Deuteronomy 10:19

_AND I STAYED IN THE MOUNT, ACCORDING TO THE FIRST TIME, FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS; AND THE LORD HEARKENED UNTO ME AT THAT TIME ALSO, AND THE LORD WOULD NOT DESTROY THEE._ Moses here resumes his address, and having made a passing allusion to the principal events in their history, concludes by exhorting them to fear the Lord and serve Him faithfully. Verse 16. CIRCUMCISE ... THE FORESKIN OF YOUR HEART. Here he teaches them the true and spiritual meaning of that rite, as was afterward more strongly urged by Paul (Romans 2:25), and should be applied by us to our baptism, which is "not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God." Verse 17. FOR THE LORD (YAHWEH) YOUR GOD ... - i:e., He is not merely a local deity, as the pagan regard their guardian divinities; and although, for high and important purposes

12-22 We are here taught our duty to God in our principles and our practices. We must fear the Lord our God. We must love him, and delight in communion with him. We must walk in the ways in which he has appointed us to walk. We must serve him with all our heart and soul. What we do in his service we must do cheerfully, and with good will. We must keep his commandments. There is true honour and pleasure in obedience. We must give honour to God; and to him we must cleave, as one we love and delight in, trust in, and from whom we have great expectations. We are here taught our duty to our neighbour. God's common gifts to mankind oblige us to honour all men. And those who have themselves been in distress, and have found mercy with God, should be ready to show kindness to those who are in the like distress. We are here taught our duty to ourselves. Circumcise your hearts. Cast away all corru...

EXPOSITION RENEWED EXHORTATIONS TO OBEDIENCE. DEUTERONOMY 10:1 _Moses_'_ intercession and its results_. DEUTERONOMY 10:1 AT THAT TIME. When Moses thus interceded, God commanded him to prepare two new tables of stone, and to construct an ark in which to keep them (cf. Exodus 34:1, etc.). Directions had been given for the construction of the ark before the apostasy of the people, and it was not made till after the tabernacle had been erected, nor were the tables placed in it till the tabernacle had been consecrated (cf....

LOVE YE THEREFORE THE STRANGER,.... Because the Lord loves him; and another reason follows, particularly binding on the Israelites: FOR YE WERE STRANGERS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT; and therefore should sympathize with such, and show them compassion, relieve them in distress, and afford them whatever they want, and is in the power of their hands to communicate to them; remembering their own condition in Egypt, and how welcome such a treatment would have been to them then, as well as the kind and careful providence of God towards them at that time....

6. JEHOVAH'S LOVE AND HIS REQUIREMENTS OF HIS PEOPLE CHAPTER 10:12-22 _ 1. Jehovah's delight and love (Deuteronomy 10:12)_ 2. Admonition to fear and serve Jehovah (Deuteronomy 10:16) This section is especially precious. Jehovah speaks through Moses and reminds His people of Himself and His Love and what He requires of them. “Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens is Jehovah's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.” What a marvellous call to fear and serve such a Lord! What He required of them was a loving obedience, to fear Him, to walk in all His ways, to love Him and to serve Him. They were to be followers of Jehovah their God. He is God of gods, Lord of lords, great, mighty, terrible. His goodness again is revealed by Moses as an ince

DEUTERONOMY 10:12 TO DEUTERONOMY 11:32. Resumes Moses'second address interrupted by the long didactic narrative of Deuteronomy 9:7_ b_ - Deuteronomy 10:11. DEUTERONOMY 10:12 - Deuteronomy 11. Reasons why Israel should fear and serve Yahweh. Deuteronomy 10:12. _Cf._ Micah 6:8....

LOVE YE, &C. Compare Leviticus 19:34. STRANGER. sojourner....

Deuteronomy 10:12 to Deuteronomy 11:32. Final Exhortations, Introductory to the Laws Enforced by the preceding Retrospect, the discourse continues to urge its practical conclusions of full fear and love to God, by worshipping and obeying Him (Deuteronomy 10:12-13); because, though all heaven and earth is His, He was pleased to love the fathers of Israel and to choose their posterity (Deuteronomy 10:14-15). Changing to the Pl. address the discourse urges Israel to circumcise their hearts and be no more stiffnecked, for their God is the greatest God and Lord, mightiest and most terrible

(2) BY AN ABIDING LOVE (Deuteronomy 10:12 to Deuteronomy 11:1) 12 And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13 to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, unto Jehovah thy God belongeth heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein. 15 Only Jehovah had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day. 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. 17 For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terr

PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONTINUED) 1-5. The renewal of the broken covenant: see Exodus 34. 6-9. These vv are evidently a parenthesis. The death of Aaron took place thirty-eight years after the departure from Sinai, but previous to the delivery of this discourse: see on Numbers 20:22; The notice of Aaron's death seems to be inserted here to show that the sin of Aaron and the people did not bring the priesthood to a close. The covenant was renewed, and Aaron was spared for nearly forty years to minister as the high priest; and on his death the priesthood was continued in his family. In Numbers 33:30 the same places are mentioned as being visited in a different order. In all probability the children of