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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Deuteronomy 27:14

The Levites, i.e. some of the Levites, to wit, the priests, which bare the ark, as it is expressed, Joshua 8:33, for the body of the Levites stood upon Mount Gerizim, Deuteronomy 27:12; but these stood in the valley between Gerizim and Ebal, looking towards the one or the other mountain as they pronounced either the blessings or the curses, as may be gathered from Joshua 8:33. With a loud voice; so as they might be heard by a great number of the people, by whom the rest were informed and directed by some signal when they should answer.

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See also Deuteronomy 27:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Compare Joshua 8:32. The solemnity was apparently designed only for the single occasion on which it actually took place. Deuteronomy 27:12, Deuteronomy 27:13...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    23. THE MEMORIAL OF THE LAW AT MOUNT EBAL; GERIZIM AND EBAL CHAPTER 27 _ 1. The memorial to be set up in the land (Deuteronomy 27:1)_ 2. Gerizim and Ebal (Deuteronomy 27:9) Little comment is needed...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SPEAK, AND SAY. Note idiom, usually rendered in New Testament "answer and say". The first verb is to be rendered according to the context. Here. "curse and say"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Appointment of the Levites to Curse According to 11 13 both a blessing and a curse were to be pronounced, here we have only curses, twelve in number. There _Levi_was one of six tribes appointed to bl...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _answer_ As in Deuteronomy 21:7, _solemnly pronounce_. _with a loud voice_ Lit. a _high voice_, not elsewhere in the O.T. Cp. Deuteronomy 5:19, _a great voice_....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THOUGHT QUESTIONS 27:11-14 471. Why the choice of the tribes to bless? 472. What impression was this whole ceremony to make upon Israel? AMPLIFIED TRANSLATION 27:11-14 11 And Moses charged the pe...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE LEVITES SHALL SPEAK, AND SAY UNTO ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL WITH A LOUD VOICE,_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CEREMONIES TO BE OBSERVED ON REACHING CANAAN This chapter has probably been misplaced, as it seems to break the connexion between Deuteronomy 26 and Deuteronomy 28. It ordains four ceremonies to be ob...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 27 V1 Moses and the leaders of the *Israelites ordered the people. ‘*Keep all the *commandments...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עָנ֣וּ הַ לְוִיִּ֗ם וְ אָֽמְר֛וּ אֶל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    CURSES UPON EVILDOERS Deuteronomy 27:1 Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal were two masses of limestone rock, reaching 2700 and 2000 feet above the sea-level. Between them lay a beautiful valley, about 300...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We have here the record of something distinctive and arresting. Immediately after the close of the second discourse containing a r6sum6 I of laws, Moses and the elders commanded the people that after...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Pronounce. Hebrew, "answer," as the older Protestant editions, 1540, &c., had it; though "our last translators, 1613, says Kennicott, in this, as in several other instances, altered for the worse," s...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Probably from the number of Israel, many Levites was engaged in this service....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Now comes the sanction-that is to say, that which gives vigour to His law-in the consequences (blessings and curses) which were to correspond with obedience or disobedience. This is brought out in cha...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE LEVITES SHALL SPEAK, AND SAY UNTO ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL,.... Rather, "answer e and say"; not the whole tribe of Levi, for that stood on Mount Gerizim to bless, Deuteronomy 27:12; but the pries...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The Levites_ Some of the Levites, namely, the priests, who bare the ark, as it is expressed Joshua 8:33, for the body of the Levites stood upon mount Gerizim, Deuteronomy 27:12. But these stood in th...

  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CURSE PRONOUNCED FROM MOUNT EBAL...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the Levites shall speak, the Levitical priests, the duty of whose position it was, AND SAY UNTO ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL, assembled on the two mountains, WITH A LOUD VOICE,...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    A MEMORIAL ON MOUNT EBAL (vs.1-10) With the directive again to keep all the commandments of the Lord, Moses gave Israel instructions, when they get into the land, to set up large stones coated with...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-26 The six tribes appointed for blessing, were all children of the free women, for to such the promise belongs, Galatians 4:31. Levi is here among the rest. Ministers should apply to themselves th...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 27:14 Levites H3881 speak H6030 (H8804) loud H7311 (H8802) voice H6963 say H559 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    MOSES DESCRIBES HOW THE COVENANT CEREMONY WILL PROCEED ONCE THEY HAVE REACHED SHECHEM (DEUTERONOMY 27:11). On that same day as he had spoken all the words from Deuteronomy 5:1 onwards and given instru...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The blessing and cursing from Mt. Ebal and Gerizim. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: We are all compelled to say Amen to the law of God, owning ourselves justly under its curse and that...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 27:2. _Great stones,_ thought to be twelve in each pillar; they wrote the curses on the one pillar, and the blessings on the other. Deuteronomy 27:3. _Thou shalt write upon them all the wo...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 27:1 Moses’ Third Speech: Blessings and Curses. Ancient covenant treaties included blessings for keeping the treaty conditions and curses for not keeping them (see char...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 27:14 LEVITES must refer to the Levitical priests, since the rest of the tribe of Levi are on Mount Gerizim (see v. Deuteronom

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—Connect this chapter with Deuteronomy 27:16 of preceding one, where Moses concludes discourse on plains of Moab. Here he dwells on sanctions of the law and sets forth in striking detai...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    PART III.—THIRD DISCOURSE OF MOSES. THE COVENANT RENEWED. CHAPTERS 27-30. EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 27:1. INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE PU

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter twenty-seven, when you come into the land you are to take these stones and you are to build a tower and you are to plaster it. And then you are to write on the plaster of the tower the word...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 9:11; Deuteronomy 33:10; Deuteronomy 33:9; Joshua 8:33; Ma

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The Levites — Some of the Levites, namely, the priests, who bare the ark, as it is expressed Joshua 8:33, for the body of the Levites stood upon mount Gerizzim, Deuteronomy 27:12. But these stood in t...

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