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3. HEARKEN, O ISRAEL!
CHAPTER 4
_ 1. Obedience demanded (Deuteronomy 4:1)_
2. The covenant to be observed (Deuteronomy 4:9)
3. Take heed unto yourselves lest ye forget (Deuteronomy 4:15
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SECOND PART OF MOSES-' FIRST ADDRESS. This contains exhortations to
obedience from motives of self-interest and of gratitude to Yahweh,
and forms an apparent logical unity with Deuteronomy 1:6 to
Deut...
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YOURSELVES. your souls. Hebrew. _nephesh._ See Deuteronomy 4:9 above
and App-13....
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_ye saw no manner of form_ Resumes and repeats the reminder in
Deuteronomy 4:12 in a way that would have been unnecessary but for the
digression in 13 f.; and proves that the latter is original. _Form...
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Against Idolatry
The truth that is beneath the whole Law: God is revealed not in
images, but by words and deeds of redemption. Warned to lay their
experience to heart (Deuteronomy 4:9), Israel are re...
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b. WARNING AGAINST MAKING PHYSICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF GOD OR GODS
(Deuteronomy 4:15-24)
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner
of form on the day that Jehovah spake unto...
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_TAKE YE THEREFORE GOOD HEED UNTO YOURSELVES; FOR YE SAW NO MANNER OF
SIMILITUDE ON THE DAY THAT THE LORD SPAKE UNTO YOU IN HOREB OUT OF THE
MIDST OF THE FIRE:_
Take ... good heed ... (for ye saw no...
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EXHORTATIONS TO OBEDIENCE
This chapter contains the practical part of the discourse. Having
briefly rehearsed the experiences of the Israelites in the wilderness
up to the present point, Moses closes...
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The foundation of true religion and morals is a right conception of
the nature of God. In the first and second commandments of the
Decalogue Israel had been taught the truths of the unity and
spiritua...
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FIRST DISCOURSE (DEUTERONOMY 1:14 TO DEUTERONOMY 4:43)
The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The
Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the
Promised Land...
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 4
V1 ‘Therefore, everyone in *Israel, listen to the rules and the
laws that I will teach to you...
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YE SAW NO MANNER OF SIMILITUDE. — The worship of the _invisible_
Jehovah is here specially insisted on. The difficulty of learning to
worship one whom we cannot see is, happily, one which our educatio...
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וְ נִשְׁמַרְתֶּ֥ם מְאֹ֖ד לְ
נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶ֑ם כִּ֣י...
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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JEHOVAH “A JEALOUS GOD”
Deuteronomy 4:15
How often Moses repeats, “ _take heed._ ” We must watch as well as
pray and keep our souls diligently. We must specially beware of
idols-that is, any visible...
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On the ground of this survey Moser exhorted the people to be obedient,
His appeal was based on the greatness of their God and the perfection
of His law. Their whole existence as a nation centered arou...
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Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no (l) manner
of similitude on the day [that] the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out
of the midst of the fire:
(l) Signifying, that destruction i...
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Carefully. Hebrew, "Be therefore particularly attentive, as much as
you love your own soul." (Vatable) By keeping my commandments you can
alone obtain salvation, ver. 9. (Menochius) --- Similitude of...
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Moses lays great stress upon the prohibition to similitudes: not only
condemning all improper resemblances, but all resemblances. "To what
will ye liken me?" saith the LORD. Isaiah 40:18. How sweet is...
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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...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1, 2, 3, AND 4.
Let us examine a little more closely these Chapter s, which shew the
pains the Spirit took, to set before the eyes of the people all the
moti...
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TAKE YE THEREFORE GOOD HEED UNTO YOURSELVES,.... As to keep all the
laws given them, so particularly to avoid idolatry:
FOR YE SAW NO MANNER OF SIMILITUDE ON THE DAY THE LORD SPAKE UNTO YOU
IN HOREB...
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Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of
similitude on the day [that] the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of
the midst of the fire:
Ver. 15. _Take ye therefore good heed....
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_Ye saw no similitude in Horeb_ God, who, in some other places and
times, did appear in a human form, now in this most solemn appearance,
when he came to give eternal laws for the direction of the Isr...
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1 An Exhortation to obedience.
41 Moses appointeth the three Cities of refuge on that side Iordan.
1 NOWE therefore hearken, O Israel, vnto the Statutes, and vnto the
Iudgments which I teach you, fo...
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WARNING AGAINST IDOLATRY...
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Take ye, therefore, good heed unto yourselves, every one was to watch
carefully over his soul; FOR YE SAW NO MANNER OF SIMILITUDE, no form
or outline which could be used as the basis for a picture, ON...
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MOSES INSISTS ON OBEDIENCE
(vs.1-14)
Because God had already blessed Israel and intended to bless them more
greatly still. Moses urges them to "listen to the statutes and
judgments" he is teaching th...
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1-23 The power and love of God to Israel are here made the ground and
reason of a number of cautions and serious warnings; and although
there is much reference to their national covenant, yet all may...
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By which caution he insinuates man's great proneness to the worship of
images. God, who in other places and times did appear in a similitude,
in the fashion of a man, now in this most solemn appearanc...
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Now therefore hearken O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
judgements which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go
in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth...
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Deuteronomy 4:15 careful H3966 heed H8104 (H8738) yourselves H5315 saw
H7200 (H8804) form H8544 when H3117 LO
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THEY ARE TO REMEMBER THAT YAHWEH IS WITHOUT FORM, AND IS A CONSUMING
FIRE, AND MUST THEREFORE AVOID MAKING ANY GRAVEN IMAGE FOR WORSHIP
PURPOSES FOR THAT WOULD BE TO ADULTERATE AND MISREPRESENT YAHWEH...
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SAW NO MANNER
(_ See Scofield) - (John 1:18). _...
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CONTENTS: The new generations taught the lessons of Sinai. Cities of
refuge designated.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: The review of God's providences concerning us should
quicken us and engage...
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Deuteronomy 4:2. _Ye shall not add unto the word._ This would be to
debase revelation, and treat the divine law as a defective production
of man, that needed additions and retrenchments. Solon, the At...
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_Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go
in and possess the land._
MOSES’ DISCOURSE
1. In general it is...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 4:15 Because God does not have a
visible form, the worship of idols and images is prohibited (see the
second commandment, Deuteronomy 5:8)....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—From the mention of what God had done for Israel,
Moses passes to the obedience of the law. They were under deep
obligation to keep it, and in doing so, consisted their wisdom,
greatne...
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EXPOSITION
DEUTERONOMY 4:1
ADMONITIONS AND EXHORTATIONS. Moses, having presented to the people
certain facts in their recent history which had in them a specially
animating and encouraging tendency,...
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NOW therefore (Deuteronomy 4:1)
Moses is now making application.
NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and to the
judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that you may live, and go in
a...
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1 Chronicles 28:10; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Deuteronomy
4:12;...
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PARTING WORDS
Deuteronomy 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
It is, perhaps, strange to some that we speak of the fourth chapter of
Deuteronomy as "Parting words," yet the whole Book of Deuteronomy
centers in t...
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In Horeb — God, who in other places and times did appear in a
similitude in the fashion of a man, now in this most solemn
appearance, when he comes to give eternal laws for the direction of
the Israel...
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Was the law given at Horeb or at Mt. Sinai?
PROBLEM: Exodus 19:11 affirms that Moses received the Law at “Mt.
Sinai” (cf. v. 18). But here in Deuteronomy 4:10 it claims that
Moses got it “in Horeb.”...