_, etc.] Deuteronomy 9:7. _was angry_ See on Deuteronomy 1:37.... [ Continue Reading ]
Based on Exodus 24:13; Exodus 24:15 _a_, Exodus 24:18 _b_, E, Exodus 34:28, J, this verse omits E's reference to the elders and Aaron, Exodus 24:14, and of course has no reference to the interlaced sentences of P, _id._Exodus 24:15 _b_ Exodus 24:18 _a_; to _the tables of stone_it adds _even the tabl... [ Continue Reading ]
_tables of stone written with the finger of God_ Taken exactly from. Exodus 31:18 _b_, E: the divine name is not changed to the usual _the Lord thy God_. With His own voice, face to face, God spake the words of the covenant (Deuteronomy 4:12 f., Deuteronomy 5:4) and now with His own finger wrote the... [ Continue Reading ]
Taken from E, Exodus 32:7-8 _a_(on which see notes) with the addition of _quickly from here_and the substitution of _brought forth_(D's favourite expression) for _brought up_; and the omission of _calf_. _corrupted themselves_ Deuteronomy 4:16; Deuteronomy 4:25; Deuteronomy 31:29 also Pl. passages:... [ Continue Reading ]
_stiffnecked_ See on Deuteronomy 9:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
_let me alone] desist from me_; Exodus 32:10 _let me rest_, give me peace. _destroy_ See on Deuteronomy 1:27. _blot out their name_, etc.] Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 25:19: cp. synonym in Deuteronomy 7:24 _q.v._Not in Exodus 32:10. _a nation mightier and greater_ Expansion of _great nation_, E... [ Continue Reading ]
_So I turned and came down_, etc.] Exodus 32:15. _and the mount burned with fire_ A circumstantial clause: _the mount_all the time _burning with fire_: not in Ex. In the next clause D adds _two_to _hands_. 16A. Substantially the same as Exodus 32:19 _a_. 16B. Purely deuteronomic tradition: see De... [ Continue Reading ]
Vivid variation and expansion of Exodus 32:19 _b_: _and Moses" anger waxed hot and he cast the tables out of his hands and brake them beneath the mount_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_as at the first_ Refers to what follows it the length of time and the fasting not to what precedes the falling down before God. This intercession seems to be the same as that described in Deuteronomy 10:10 and -anticipated here on account of its importance in the argument" (Driver). Cp. Exodus 32:3... [ Continue Reading ]
_For I was afraid_ or _trembled_Deuteronomy 28:60. _that time also_ Obscure, and probably an editorial addition, unless the reference is to Deuteronomy 9:10 or to Exodus 15:25; Exodus 17:4 f. and other occasions. It is possible there was originally no mention of God's answer here. It seems a little... [ Continue Reading ]
To this there is no reference in Exodus.... [ Continue Reading ]
Characteristically expanded, with variations, from Exodus 32:20: one item in the latter, _and made the children of Israel drink of it_, is omitted.... [ Continue Reading ]
Other instances of Israel's rebelliousness: _Tab-erah_, -Burning-place," because fire broke out on them there, Numbers 11:1-3, E; _Massah_, -Proof," for there they put God to the proof, Exodus 17:7, J; _Ḳibroth-hat-ta"avah_, -Graves of Lust," Numbers 11:31-34, J. _ye provoked_, etc.] As in Deuteron... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye have been rebellious_ As in Deuteronomy 9:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
_So I fell down_, etc.] Having recounted in Deuteronomy 9:22 the accumulated burdens of the people's sins (there is therefore no need to doubt the originality of these verses, as Steuernagel does) under which he fell down, the speaker returns to the fact of his falling; and in... [ Continue Reading ]
_And I prayed_, etc.] details his intercession. Cp. Exodus 32:11-13, JE, but probably editorial. Here the deuteronomic additions are _which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness_(_greatness_in Pl. passages Deuteronomy 5:24, here and Deuteronomy 11:2); _look not unto the stubbornness of this peopl... [ Continue Reading ]