PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONTINUED) The people are reminded of God's goodness to them at the time of the exodus and during their sojourn in the wilderness. They are exhorted to humility and obedience, and warned against worshipping strange gods. 2, 3. The events of the wanderings were intended to t... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH THOU KNEWEST NOT] see Exodus 16:15. BUT BY EVERY _word, etc._] If necessary God can sustain human life apart from the usual means. The Saviour had this trust in God and refused to create bread for himself: see Matthew 4:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
God who gives the life provides also the raiment and the bodily health: see Matthew 6:25. Jewish commentators understood this description literally, but it is evidently poetical and rhetorical. 6-20. A warning against pride and self-sufficiency: see on Deuteronomy 4:25. 7-9. The gifts of God in th... [ Continue Reading ]
Iron is found in various parts of Palestine, especially in the N. Basalt (see on Deuteronomy 3:11) is found E. of the Jordan. Copper, here called BRASS, is found in the Lebanon range and to the E. of the Dead Sea. We do not read of the Jews working mines in Canaan, but the writer of the book of Job... [ Continue Reading ]
AT THY LATTER END] i.e. by bringing them into the land of promise if they stood the test.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. 1 Chronicles 29:12.... [ Continue Reading ]