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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Deuteronomy 11

Deuteronomy 11:1

DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 11 Moses exhorts them to obedience by rehearsing God's works, DEUTERONOMY 11:1, and by the excellency of the land they were to possess, DEUTERONOMY 11:10. A promise of blessings to their obedience, DEUTERONOMY 11:13. They are warned against idolatry, DEUTERONOMY 11:16,17. To teac... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 11:4

The effect of which destruction continueth to this day, in their weakness and fear, and our safety from all their further attempts against us.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 11:10

i.e. With great pains and labour of thy feet, partly by going up and down to fetch water and disperse it, and partly by digging furrows with thy foot, and using engines for distributing the water, which engines they thrust with their feet. For though the river Nilus did once in a year overflow the g... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 11:11

A LAND OF HILLS AND VALLEYS; and therefore much more healthful than Egypt was, which as it was enriched, so it was annoyed with Nilus, which overflowed the land in summer time, and thereby made the country both unpleasant and, which is much worse, unhealthful. And health being the greatest of all ou... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 11:12

LAND WHICH THE LORD CARETH FOR, to wit, in a special manner, watering it immediately as it were by his own hand, without man's help, and giving peculiar blessings to it, which Egypt enjoys not. THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE ALWAYS UPON US, to give it the rain and other blessings proper to the several sea... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 11:14

THE RAIN OF YOUR LAND, i.e. which is needful and sufficient for your land; or which is proper to your land, not common to Egypt, where, as all authors agree, there is little or no rain. THE FIRST RAIN AND THE LATTER RAIN; the first fell in seed time, to make the corn spring, the other a little befor... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 11:16

THAT YOUR HEART BE NOT DECEIVED by the specious pretenses of idolaters, who will plead the general consent of all nations, except yours, in the worship of creatures, and that they worship the creatures only for God's sake, and as they are glorious works of God, whom they worship in and by them; whic... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 11:17

Heaven is compared sometimes to a bottle, JOB 38:37, which may be either stopped or opened; sometimes to a great storehouse, wherein God lays up his treasures of rain, JOB 38:22 PSALMS 33:7, the doors whereof God is said to _open_ when he gives rain, and to shut when he withholds it. See 1 KINGS 8:3... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 11:21

i.e. As long as this visible world lasts, whilst the heaven keeps its place and continues its influences upon earth, until all these things be dissolved. Compare PSALMS 72:5, PSALMS 81:15 89:29 JEREMIAH 33:25.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 11:24

EVERY PLACE; not absolutely, as if the Jews should be lords of all the world, as the rabbins fondly conceit; but in the Promised Land, as it is restrained in the following words. SHALL BE YOURS, either by possession, or by dominion, to wit, upon condition of your obedience. FROM THE WILDERNESS, to w... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 11:29

THOU SHALT PUT THE BLESSING, Heb. _thou shalt give_, i.e. speak or pronounce, or cause to be pronounced. So the word _to give_ is used, DEUTERONOMY 13:1,2 JOB 36:3 PROVERBS 9:9. This is more particularly expressed DEUTERONOMY 27:12,13 JOS 8:33, whither I refer the reader.... [ Continue Reading ]

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