Verse Deuteronomy 11:29. _THOU SHALT PUT THE BLESSING UPON MOUNT GERIZIM, AND_ _THE CURSE UPON MOUNT EBAL._] The etymology of these names may be supposed to cast some light on this institution. גרזים...
THOU SHALT PUT THE BLESSING UPON MOUNT GERIZIM - literally, thou shalt give, i. e., “give” utterance to it. On the ceremony see Deuteronomy 27:14 ff. Mount Gerizim, barren like Ebal, was probably sele...
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...
GERIZIM. North of Shechem. Compare Joshua 8:33; Joshua 8:34, and see Deuteronomy 27:12. EBAL. South of Shechem. Both mounts here named for first time. Not mentioned after Judges....
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...
A return to the Sg. form of address, with phrases peculiar to that form (see Deuteronomy 6:10; Deuteronomy 7:1). Whether it is original here, or dependent on Deuteronomy 27:12 f. (cp....
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...
_AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN THE LORD THY GOD HATH BROUGHT THEE IN UNTO THE LAND WHITHER THOU GOEST TO POSSESS IT, THAT THOU SHALT PUT THE BLESSING UPON MOUNT GERIZIM, AND THE CURSE UPON MOUNT EBA...
PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONCLUDED) Some injunctions to obedience, with the blessing it entails, and the curse that follows disobedience....
PUT THE BLESSING, etc.] This refers either to the erection of the stones inscribed with the blessings and the curses, or to the placing of the two companies mentioned in Deuteronomy 27:12; Deuteronomy...
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...
THE BLESSING... AND THE CURSE... — The Targum of Onkelos says, “Those that bless,” and “those that curse.” (See Deuteronomy 27:12, and Note.[1]) [1] The other Targums say, “When they bless they shall...
וְ הָיָ֗ה כִּ֤י יְבִֽיאֲךָ֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ...
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....
Put the blessing, &c. See Deuteronomy xxvii. 12, &c., and Josue viii. 33, &c. (Challoner) --- Six tribes were to be stationed on each of these mountains, chap. xxviii. --- Garizim. Eusebius says that...
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...
29._And it shall come to pass, when the Lord_. I have lately expounded a similar passage, which, although it is subsequent in the order observed by Moses, yet, inasmuch as it sets out the matter more...
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...
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN THE LORD THY GOD HATH BOUGHT THEE INTO THE LAND WHITHER THOU GOEST TO POSSESS IT,.... Which is often observed, as being near at hand; and when and where many things wer...
And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal...
_Put_ Hebrew, _Thou shalt give;_ that is, speak, or pronounce, or cause to be pronounced. This is more particularly expressed Deuteronomy 27:12. _Over against_ Looking toward Gilgal, though at some co...
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...
And it shall come to pass, when the Lord, thy God, hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon Mount Gerizim and the curse upon Mount Eba...
THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE...
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...
THOU SHALT PUT THE BLESSING, Heb. _thou shalt give_, i.e. speak or pronounce, or cause to be pronounced. So the word _to give_ is used, DEUTERONOMY 13:1,2 JOB 36:3 PROVERBS 9:9. This is more particula...
"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 11:29 LORD H3068 God H430 into H935 (H8686) land H776 go H935 (H8802) possess H3423 ...
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...
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...
1 Kings 11:1; 2 Chronicles 3:1; 2 Kings 23:13; 2 Samuel 1:21; 2 S
Put — Heb. Thou shalt give, that is, speak or pronounce, or cause to be pronounced. So the word to give is used, Deuteronomy 13:1; Job 36:3; Proverbs 9:9. This is, more particularly expressed,...