Deuteronomy 10:4

_AND HE WROTE ON THE TABLES, ACCORDING TO THE FIRST WRITING, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, WHICH THE LORD SPAKE UNTO YOU IN THE MOUNT OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE IN THE DAY OF THE ASSEMBLY: AND THE LORD GAVE THEM UNTO ME._ He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing - i:e., not Moses, acting under the divine direction, as the amanuensis (copyist), but God Himself, who made this inscription a second time with His own hand, to testify the importance He attached to the Ten Commandments. Different from other stone monuments of antiquity, which were made to stand upright, and in the open air, those on which the divine law was engraven were portable, and designed to be kept as a treasure. Josephus says that each of the tables contained five precepts. But the tradition generally received, both among Jewish and Christian writers, is, that one table contained four precepts, the other six. T...

1-11 Moses reminded the Israelites of God's great mercy to them, notwithstanding their provocations. There were four things in and by which the Lord showed himself reconciled to Israel. God gave them his law. Thus God has intrusted us with Bibles, sabbaths, and sacraments, as tokens of his presence and favour. God led them forward toward Canaan. He appointed a standing ministry among them for holy things. And now, under the gospel, when the pouring forth of the Spirit is more plentiful and powerful, the succession is kept up by the Spirit's work on men's hearts, qualifying and making some willing for that work in every age. God accepted Moses as an advocate or intercessor for them, and therefore appointed him to be their prince and leader. Moses was a type of Christ, who ever lives, pleading for us, and has all power in heaven and in earth....

Verse Deuteronomy 10:4. _TEN COMMANDMENTS_] Exodus 20:1, Exodus 20:1, c....

These verses are closely connected with the preceding chapter, and state very briefly the results of the intercession of Moses recorded in Deuteronomy 9:25. The people are reminded that all their blessings and privileges, forfeited by apostasy as soon as bestowed, were only now their own by a new and most unmerited act of grace on the part of God, won from Him by the self-sacrificing mediation of Moses himself Deuteronomy 10:10. Deuteronomy 10:1. The order for making the ark and tabernacle was evidently given before the apostasy of the people (Exo. 25ff); but the tables were not put in the ark until the completion and dedication of the ta

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....

AND HE WROTE ON THE TABLES ACCORDING TO THE FIRST WRITING,.... The same laws, in the same letters: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WHICH THE LORD SPAKE UNTO YOU IN THE MOUNT; in Mount Sinai, on which he descended, and from whence he delivered the decalogue by word of mouth in an audible manner, that all the people could hear it: OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE; in which he descended, and where he continued, and from whence he spake, so that it was indeed a fiery law; IN THE DAY OF THE ASSEMBLY; when all the people of Israel were assembled together at the bottom of the mount to hear it: AND THE LORD GAVE THEM UNTO ME; the two tables, when he had wrote upon them the ten commands....

5. WARNING AGAINST SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THEIR PREVIOUS FAILURES Chapter S 9:1-10:11 _ 1. The warning (Deuteronomy 9:1)_ 2. The failures of the past (Deuteronomy 9:7) 3. The intercession of Moses (Deuteronomy 9:25) 4. The results of the intercession (Deuteronomy 10:1) This chapter and the first eleven verses of the tenth are aimed against the spirit of self righteousness. First there is the warning. This is followed by their shameful history of the past, which showed that a boast of being righteous, or having any righteousness had to be positively excluded in their

DEUTERONOMY 9:7_ b -_ DEUTERONOMY 10:11 (or DEUTERONOMY 10:9). Narrative of the legislation on Mount Horeb; for the purpose apparently of illustrating Deuteronomy 9:7_ a._ This historical survey suddenly thrust into a hortatory context closely resembles Deuteronomy 1-3, and is thought by Horst and Bertholet to be by the same author. They agree with Steuernagel (who, however, says its closest affinities are with Deuteronomy 5) in holding it to be an interpolation here. But surely the history in this section is didactic and therefore hortatory....

COMMANDMENTS. words. Compare Exodus 34:4; Exodus 34:28. SPAKE. See note on Deuteronomy 2:1. UNTO. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, and The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel read "with". ASSEMBLY. Hebrew. _kahal,_ convocation of called-out people....

_And he wrote on the tables … the ten_ WORDS] Exodus 34:28, J. This adds _the words of the covenant_, for which D has _according to the first writing_, cp. Deuteronomy 9:10. _the ten_ WORDS] See above p. 81. _in the mount out of the midst of the fire_ Above Deuteronomy 9:10. _in the day of the assembly_ See on Deuteronomy 9:10; Deuteronomy 5:22....