_HEAR, O ISRAEL: THOU ART TO PASS OVER JORDAN THIS DAY, TO GO IN TO POSSESS NATIONS GREATER AND MIGHTIER THAN THYSELF, CITIES GREAT AND FENCED UP TO HEAVEN,_ THIS DAY - means this time. The Israelites had 40 years before reached the confines of the promised land, but were obliged, to their great mor... [ Continue Reading ]
_A PEOPLE GREAT AND TALL, THE CHILDREN OF THE ANAKIMS, WHOM THOU KNOWEST, AND OF WHOM THOU HAST HEARD SAY, WHO CAN STAND BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ANAK!_ Anakims ... of whom thou hast heard say. The currency of this familiar saying in the days of Moses warrants the inference, which is supported by oth... [ Continue Reading ]
_UNDERSTAND THEREFORE THIS DAY, THAT THE LORD THY GOD IS HE WHICH GOETH OVER BEFORE THEE; AS A CONSUMING FIRE HE SHALL DESTROY THEM, AND HE SHALL BRING THEM DOWN BEFORE THY FACE: SO SHALT THOU DRIVE THEM OUT, AND DESTROY THEM QUICKLY, AS THE LORD HATH SAID UNTO THEE._ No JFB commentary on this vers... [ Continue Reading ]
_SPEAK NOT THOU IN THINE HEART, AFTER THAT THE LORD THY GOD HATH CAST THEM OUT FROM BEFORE THEE, SAYING,_ _ FOR MY RIGHTEOUSNESS THE LORD HATH BROUGHT ME IN TO POSSESS THIS LAND: BUT FOR THE WICKEDNESS OF THESE NATIONS THE LORD DOTH DRIVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE THEE._ Speak not ... saying, For my rig... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOT FOR THY RIGHTEOUSNESS, OR FOR THE UPRIGHTNESS OF THINE HEART, DOST THOU GO TO POSSESS THEIR LAND: BUT FOR THE WICKEDNESS OF THESE NATIONS THE LORD THY GOD DOTH DRIVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE THEE, AND THAT HE MAY PERFORM THE WORD WHICH THE LORD SWARE UNTO THY FATHERS, ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB._ N... [ Continue Reading ]
_REMEMBER, AND FORGET NOT, HOW THOU PROVOKEDST THE LORD THY GOD TO WRATH IN THE WILDERNESS: FROM THE DAY THAT THOU DIDST DEPART OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, UNTIL YE CAME UNTO THIS PLACE, YE HAVE BEEN REBELLIOUS AGAINST THE LORD._ Remember ... how thou provokedst the Lord. To dislodge from their minds... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALSO IN HOREB YE PROVOKED THE LORD TO WRATH, SO THAT THE LORD WAS ANGRY WITH YOU TO HAVE DESTROYED YOU._ Also in Horeb - rather, 'even in Horeb,' where it might have been expected they would have acted otherwise.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN I WAS GONE UP INTO THE MOUNT TO RECEIVE THE TABLES OF STONE, EVEN THE TABLES OF THE COVENANT WHICH THE LORD MADE WITH YOU, THEN I ABODE IN THE MOUNT FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS, I NEITHER DID EAT BREAD NOR DRINK WATER:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, ARISE, GET THEE DOWN QUICKLY FROM HENCE; FOR THY PEOPLE WHICH THOU HAST BROUGHT FORTH OUT OF EGYPT HAVE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES; THEY ARE QUICKLY TURNED ASIDE OUT OF THE WAY WHICH I COMMANDED THEM; THEY HAVE MADE THEM A MOLTEN IMAGE._ Arise, get thee down ... for thy people... [ Continue Reading ]
_FURTHERMORE THE LORD SPAKE UNTO ME, SAYING, I HAVE SEEN THIS PEOPLE, AND, BEHOLD, IT IS A STIFFNECKED PEOPLE:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I TOOK THE TWO TABLES, AND CAST THEM OUT OF MY TWO HANDS, AND BRAKE THEM BEFORE YOUR EYES._ I took the two tables ... and brake them before your eyes - not in the heat of intemperate passion, but in righteous indignation; from zeal to vindicate the unsullied honour of God, and, by the suggesti... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LORD, AS AT THE FIRST, FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS: I DID NEITHER EAT BREAD, NOR DRINK WATER, BECAUSE OF ALL YOUR SINS WHICH YE SINNED, IN DOING WICKEDLY IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, TO PROVOKE HIM TO ANGER._ I fell down before the Lord. The sudden and painful reaction whic... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR I WAS AFRAID OF THE ANGER AND HOT DISPLEASURE, WHEREWITH THE LORD WAS WROTH AGAINST YOU TO DESTROY YOU. BUT THE LORD HEARKENED UNTO ME AT THAT TIME ALSO._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD WAS VERY ANGRY WITH AARON TO HAVE DESTROYED HIM: AND I PRAYED FOR AARON ALSO THE SAME TIME._ The Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him. By allowing himself to be over-borne by the tide of popular clamour, he became a partaker in the guilt of idolatry, and would have suf... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I TOOK YOUR SIN, THE CALF WHICH YE HAD MADE, AND BURNT IT WITH FIRE, AND STAMPED IT, AND GROUND IT VERY SMALL, EVEN UNTIL IT WAS AS SMALL AS DUST: AND I CAST THE DUST THEREOF INTO THE BROOK THAT DESCENDED OUT OF THE MOUNT._ I took your sin - i:e., the fruit of your sin. I cast the dust thereof... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AT TABERAH, AND AT MASSAH, AND AT KIBROTH-HATTA'AVAH, YE PROVOKED THE LORD TO WRATH._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THUS I FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LORD FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS, AS I FELL DOWN AT THE FIRST; BECAUSE THE LORD HAD SAID HE WOULD DESTROY YOU._ Thus I fell down before the Lord ... as I fell down at the first. After the enumeration of various acts of rebellion, he had mentioned the outbreak at Kadesh-... [ Continue Reading ]