What does Deuteronomy 29:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day."
Verse Deuteronomy 29:4. _THE LORD HATH NOT GIVEN YOU A HEART, C._] Some critics read this verse interrogatively: _And hath not God given_ _you a heart, c._? because they suppose that God could not re...
Ability to understand the things of God is the gift of God (compare 1 Corinthians 2:13); yet man is not guiltless if he lacks that ability. The people had it not because they had not felt their want o...
25. THE REPETITION OF THE COVENANT AND THE REPETITION OF THE CURSE CHAPTER 29 _ 1. The repetition of the covenant (Deuteronomy 29:1)_ 2. The repetition of the curse (Deuteronomy 29:16) The words of...
DEUTERONOMY 29:1 belongs, as in the Heb. Bible, to the preceding chapter. It is the formal ending of the great discourse (Deuteronomy 4:44, Deuteronomy 12-26, Deuteronomy 28). Deuteronomy 29 (except D...
_an heart to know_ The _heart_the seat of the practical understanding; -not the seat of the affections, but the mind itself, the intellectual faculty of the soul" (Calvin), yet always in a moral aspec...
DISCOURSE: 221 MEN’S BLINDNESS IN SPIRITUAL THINGS Deuteronomy 29:4. _The Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day._ THERE is nothing more comfor...
_VER._ 4. _YET THE LORD HATH NOT GIVEN YOU AN HEART TO PERCEIVE_— The meaning of this complaint is, not that God was wanting in his assistance, much less that he actually operated upon them to make th...
2. THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD (Deuteronomy 29:2-9) And Moses called unto all Isreal, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all h...
_THE GREAT TEMPTATIONS WHICH THINE EYES HAVE SEEN, THE SIGNS, AND THOSE GREAT MIRACLES:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
EXHORTATIONS AND WARNINGS In this chapter the covenant is renewed and enforced with a reminder of God's goodness and the consequences of disobedience....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 29 V1 These are the words of the *covenant. The *LORD ordered Moses to make it with the *Israeli...
YET THE LORD HATH NOT GIVEN YOU AN HEART TO PERCEIVE. — “To mark the mercies of the Holy One, blessed be He! and to cleave unto Him” (Rashi). And so in Psalms 106:7, “Our fathers understood not Thy wo...
_[Deuteronomy 29:3]_ וְ לֹֽא ־נָתַן֩ יְהוָ֨ה לָכֶ֥ם לֵב֙ לָ דַ֔עַת וְ עֵינַ֥יִם לִ רְאֹ֖ות...
MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1; Deuteronomy 30:1. WITH the twenty-sixth chapter the entirely homogeneous central portion of the Book of...
THE COVENANT THAT BRINGS PROSPERITY Deuteronomy 29:1 In one great final convocation Moses rehearsed the Covenant, and endeavored to bind the people to its provisions. It becomes us all from time to...
The fourth discourse of Moses urged the people to be true to the Covenant, the terms of which had been given and are recorded in the previous chapter. It is to be carefully remembered that the first v...
Yet the LORD hath not (d) given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. (d) He shows that it is not in man's power to understand the mysteries of God if it is not...
Hath not given you, &c. Through your own fault, and because you resisted his grace. (Challoner) --- If they had not been guilty, Moses would never have made them this reproach. "But he shews that they...
We shall do well, Reader, to ask our hearts whether this be our case. Oh! gracious GOD, above all blessings give me JESUS and his HOLY SPIRIT, that I may perceive what my mercies are, and enjoy hits,...
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...
4._Yet the Lord hath not given. _By reproaching them with their past stupidity, he stirs up their desire for a better understanding, as if he had said, that they had been too long indifferent to so ma...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 28 AND 29. In CHAPTER 28 we have the principles of God's government in the midst of that people, and the immediate consequences of obedience or disobedience-...
YET THE LORD HATH NOT GIVEN YOU AN HEART TO PERCEIVE,.... They had some of them seen the above miracles with their bodily eyes, but had not discerned with the eyes of their understanding the power of...
Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. Ver. 4. _Yet the Lord hath not given you._] Nor is he bound to do, "but on whom he will he show...
_The Lord hath not given you a heart to perceive_ Which he would have done had you sincerely and earnestly desired and asked it of him; and you are inexcusable that you have not, considering his signa...
1 Moses exhorteth them to obedience, by the memorie of the workes they haue seene. 10 All are presented before the Lord to enter into his Couenant. 18 The great wrath on him that flattereth himselfe...
Of the Deliverance from Egypt...
THE CONDITIONAL COVENANT RENEWED (vs.1-29) Verse I speaks of a covenant the Lord commanded Moses to make with Israel in the land of Moab, "Beside the covenant which He made with them in Horeb." This...
1-9 Both former mercies, and fresh mercies, should be thought on by us as motives to obedience. The hearing ear, and seeing eye, and the understanding heart, are the gift of God. All that have them, h...
This verse comes in by way of correction or exception to the foregoing clause in this manner, I said indeed, _Ye have seen_, &c., DEUTERONOMY 29:2, and _thine eyes have seen_, &c., but I must recall m...
This chapter closes the second grand division of our book. In it we have a most solemn appeal to the conscience of the congregation. It is what we may term the summing up and practical application of...
Deuteronomy 29:4 LORD H3068 given H5414 (H8804) heart H3820 perceive H3045 (H8800) eyes H5869 see H7200 (H8800) ears H241 hear H8085 (H8800) day H3117 Deuteronomy 2:30; Proverbs 20:12;...
A QUICK RESUME OF THEIR HISTORY (DEUTERONOMY 29:2). In the light of the covenant which he had given (Deuteronomy 29:1), he began by a quick reminder of their reasons for confidence in Yahweh, and of w...
CONTENTS: Introductory words to the Palestinian covenant. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: We are bound in gratitude as well as duty and faithfulness to keep the words of the solemn covenant of G...
Deuteronomy 29:1. _The words of the covenant;_ from _co, con,_ or _com;_ a social prefix; and _venio,_ to come; the coming of two parties into one compact. The vendor gets the best terms he can, and t...
_The Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive._ MEN WITHOUT HEART, SIGHT, OR HEARING Feeling, sight, hearing! What wonderful things these are! If we could exist without them, what a wretched cond...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 29:1 Moses’ Third Speech: Final Exhortation. These chapters represent the climax of Moses’ preaching. He pleads with Israel to accept the covenant. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images =...
CRITICAL NOTES.—The discourse is continued—the subject of that is the covenant of Israel with God—its privileges conferred and obligations imposed. _Besides_ (Deuteronomy 29:1), not a new covenant, bu...
EXPOSITION RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT IN THE PLAINS OF MOAB. (Deuteronomy 29-30.) The first verse of this chapter is placed in the Hebrew text at the end of Deuteronomy 28:1; but in the LXX. and Vulgate...
Chapter twenty-nine, God continues with this covenant. These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel. And Moses called all Israel, and said u...
2 Corinthians 3:15; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Timothy 2:25; Acts 28:26; Acts 28:27; Deuteronomy 2:30; Ephesians 4:18; Ezekiel 36:26; Isaiah 6:10;...
Yet the Lord — That is, you have perceived and seen them with the eyes of your body, but not with your minds and hearts; you have not yet learned rightly to understand the word and works of God, so as...