^d 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed. There are many, many Christians who have been long enough, and far too long, in the mount, and it would be welt for themselves if they could hear this voice summoning them to go forward. The children of Moab had had their wars. and we have seen the sons of the Anakims there ( Deuteronomy 1:28 ). 2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.) In the first section, i.-iv. Now, the cry almost indicated the answer itself; "Who shall deliver me?" This is then what he was pressing. This he had fully shown in the history. With this then most fittingly He begins. Thus Jehovah from the very first was teaching them that they were not called out on an errand of indiscriminate conquest. The point then for the Jew was the one true God. In Deuteronomy 16:1-17 (where I now stop) we have the winding up of all this part the termination of the statutes which had to do with religion. So this is where the word Deuteronomy comes from "Moses began to declare this law". It consists of moral addresses, and appeals in a tone quite unexampled in all the five books of Moses. It is a different thing however with the book of Deuteronomy; and this was my reason for remarking it at this point. And this characterizes the book of Deuteronomy. The law-giver sets before them the manner in which the law dealt with themselves, in one feature particularly, which he presses on them. I`m blessed into my down sitting and I`m blessed into my uprising! "Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. But the second feast brings out joy in a very distinct and delightful manner. And so it is glorious to come in to the walk and the life of the spirit, to enter into that life that God wants you to live as a child of God, as His child. No matter what it may cost, he assumes that he will at once go through with the will of the Lord. (Deuteronomy 1:11 NKJV). In all the three occasions the Lord Jesus draws His answers from the book of Deuteronomy. Ye have dwelt long enough, c. Exodus 19:1-2 and left it the twentieth of the second month of the second year, so it appears they had continued there nearly a whole year. The grand duty and safeguard is evermore to heed His word, and the consulting Him not only for their own path but in respect to others. "When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.". God will lift to the highest level that you will allow Him to lift you and do the best for you on that level, but the work of God in our lives is always limited by us. Thank You, loving Father, that You never change. Satan took advantage of the scripture that said that He should not dash His foot against a stone. Every motive of gratitude and compassion should urge us to it. Rekam, and that Double. What God lays on one He does not necessarily enjoin on another. So it habitually is where the faith is real; but nature is not yet judged root and branch. "The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. In other words, he is saying that God went before you through the wilderness to search for the best place for you to pitch your tent and then led you by the fire and by the cloud.Oh, if we only realized how all encompassing the work of God is that surrounds our lives. The very point of faith, for which we are especially responsible, is what we are in most danger of forgetting under pressure or carelessness. (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of mount Seir to Kadeshbarnea.) xlv. i. [They said] Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, and to destroy us ( Deuteronomy 1:27 ). Hence, if darkness had not veiled their eyes, they would have seen that the latter clause of Deuteronomy 5:12 cited could not be in Exodus, and that its existence in Deuteronomy proves that we have here a grave and instructive reference to the commandments formally given in the second book of Moses. And as for the children of Ammon, they too had passed through similar experience. Men have reasoned with great detail, especially in recent years, enquiring how all this could be done in the desert by a people who found it hard enough to pass unscathed themselves, though they had Jehovah their God with them to feed them with angels' bread, and water if need were from the rock. A Summons To Advance . This then is the leading truth of Deuteronomy. It was very important, therefore, that these men judge fairly (Deuteronomy 1:17). . We however are not under law but grace. If one were simply a man, one must have to do with the place and state of Adam fallen. God appointed judges (Deuteronomy 1:16) to help Moses carry the burden of legal decisions that resulted from the giving of the Law. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." They did not have a personal memory of the horrible bondage in Egypt. Ver. Occasionally in Deuteronomy he supplemented what he had written earlier with other explanatory material. It seems just a parenthesis, and not a question of chronology.*. In Deuteronomy 8:1-20 we have quite a different character. It is Jehovah gathering the people round Himself. This is just as characteristic a truth for us as the one Jehovah was for a Jew. And Moses said, "No, don't. So the commandment of God; "you've been here long enough, you've circled this mountain long enough". It is very possible that not a single institution during that time may have been strictly enforced or obeyed among the people. This is the grand pith of the chapter as it appears to me. This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee. 39; vi. If you suspect a rogue is in your employment, you may test him by marking a piece of money to see whether he steals or not: am I then going to mark something for God to see whether He will keep His word or not? Thank Him for bringing you through the land of your [proverbial] enemies, for your enemies stood between you and the Promised Landand now you are that much closer to crossing over into the Promised Land. It is not to be doubted that the words cited from Deuteronomy were the very best that they were chosen according to divine perfection. Such is the point here in the seventh chapter. None ever honoured God's word as Christ did. 10. A Plain Description of the Essence and Attributes of God, Out of the Holy Scripture, So Far as Every Christian must Competently Know, and Necessarily Believe, that Will be Saves. Not so. XXI. There is then (verses 12-18) pointed out the way to deal with a city guilty of idolatry. Ver. For the LORD your God which goes before you, shall fight for you, according to all that he did in Egypt before your eyes; And yet you went in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God ( Deuteronomy 1:29-32 ). It is ever the same duty of submission to God's will. In Deuteronomy 5:1-33 we come to still closer quarters. Unless I am very much mistaken,--the maps of Adricomus, Tirinius, and others, ought to be corrected, which have feigned to, The readers of the eastern interpreters will observe, that Kadesh is rendered by all Rekam, or in a sound very near it. Of Kadesh, or Rekam, in the south part, there is no doubt. "Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb." In special instances judgment to the full took its course. Covenant favour would surely do as much for Israel as providence had done for Moab and Ammon! 24. 5, 6; 1 Tim. (Deuteronomy 1:22-23) In the same manner an important social arrangement is declared to have been made by Moses at the suggestion of Jethro his father-in-law, who says in prophesying, 'If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able,' etc. This fact appears to be of some importance, because notoriously difficulties have been raised, on the score of practicability, as to the various ordinances requiring sacrifices and offerings where the means did not appear. Such is the sceptic's puny effort to lower the character and credit of scripture. They were about to enter it by special grace; for it is of importance to bear in mind that it was not by the covenant which was made at Horeb that the children of Israel entered the land at all. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart. Now we find what would test their obedience. He that believes may calmly confide in God under all circumstances. i. i. p. 42, note 4.) vol. The Israelites realized nothing of the kind. It is exactly so here. Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. In style similar to that of ancient treaty documents, Deuteronomy opens by recounting all that Yahweh, Israel's covenant God, has done for his people. O. T. i. pp. But nobody knows about the sabbath-day unless Jehovah command it. Man must not presume to choose. Accordingly the very large introduction is an address to the people for the purpose of enforcing these claims. "And so Moses sort of rehearses for them some of the problems that he had as God was dealing with him. Forever and ever. Again, in Deuteronomy 5:16 two new clauses are supplied, 'and that it may go well with thee,' and 'as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.' Such was the genuine result of sending the spies. Let me ask, Why were there these three feasts, and these three only? They were a people brought into relationship with God, and the object of His words was to guard them from practical inconsistency with that relationship. Is this what you feel? there is formality enough, and without having written forms, the heart may frame forms of its own, as we may have observed, if not known it in our own experience, without finding fault with other people, For notoriously, in a legal state of mind people are apt to get through the acknowledgment of sin in what they know has grieved the Lord; but even then there is a want of bowing to His will. In Deuteronomy 12:1-32 we have statutes and judgments. By whom? Because he hath wholly followed the Lord. Prayer Point #1: Pray for a Great Awakening and for Salvations. Now, shut up". In Deuteronomy 4:1-49 we find another line of things. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you." It is obedience. In advancing to take possession of the world for Christ, we have the encouragement of thinking that he knows precisely to what kind of work he is sending us, and yet promises success. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. "Because God hates us he brought us out here to kill us in the wilderness", when in reality God loved them and wanted to give them a land that they might dwell in, that it might be their land. Rebuilding the Temple (Ezra 1:1-6:22) Bible Commentary / Produced by TOW Project The Book of Ezra begins with a decree from King Cyrus of Persia, allowing the Jews to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple that had been destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BC (Ezra 1:2-4). The word of Jehovah mentioned here is not found in this form in the previous history; but as a matter of fact it is contained in the divine instructions that were preparatory to their removal (Numbers 1-4 and Numbers 9:15-10:10), and the rising of the cloud from the tabernacle, which followed immediately afterwards (Numbers 10:11). "Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession." How good is the Lord! So you appointed the seventy to be rulers over them, the chief men and he charged them to hear the causes of the people and to judge among the people. So Jehovah our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people." And Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess that thou mayest inherit his land. Undoubtedly the gatherings in of the corn and the wine (that is, the harvest and the vintage) are the well known types of God's final dealings: the harvest when He separates the wheat from the chaff, or at any rate from that which is not wheat; and the vintage when He executes unsparing judgment upon the vine of the earth upon all religion that is vain and denies heaven. "The saying pleased me well, and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: and they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eschol, and searched it out. "but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live." To have confidence in God is one of the important points here, to cherish full confidence that whatever He gives us is the very best thing for us. See Romans 8:15. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. If it were merely a question of man, nobody would think of choosing for another. Now he dwells chiefly on their part in the matter, confessing his own inability to cope with their great increase, which ho touchingly entreats God to swell a thousand times, but withal urges on the rulers to judge righteously. ^D John VII. 5; John iv. A disgraceful perversion; for Deuteronomy 10:6-7 is manifestly a parenthesis. We were bondmen, and are not. But the believer sees wisdom and grace in comparing the first historical statement with the solemn use the legislator makes to the generation about to enter the land, and the added information is of grave import. Besides, if these high places had been dedicated to heathen gods, Israel must not dare to consecrate them to the true God. So, all of these things transpired in Deuteronomy, as far as Moses was concerned, in the last forty days of his life; his final exhortations to the people prior to their crossing and entering into the land. The heritage of the descendants of Jacob shall be restored unto thee!" After the praise and worship session, go with your prophetic sword into battle using these 13 prayer points for DAY 6. The people of Israel had nearly completed their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. 41-43--here irrelevant (cf. III. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN. Many count it buried in Christ's grave, but it is not. It might be, and no doubt was, trying enough for Israel to take quietly the unfriendliness of the Edomites, Ammonites, and Moabites; but no matter what the provocation given, no matter how they might be insulted by them (and they were), a hand of Israel must not be lifted up against their brethren; for Jehovah reminds them of the connection, and gives those races the closest name possible their brethren. The section summarizes events recorded in greater detail in Numbers 10:11-42. In this Second Narration, Moses expressly declares that God not only gave them a visible sign, by uplifting the cloud, but that He also verbally commanded the people to leave Mount Sinai, and to set about the performance of the rest of their journey. His eyesight is still keen, he can still hear very well and he is addressing these people, rehearsing for them the work of God in their past because many of them were born while in the wilderness. Moses reminds them how he had shared the burden of care for them with others. This he tried to conceal from One, all whose ways were obedience, venturing to insinuate what a noble demonstration of His Messiahship it would be. They were the dues He demanded in virtue of His position as landlord of the people in the land. Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land whither ye go to possess it; and that ye may prolong your days in the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey" (ver. It is well to remark here that verse 24 is exactly parallel with verse 13; that it is not Moses in verse 13, but Jehovah who commands to "rise up," etc., in both; and that verses 10-12 are a parenthesis of instructive past history for moral profit like verses 20-23. This is a solemn lesson that there may be a thorough spirit of disobedience at the very time that people talk of doing whatever God is pleased to command. Pray it during the day too. cxliii. Kadesh. A great auditory, no question, he had, as many as could crowd within hearing, and particularly all the elders and officers, the representatives of the people; and, probably, it was on the sabbath day that he delivered this to them. But you are the one that puts the limitations on what God wants to do. Hey, it's time to go in and begin to possess that which God has promised unto you." Is not this very notable? Such then is the early and remarkably striking introduction to the book. Deuteronomy 14:1-29 insists on what became the children of Jehovah their God in abstaining from unseemly maimings or disfigurements for the dead, as well as from any food which He, who knew better than they, pronounced abominable. Help me to be courageous in the face of my enemies. 11-52. It seems needless to say that this is altogether short of Christianity; and as we have referred to the difference of a Jew and a Christian as to the sabbath-day and the first day of the week, so as to this. 95. The point urged here is, that when they came and stood, as far as any then could stand, in the presence of God, they had seen no similitude of Jehovah. The Blessedness and Glory of the Promised Land, The Impartiality of God to be Reflected in the Judges of His People, Moses' speech in the end of the fortieth year, briefly rehearsing the history of God's sending them from Horeb. If it is a question of access to God in His sanctuary, priests are definitely brought out, and the proper book for this is Leviticus; but there is a larger truth than this that God has a people whom He puts in a place of consecration to Himself. Indeed He found His moral glory in this very fact, that He alone of all men that ever lived never in a single particular swerved from that which after all is the sweetest, loveliest, highest thing in man here below absolute devotedness to another, doing the will of His God and Father. No wonder therefore that Deuteronomy in general has been but little understood, even by the children of God; that the thoughts of expositors are comparatively vague in explaining it; and that men are apt to read it with so little insight into its bearing that the loss might seem comparatively trifling if it were not read at all. He too it was who had given the Mount to Esau: that was enough. This year and its institutions fill up exactly one-third of the text of the Pentateuch. Not surprisingly, they were defeated and driven back into the wilderness (41-46). * So difficult is it to unbelief that some take the ground of making Deuteronomy belong to an older age when the distinction of priests from Levites was not yet brought in. The prime duty for every creature, whether Jew or Christian, is obedience. In Deuteronomy 5:12 the term keep corresponds to remember in Exodus 20:8, and the last clause of the former verse, 'as the Lord thy God hath commanded,' is wanting in Exodus. 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