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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Deuteronomy 27:11-13

The Mount Ebal, and the Mount Gerizzim, stood near each other, a valley being between them. It is worthy remark, that in the Gospel state, when JESUS went up into the mountain, it was only to bless his people. The tribes were divided in six to each, for blessing the people, and for pronouncing the curses. Perhaps they both had an allusion to the Gospel state, for the law is our schoolmaster unto CHRIST: and ministers are by the terrors of the law to persuade men. 2 Corinthians 5:11.

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See also Deuteronomy 27:11-13 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Appointment of Tribes to Bless and to Curse Ch. Deuteronomy 11:29 (_q.v._) commands that the blessing for obedience be set on Mt Gerizim, the curse for disobedience on Mt -Ebal. _Set_(lit. _give_) im...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THOUGHT QUESTIONS 27:11-14 471. Why the choice of the tribes to bless? 472. What impression was this whole ceremony to make upon Israel? AMPLIFIED TRANSLATION 27:11-14 11 And Moses charged the pe...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THOU SHALT OFFER PEACE OFFERINGS, AND SHALT EAT THERE, AND REJOICE BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְצַ֤ו מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶת ־הָ עָ֔ם בַּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._And Moses charged the people the same day_. In order that both the promises and threats might have more efficacy in affecting the minds of all, God enjoined not only that they should be proclaimed...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND MOSES CHARGED THE PEOPLE THE SAME,.... That he gave the above orders to set up stones, and plaster them, and write the law on them, and build an altar in the same place, and offer sacrifices when...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CURSE PRONOUNCED FROM MOUNT EBAL...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 27:11 Moses H4872 commanded H6680 (H8762) people H5971 day H3117 saying H559 (H8800)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    PART III.—THIRD DISCOURSE OF MOSES. THE COVENANT RENEWED. CHAPTERS 27-30. EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 27:1. INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE PU

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

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