Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Deuteronomy 27:5
An altar of stones. — Rashi propounds the theory that these stones were taken from Jordan. But there is nothing to countenance this theory in the words of the text.
An altar of stones. — Rashi propounds the theory that these stones were taken from Jordan. But there is nothing to countenance this theory in the words of the text.
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...
IRON. Probably. technical name for. chisel, as we now associate it with. laundry or. prison....
Erection of Stones for the Inscription of the Law, and of an Altar Moses and the elders charged the people to keep the commandment (1); when they cross Jordan they shall set up stones and, whitening...
_no iron_ Exodus 20:25, _tool_(_ḥéreb_), which would have _polluted_the altar. The later D's substitution of _iron_is striking. See on Deuteronomy 8:9....
Cp. E, Exodus 20:24 f. with Driver's notes....
_VER._ 4, 5. _IN MOUNT EBAL_— Dr. Parry has given a very just turn to this passage, remarking well from Noldius, that we should not read _in mount Ebal,_ but BY _mount Ebal,_ as, in the 12th and 13th...
_VER._ 5. _AN ALTAR OF STONES_— It does not seem probable, that the altar was built of the _very same stones_ on which the law was engraven; for this evident reason, that the altar was to be built of...
LESSON TWENTY-ONE DEUTERONOMY 27:1 TO DEUTERONOMY 28:68 III. THE THIRD DISCOURSE Future of Israel Foretold (Deuteronomy 27:1 to...
_AND THERE SHALT THOU BUILD AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD THY GOD, AN ALTAR OF STONES: THOU SHALT NOT LIFT UP ANY IRON TOOL UPON THEM._ There shalt thou build an altar ... of whole stones. The stones were t...
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...
Cp. Exodus 20:24 and notes there. 9, 10. The Levites are addressed here because it was their duty to pronounce the blessings and the curses, to which the people responded with 'Amen.' 11-13. On EBAL...
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...
וּ בָנִ֤יתָ שָּׁם֙ מִזְבֵּ֔חַ לַ יהוָ֖ה אֱלֹה
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...
And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up [any] (c) iron [tool] upon them. (c) The altar should not be curiously wrought, because it would...
_Stones: the same as those which composed the monument, (Calmet) or rather different from them, (Menochius) as those were polished, ver. 2._...
I beg the Reader not to overlook the plainness to be observed in the building of this altar: nothing of human art or labour was to be joined with it, nor any human tool to pollute it. And as CHRIST is...
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...
5_And there shalt thou build an altar. _At their first entrance into the land, God commands that a sacrifice of thanksgiving should be offered to Him; and this Joshua performed, as is related in Joshu...
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 THERE SHALL THOU BUILD AN ALTAR TO THE LORD THY GOD,.... On the same mountain, though not of the same stones. Jarchi's note is, "after that (the setting up of the plastered stones) thou shalt bri...
And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up [any] iron [tool] upon them. Ver. 5. _Thou shalt build an altar._] For burnt offerings, &c. Deu 2...
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...
And there shalt thou build an altar unto the Lord, thy God, an altar of stones; thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them, the stones were to be neither plastered nor hewn, Exodus 20:22....
THE STONE MONUMENT...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
"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 27:5 build H1129 (H8804) altar H4196 LORD H3068 God H430 altar H4196 stones H68 use H5130 ...
_ e-Sword Note: _ For the section, "Deuteronoomy 27 Paraellels Exodus 24 ", see the chapter comments. For the section, "Shechem Was To Be The First ‘Place (Maqom) Which Yahweh Shall Choose', " see t...
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...
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 27:4 TODAY. See note on vv. 2–3. MOUNT EBAL is north of Shechem (see...
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 Kings 18:31; 1 Kings 18:32; Exodus 20:25; Exodus 24:4; Joshua 8:30;...