_THESE ARE THE WORDS OF THE COVENANT, WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES TO MAKE WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN THE LAND OF MOAB, BESIDE THE COVENANT WHICH HE MADE WITH THEM IN HOREB._ These are the words of the covenant. Whether this verse is considered to be a conclusion to what is contained in the p... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES CALLED UNTO ALL ISRAEL, AND SAID UNTO THEM, YE HAVE SEEN ALL THAT THE LORD DID BEFORE YOUR EYES IN THE LAND OF EGYPT UNTO PHARAOH, AND UNTO ALL HIS SERVANTS, AND UNTO ALL HIS LAND;_ Moses called unto all Israel ... Ye have seen all that the Lord did ... This appeal to the experience of t... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE GREAT TEMPTATIONS WHICH THINE EYES HAVE SEEN, THE SIGNS, AND THOSE GREAT MIRACLES:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_YE HAVE NOT EATEN BREAD, NEITHER HAVE YE DRUNK WINE OR STRONG DRINK: THAT YE MIGHT KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD._ That ye might know that I am the Lord your God. In taking a retrospect of all the way by which they had been led "these forty years" (Deuteronomy 8:2), the design of Moses was to e... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN YE CAME UNTO THIS PLACE, SIHON THE KING OF HESHBON, AND OG THE KING OF BASHAN, CAME OUT AGAINST US UNTO BATTLE, AND WE SMOTE THEM:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_YE STAND THIS DAY ALL OF YOU BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD; YOUR CAPTAINS OF YOUR TRIBES, YOUR ELDERS, AND YOUR OFFICERS, WITH ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL,_ Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God. Moses had (Deuteronomy 29:2) convoked an assembly; and though, from the language of this passage,... [ Continue Reading ]
_YOUR LITTLE ONES, YOUR WIVES, AND THY STRANGER THAT IS IN THY CAMP, FROM THE HEWER OF THY WOOD UNTO THE DRAWER OF THY WATER:_ Thy stranger that is in thy camp. This term included all classes of foreign servants, whether bought with money (Exodus 12:44) or taken in war, and the children of such per... [ Continue Reading ]
_THAT THOU SHOULDEST ENTER INTO COVENANT WITH THE LORD THY GOD, AND INTO HIS OATH, WHICH THE LORD THY GOD MAKETH WITH THEE THIS DAY:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THAT THE GENERATION TO COME OF YOUR CHILDREN THAT SHALL RISE UP AFTER YOU, AND THE STRANGER THAT SHALL COME FROM A FAR LAND, SHALL SAY, WHEN THEY SEE THE PLAGUES OF THAT LAND, AND THE SICKNESSES WHICH THE LORD HATH LAID UPON IT;_ See the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord h... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THAT THE WHOLE LAND THEREOF IS BRIMSTONE, AND SALT, AND BURNING, THAT IT IS NOT SOWN, NOR BEARETH, NOR ANY GRASS GROWETH THEREIN, LIKE THE OVERTHROW OF SODOM, AND GOMORRAH, ADMAH, AND ZEBOIM, WHICH THE LORD OVERTHREW IN HIS ANGER, AND IN HIS WRATH:_ The whole land thereof is brimstone, and sal... [ Continue Reading ]
_EVEN ALL NATIONS SHALL SAY, WHEREFORE HATH THE LORD DONE THUS UNTO THIS LAND? WHAT MEANETH THE HEAT OF THIS GREAT ANGER?_ ALL NATIONS SHALL SAY, WHEREFORE HATH THE LORD DONE THUS UNTO THIS LAND? In looking at its ruined cities, its blasted coast, its naked mountains, its sterile and parched soil-al... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN MEN SHALL SAY, BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN THE COVENANT OF THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS, WHICH HE MADE WITH THEM WHEN HE BROUGHT THEM FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SECRET THINGS BELONG UNTO THE LORD OUR GOD: BUT THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE REVEALED BELONG UNTO US AND TO OUR CHILDREN FOR EVER, THAT WE MAY DO ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW._ The secret things belong unto the Lord. This verse has no apparent connection with the thread of discourse; and it is thought... [ Continue Reading ]