The priests spake unto all Israel They assisted Moses in pressing the people to attend duly to the meaning and design of this solemnity. Thou art become the people of the Lord By thy solemn renewing of thy covenant with him.
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...
TAKE HEED. keep silence, or, take note....
Further Enforcement of the Law These _vv_. with their sequel in Deuteronomy 28:1 repeat the substance and, with variations, the phraseology of Deuteronomy 16:6-19. They have been taken as the link be...
_the priests the Levites_ See on Deuteronomy 18:1, and cp. Deuteronomy 10:8 f. The association of the Levites with Moses in the enforcement of the Law is striking; and as only one speaker is implied b...
B. CURSES TO BE REPEATED FROM MT. EBAL (Deuteronomy 27:9-26) 9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Keep silence, and hearken, O Israel: This day thou art become the p...
_AND THOU SHALT OFFER PEACE OFFERINGS, AND SHALT EAT THERE, AND REJOICE BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
MOSES AND THE PRIESTS. — As in Deuteronomy 27:1, “Moses and the elders.” TAKE HEED. — A word used nowhere else in the Old Testament. THIS DAY THOU ART BECOME THE PEOPLE. — “Every day His commandments...
וַ יְדַבֵּ֤ר מֹשֶׁה֙ וְ הַ כֹּהֲנִ֣ים הַ
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...
The repeated charges and cautions given, imply the vast importance of the thing itself. Deuteronomy 30:11....
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...
The ground of his exhortation is again taken from the special favor of adoption, wherewith the God of Abraham had honored them; for there was nothing which should have more _effectually _stimulated th...
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...
AND MOSES AND THE PRIESTS THE LEVITES SPAKE UNTO ALL ISRAEL,.... The priests who were Levites, as all the priests that were lawful ones were; and there were none but such at this time, who were. Eleaz...
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...
And Moses and the priests, the Levites, the children of Levi, SPAKE UNTO ALL ISRAEL, SAYING, TAKE HEED AND HEARKEN, listen very quietly, in order not to lose one word, O ISRAEL; THIS DAY THOU ART BECO...
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...
1-10 As soon as they were come into Canaan, they must set up a monument, on which they must write the words of this law. They must set up an altar. The word and prayer must go together. Though they m...
By thy solemn renewing of thy covenant with him....
"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 27:9 Moses H4872 priests H3548 Levites H3881 spoke H1696 (H8762) Israel H3478 saying H559 (H8800)
THE PRIESTS AS THE PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVES BEFORE YAHWEH CONFIRM THE COVENANT (DEUTERONOMY 27:9). The levitical priests had their own special responsibility for the fulfilment of the instruction of Y...
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...
_Obey the voice of the lord thy god._ OF OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S REVEALED WILL I. What is the rule of obedience? The written Word. II. What are the right ingredients in our obedience to make it acceptab...
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 27:9 YOU HAVE BECOME THE PEOPLE OF THE LORD. Compare Exodus 19:5;...
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 6:9; 1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:11; Deuteronomy 26:16;...
The people of the Lord — By thy solemn renewing of thy covenant with him....