These [be] the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red [sea], between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. Ver. 1. _These be the words which Moses spake._] And surely he spake much, if he spake, as some cas... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 1:2 ([There are] eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.) Ver. 2. There are eleven days'journey.] So many days' march for a foot army. But Philo the Jew saith a horseman might despatch it in three days. _a_ a _Triduo confici potuit._... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, [that] Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; Ver. 3. _In the eleventh month._] And in the twelfth month of this same year he... [ Continue Reading ]
_After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:_ Ver. 4. _After he had slain Sihon._] If Samson had not turned aside to see the lion, that not long before he had slain, he had not found the honey in the carcass... [ Continue Reading ]
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, Ver. 5. _Began Moses to declare._] And he was not long about it. _See Trapp on "_ Deu 1:1 _"_ A ready heart makes riddance of God's work; for being oiled with the Spirit, it becomes lithe and nimble, quick of despatc... [ Continue Reading ]
The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: Ver. 6. _Long enough._] The law is not for men to continue under, but for a time till they be fitted for Christ. Gal 3:16-25 Humbled they must be, and hammered for a season; sense of misery goes before sense o... [ Continue Reading ]
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all [the places] nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. Ver. 7. _Un... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them. Ver. 8. _Go in and possess it._] God was ready, but they were not ripe for such a mercy. So 2Ch 20:33 the high places... [ Continue Reading ]
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: Ver. 9. _I am not able._] _Politici et ecclesiastici labores maximi sunt,_ saith Luther. None have so hard a tug of it as magistrates and ministers. Iσοθεοι ημεν, ει μη και πραγατα και φροντιδας και φσβους υπερ παντα... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 1:11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye [are], and bless you, as he hath promised you!) Ver. 11. _The Lord God of your fathers._] Such holy ejaculations, such sallies of soul, and egression of affection to God and his people, are frequently found... [ Continue Reading ]
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? Ver. 12. _Hear your cumbrance._] A prince's temples are not so compassed with a crown, as his mind besieged with cares; nor is he so lifted up with the splendour of his train, as cast down with the multitude of his fears.... [ Continue Reading ]
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. Ver. 15. _And officers among your tribes._] That might put the laws in execu... [ Continue Reading ]
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously between [every] man and his brother, and the stranger [that is] with him. Ver. 16. _Hear the causes, &c._] Hear them out. In the Forum of Rome the accuser had six hours allotted him to acc... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; [but] ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment [is] God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring [it] unto me, and I will hear it. Ver. 17. _Ye shall not respect persons._] God will su... [ Continue Reading ]
And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea. Ver. 19. _That great and terrible wilderness._] Abounding with want of all necessities, Je... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up [and] possess [it], as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. Ver. 21. _Behold the Lord._] _See Trapp on "_ Deu 1:8 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. Ver. 22. _We will send men before us._] Thus empty man will be wiser than God, though "man b... [ Continue Reading ]
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: Ver. 23. _Pleased me well._] Seeing you were set upon it, and it would be no better.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought [it] down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, [It is] a good land which the LORD our God doth give us. Ver. 25. _And brought us word again._] Joshua and Caleb did; for the rest are not here reckoned of; God counts of men b... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. Ver. 27. _Because the Lord hated us._] A gross mistake. Why should it then so greatly grieve us. that our good intention... [ Continue Reading ]
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. Ver. 31. _As a man doth bear his son._] Charily and tenderly, as his own heart; not hating them, as they desperately belied the Lo... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God, Ver. 32. _Ye did not believe._] _Sic surdo plerunque fabulam:_ there was none within to make answer. "Who hath believed our report?" &c. We cannot get men to credit us.... [ Continue Reading ]
Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither. Ver. 37. _The Lord was angry with me._] The saint's afflictions proceed oft from love displeased, from love offended. "Fury is not in God." Isa 27:4... [ Continue Reading ]
Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. Ver. 41. _We have sinned, we will go up._] Temporaries are... [ Continue Reading ]
So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode [there]. Ver. 46. _So ye abode in Kadesh many days._] Many indeed; yea, many years. And here it was, or hereabouts, that they received those laws which are recorded, Num 15:1-41 as also that they stoned him that gathered sticks... [ Continue Reading ]