Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Deuteronomy 27:16
That setteth light Or despiseth in his heart; or reproacheth or curseth secretly: for if the fact were notorious, it was punished with death.
That setteth light Or despiseth in his heart; or reproacheth or curseth secretly: for if the fact were notorious, it was punished with death.
Verse Deuteronomy 27:16. _SETTETH LIGHT BY HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER._] Exodus 20:12, Exodus 20:12....
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...
SETTETH LIGHT. Compare Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 19:3....
_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_....
Cp. Deuteronomy 5:16; Deuteronomy 21:18 ff.; E, Exodus 20:11; Exodus 21:17; H,...
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...
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...
_CURSED BE HE THAT SETTETH LIGHT BY HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN._ Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. To this day every Jew, as well as Mussu...
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 SETTETH LIGHT. — The first curse points to the first two commandments of the first table, and the second to the first commandment in the second table. If we mark off the first offenc...
אָר֕וּר מַקְלֶ֥ה אָבִ֖יו וְ אִמֹּ֑ו וְ אָמַ֥ר
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...
Cursed [be] he that (i) setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. (i) Or, condemns; and this applies to the second table....
Honoureth not. Hebrew, "curseth." Septuagint, "despiseth." See Leviticus xx. 9. --- "Exodus xxi. 17., Moses proclaimed, He that curseth his father or (Hebrew and) mother, shall die the death. " But he...
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...
16._Cursed be he that setteth light by his father_. What follows refers to the Second Table of the Law; and, first, He pronounces those cursed who should be undutiful ( _impii_) to their parents; for...
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 SETTETH LIGHT BY HIS FATHER, OR HIS MOTHER,.... That secretly despises them in his heart, and by looks and gestures mocks at them in a private manner, unseen by others, Proverbs 30...
Cursed [be] he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. Ver. 16. _That setteth light._] That despises, undervalues, not only that curses, as Exodus 21:17 ....
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...
THE CURSE PRONOUNCED FROM MOUNT EBAL...
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother, Exodus 21:17. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN....
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...
SETTETH LIGHT; or, _despiseth_ in his heart; or _reproacheth_ or _curseth_, to wit, secretly, as before; for if the fact was notorious, it was punished with death, LEVITICUS 20:9....
"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 27:16 Cursed H779 (H8803) treats H7034 father H1 mother H517 contempt H7034 (H8688) people H5971 sa
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 27:16 On dishonoring FATHER and MOTHER, see Deuteronomy 5:16....
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...
Deuteronomy 21:18; Exodus 20:12; Exodus 21:17; Ezekiel 22:7;...
Light — Or, despiseth in his heart: or reproacheth or curseth, secretly: for if the fact was notorious, it was punished with death....