Deuteronomy 31:1
And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. Ver. 1. _Went and spake,_] _i.e., _ Went on to speak, setting things in order before his death.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. Ver. 1. _Went and spake,_] _i.e., _ Went on to speak, setting things in order before his death.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said unto them, I [am] an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. Ver. 2. _I am a hundred and twenty, &c._] And so might well bespeak them, as Augustus once did his army, and pacified them t... [ Continue Reading ]
The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, [and] he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said. Ver. 3. _And Joshua._] Called Jesus. Heb 4:8 A clear type of Jesus Christ. What Moses could not do bec... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. Ver. 4. _And the Lord shall do unto them._] Every former mercy is a pledge of a future.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. Ver. 5. _According to all the command,_] _sc., _ To root them out utterly. Deu 20:16-17... [ Continue Reading ]
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Ver. 6. _He will not fall thee._] Five times in holy Scriptures is this precious promise repeated; and in Hebrews 13:5, made common to... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. Ver. 7. _For thou must go with this people... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD, he [it is] that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. Ver. 8. _He will not fail thee._] See on Deuteronomy 31:6 .... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. Ver. 9. _Unto the priests._] God's library-keepers, his depositaries. _ Unto all the elders of Israel._] As to the keepers of both tables... [ Continue Reading ]
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Ver. 11. _Thou shalt read this law._] Which was nevertheless "read in their synagogues every Sabbath day." Act 15:21 And by this reading, at the... [ Continue Reading ]
_And [that] their children, which have not known [any thing], may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it._ Ver. 13. _That they may hear, and that they may learn._] Hearing and seeing are by the philosopher called the learned... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. Ver. 14. _In the tabernacle... [ Continue Reading ]
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God [is] not among us? Ver... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. Ver. 18. _Hide my face,_] _i.e., _ Withdraw my favour, and therewith all good.... [ Continue Reading ]
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. Ver. 19. _Put it in their mouths._] That out of their own mouths I may judge them; things made up in metre are better remembe... [ Continue Reading ]
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. Ver. 20. _Then they will t... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which... [ Continue Reading ]
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. Ver. 22. _And taught it the children._] “ _Metra parant animos, pristina cornmemorant._ ”... [ Continue Reading ]
And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee. Ver. 23. _I will be with thee._] This must needs put mettle into him; for "if God be with us, who can be... [ Continue Reading ]
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. Ver. 26. _In the side of the ark._] That it might be heard and regarded as the very law of God, though penned by Moses. And indeed the Jews at this day... [ Continue Reading ]
_For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt [yourselves], and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands._ Ver. 29. _To provoke... [ Continue Reading ]