Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Deuteronomy 27:18
Cursed [be] he that maketh the (l) blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
(l) Meaning, that does not help and counsel his neighbour.
Cursed [be] he that maketh the (l) blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
(l) Meaning, that does not help and counsel his neighbour.
Verse Deuteronomy 27:18. _THE BLIND TO WANDER OUT OF THE WAY._] A sin against the sixth commandment. Exodus 20:13, Exodus 20:13....
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...
THE BLIND. Compare Leviticus 19:14....
Leviticus 19:14: _thou shall not put a stumbling block before the blind_....
_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_....
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...
To take advantage of a neighbour's ignorance or credulity is sin: cp. Leviticus 19:14....
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...
THE BLIND. — “He that is in the dark upon any matter, when one deceives him with evil counsel” (Rashi)....
אָר֕וּר מַשְׁגֶּ֥ה עִוֵּ֖ר בַּ † דָּ֑רֶךְ וְ...
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...
_Blind; or, according to the Rabbins and Grotius, those who are on a journey, and do not know the road. "Cursed, said Diphilis, is the man who does not tell the right road." Those who lead the simple...
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...
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 MAKETH THE BLIND TO WANDER OUT OF THE WAY,.... By directing him wrong knowingly, or laying a stumbling block in his way, Leviticus 19:14. The Targum of Jonathan is, "that maketh a...
_Out of the way_ That misleadeth simple souls, giving them pernicious counsel, either for this life, or for the next....
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...
Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way, Leviticus 19:14. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN....
THE CURSE PRONOUNCED FROM MOUNT EBAL...
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...
That misleadeth simple souls, giving them pernicious counsel, either for this life or for the next....
"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 27:18 Cursed H779 (H8803) blind H5787 wander H7686 (H8688) road H1870 people H5971 say H559 ...
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 27:18 On misleading the BLIND, see Leviticus 19:14....
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...
Isaiah 56:10; Job 29:15; Leviticus 19:14; Matthew 15:14; Proverbs