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, Ver. 1. _Hear, O Israel._] It was all their business at present to hear, and yet he excites them so to do by an _Oyez,_ as it were. He knew t... [ 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! Ver. 2. _The children of Anak._] Hence seems to come the Greek word, Aναξ, for a king; for these great men were looked upon as so many little king... [ 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. Ver. 3. _As a consuming fire... [ 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. Ver. 4. _For my righteousness._] We a... [ Continue Reading ]
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou [art] a stiffnecked people. Ver. 6. _Understand therefore._] We are wondrous apt to wind ourselves into the fool's paradise of a sublime dotage, upon our own worth and righteousn... [ 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. Ver. 7. _Ye have been rebellious against the Lord._] Nothing is so hard... [ Continue Reading ]
Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. Ver. 8. _The Lord was angry._] God is said to be angry when he doeth as an angry man useth to do: viz., (1.) Chide; (2.) Smite: revenge being the next effect of anger.... [ 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: Ver. 9. _When I was gone up into the mount._] Sins are much aggravated by... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. Ver. 10. _See Trapp on "_ Exo 31:18 _"_... [ 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. Ver. 12. _Arise_] From off thy knees; t... [ Continue Reading ]
Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. Ver. 14. _Let me alone._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 32:10 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant [were] in my two hands. Ver. 15. _So I returned._] Yet not till he had first prayed and prevailed. Exodus 32:1 _; _ Exo 32:14... [ Continue Reading ]
And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. Ver. 16. _Ye had turned aside quickly._] _Levitate prorsus desultoria._ Apostates have _religionem ephemeram,_ being con... [ Continue Reading ]
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. Ver. 17. _And cast them._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 32:19 _"_... [ 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. Ver. 18. _Forty days and forty nights._] This some understand of a... [ 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. Ver. 19. _For I was afraid._] Moses was more troubled for the people than the people were for themselves; so was Daniel for Nebuchadnezzar, D... [ Continue Reading ]
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. Ver. 22. _And at Taberah._] Catalogues should be kept of our sins, and oft perused, yea, though they be pardoned, that we may renew our repentance, and keep our souls humble, supple, and soluble.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. Ver. 24. _You have been rebellious._] Here he repeats the former charge, Deu 9:7 which now he had sufficiently proved against them: we must object no more against any man than we are able to make good. If Erasmus had lived to th... [ 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._ Ver. 25. _Thus I fell down._] The three former verses come in by a parenthesis. Here he returns again to the history of his interceding for them the second... [ Continue Reading ]
I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Ver. 26. _I prayed._] And he had a hard tug of it; but prayer is the best lever at a d... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet they [are] thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm. Ver. 29. _Yet they are thy people._] In praying to God we must "fill our mouths with arguments," and urge them lustily.... [ Continue Reading ]