Sweet and beautiful expression, to denote GOD'S love and care of his people. They are within his grasp; they are held, and upheld by him. And tell me, my brother, if you and I are of his people, and in his hand, who, or what shall unclasp the arms of omnipotency? Romans 8:35. Oh! precious, precious thought! LORD enable me to live more upon it.
Verse Deuteronomy 33:3. _YEA, HE LOVED THE PEOPLE_] This is the inference which Moses makes from those glorious appearances, that God truly loved the people; and that all his saints, קדשיו _kedoshaiv...
“The people” are the twelve tribes, not the Gentiles; and his saints refer to God’s chosen people just before spoken of. Compare Deuteronomy 7:18, Deuteronomy 7:21; Exodus 19:6;...
3. THE BLESSING OF MOSES Chapter S 32:44-33:29 _ 1. Introduction (Deuteronomy 32:44)_ 2. Jehovah's manifestation (Deuteronomy 33:1) 3. The blessing of Reuben, Judah and Levi (D
DEUTERONOMY 33. THE BLESSING OF MOSES. Of this poem (quite unconnected with the context) the following statements may be made: (_a)_ It was composed during the prosperous reign of Jeroboam II (786- 74...
LOVED. Hebrew "loveth". _Chabab,_ used only here, and only of Jehovah's love to Israel. HAND... FEET. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. THEY SAT DOWN. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part...
(2 9). Four Laws: Of Right to Enter the Congregation There shall not enter any eunuch (Deuteronomy 33:1); nor the son of an unlawful marriage, nor descendants (Deuteronomy 33:2); nor Ammonite, nor Mo...
The Proem The Origin of Israel The Revelation by which the tribes became a nation is described in the mingled figures of a dawn and a thunderstorm, theophanies frequent in the Ar. poetry of the deser...
_he loveth_ Heb. partic. _ḥobeb_, only here; the meaning is assured from other Semitic dialects. _the peoples_ If the Heb. is accepted render _tribes_. But LXX has HIS PEOPLE. _his saints_ Not in an...
( 4 7). Nor shall Ammonites, nor Moabites, nor their Descendants Enter the Congregation (3), for these nations gave no provision to Israel on the way from Egypt (4 _a_), but he (?) hired Balaam to cur...
_VER._ 3. _YEA, HE LOVED THE PEOPLE_— Durell, in agreement with Houbigant, after the Samaritan, renders this verse thus; O loving Father of the people! All the saints are at thy hand; They shall fall...
E. THE BLESSING OF MOSES (Deuteronomy 33:1-29) Having spoken his song in the previous chapter, Moses now pronounces his blessing upon the people. Both were probably spoken on the same day, just prior...
_AND HE SAID, THE LORD CAME FROM SINAI, AND ROSE UP FROM SEIR UNTO THEM; HE SHINED FORTH FROM MOUNT_ _ AND HE SAID, THE LORD CAME FROM SINAI, AND ROSE UP FROM SEIR UNTO THEM; HE SHINED FORTH FROM MOUN...
33:3 peoples, (h-5) The tribes; so in ver. 19....
THE BLESSING OF MOSES This chapter contains the last words or 'swan-song' of Moses. Immediately before his death he takes farewell of the people, and blesses each of the tribes in turn, as Jacob had...
ALL HIS SAINTS] i.e. Israel's saints. THEY SAT DOWN AT THY FEET] as disciples listening to the words of their teacher....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 33 V1 This is the *blessing that Moses, God’s *prophet, gave to the *Israelites. Moses did this...
YEA, HE LOVED. — The connection appears to be this — “From His right hand went a fire, a law for them (Israel). Loving the peoples also; (_i.e.,_ all who should hereafter become His people) All Hi...
אַ֚ף חֹבֵ֣ב עַמִּ֔ים כָּל ־קְדֹשָׁ֖יו בְּ יָד
(B) THE BLESSING OF MOSES Deuteronomy 33:1 Besides the farewell speeches and the farewell song, we have in this chapter yet another closing utterance attributed to Moses. Here, as in the case of the...
THE BLESSING OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE Deuteronomy 33:1 The glorious nature of God is the opening theme here. The reference is to the giving of the Law when, amid fire and the mediation of angels, God des...
Here we have the record of the final words of Moses to the nation. They also take the form of a song. Often he had set before the people cursing and blessing His last words were of blessing only. Firs...
Yea, he loved the people; (c) all his saints [are] in thy hand: and they sat down at (d) thy feet; [every one] shall receive of thy words. (c) Hebrew, his saints, that is, the children of Israel. (d...
People, ( populos.) God loves and watches over all, but particularly (Calmet) over the nation which he has chosen. (Chaldean) See Wisdom iii. 1., and Isaias xlix. 16. --- Doctrine. It was formerly the...
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...
_THE PROTECTING HAND_ ‘All His saints are in Thy hand.’ Deuteronomy 33:3 The text shows us how elaborately God lays out His whole being as altogether engaged for His own people,—first His heart; th...
3._Yea, he loved the people. _(308) If it be preferred to apply this to the Gentiles, the sentence must be thus resolved, “Although He loves all human beings, still His saints are honored with His pec...
We have also the blessings of this man of God, pronounced over the people before his death (chap. 33). The blessings of Jacob were more historical regarding the future. Here they are rather relationsh...
YEA, HE LOVED THE PEOPLE,.... The people of Israel, of which his giving the law to them in such a glorious manner was an instance, and was a distinguishing blessing which other nations were not favour...
Yea, he loved the people; all his saints [are] in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; [every one] shall receive of thy words. Ver. 3. _Yea, he loved the people._] With a general love, with a com...
_He loved the people_ The tribes of Israel. The sense is, this law, though delivered with fire, and smoke, and thunder, which might seem to portend nothing but hatred and terror, yet in truth was give...
1 The Maiestie of God. 6 The blessings of the twelue Tribes. 26 The excellency of Israel. 1 AND this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death....
Yea, he loved the people, or, How dearly He loved the people! ALL HIS SAINTS ARE IN THY HAND; He who has even the angels in His power, to do His will, cherishes a deep affection for all those that are...
THE BLESSING OF MOSES. As the aged patriarch Jacob laid his blessing upon his sons in the form of prophecies, so Moses, before being gathered to his people, spoke a prophetic blessing upon the peopl...
THE BLESSING OF THE TRIBES (vs.1-29) Though Deuteronomy is a book largely of admonition, yet all admonition is finished by the end of Chapter 32:47, and Chapter 33 beautifully closes God's message f...
1-5 To all his precepts, warnings, and prophecies, Moses added a solemn blessing. He begins with a description of the glorious appearances of God, in giving the law. His law works like fire. If recei...
THE PEOPLE, i.e. the tribes of Israel, which are called people, GENESIS 48:19 JUDGES 5:14 ACTS 4:27. The sense is, This law, though delivered with fire, and smoke, and thunder, which might seem to por...
"And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death" It is full of interest and comfort to find that the last words of the lawgiver were words o...
Deuteronomy 33:3 Yes H637 loves H2245 (H8801) people H5971 saints H6918 hand H3027 down H8497 (H8795) feet...
Deuteronomy 33:2 A ‘And he said, Yahweh came from Sinai, And rose from Seir to them; He shone forth from mount Paran, And he came from the ten thousands of holiness (quodesh), At his right hand...
Deuteronomy 33:3 Of Israel, as a company of the Lord's saints, Moses says that they are all in God's hand. This was true of the ancient Israel in an important sense, but it is still more fully and ext...
CONTENTS: Moses' blessing upon the tribes. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: It is a very desirable thing to have an interest in the prayers of those who are about to depart for heaven. KEY WORD:...
Deuteronomy 33:1. _Moses blessed Israel._ Moses, like Jacob, died distinctly blessing the tribes of Israel, and finished his course in a manner worthy of himself. The tribe of Simeon is here omitted....
_From His right hand went a fiery law for them._ Yea, He loved the people. THE LAW OF ANTAGONISM At first sight the text might seem to involve a contradiction, but closer consideration will show th...
_This is the blessing wherewith Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death._ THE BLESSING OF THE TRIBES The many successive “blessings” of Israel were a necessary conseque...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 33:1 There is no mention of Simeon in the list of tribes, perhaps because the tribe was going to be scattered (Genesis 49:7) and absorbed by Judah....
CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses now performs the last great act of life and blesses the tribes of Israel. “The blessing opens with a solemn conclusion of the covenant and giving of the law at Sinai, by which th...
EXPOSITION MOSES' BLESSING. Before ascending Mount Nebo, to take a view of the land he was not permitted to cuter and then to die, Moses took farewell of the people he had so long guided and ruled, b...
Chapter thirty-three, Now this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel just before he died. And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir; he shin...
1 John 4:19; 1 Peter 1:5; 1 Samuel 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; Acts 22:3;
The people — The tribes of Israel. The sense is, this law, though delivered with fire and smoke and thunder, which might seem to portend nothing but hatred and terror, yet in truth was given to Israel...