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Verse Deuteronomy 4:29. _BUT IF FROM THENCE THOU SHALT SEEK THE LORD_]
God is longsuffering, and of tender mercy; and waits, ever ready, to
receive a backsliding soul when it returns to him. Is not th...
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Unwilling, as it might seem, to close his discourse with words of
terror, Moses makes a last appeal to them in these verses in a
different strain.
Deuteronomy 4:34
TEMPTATIONS - Compare Deuteronomy 7...
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3. HEARKEN, O ISRAEL!
CHAPTER 4
_ 1. Obedience demanded (Deuteronomy 4:1)_
2. The covenant to be observed (Deuteronomy 4:9)
3. Take heed unto yourselves lest ye forget (Deuteronomy 4:15
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SECOND PART OF MOSES-' FIRST ADDRESS. This contains exhortations to
obedience from motives of self-interest and of gratitude to Yahweh,
and forms an apparent logical unity with Deuteronomy 1:6 to
Deut...
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THOU SHALT. This agrees with the Samaritan Pentateuch Text, but the
printed Hebrew Text has "ye shall".
SEEK. Compare Leviticus 26:40; Jeremiah 29:13, &c.
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ See App-13....
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_But if from thence ye shall seek … thou shalt find_ The Pl. _ye_is
due either to the attraction of the plurals of the previous verses or
to a dittography. How easily the former worked is seen from th...
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Threat of Exile with Promise of Grace on Repentance
If, with the slackness of increasing years, Israel give way to
idolatry (Deuteronomy 4:25) Moses testifies that they shall perish
from the land (De...
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_VER._ 27-29. _AND THE LORD SHALL SCATTER YOU,_ &C.— See the notes
on ch. 28: and 30: When it is said of the idols, in ver. 28 that _they
neither see nor hear,_ &c. the sacred writer intends only to r...
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d. REPENTANCE WILL REVEAL GOD'S GRACE (Deuteronomy 4:29-31)
29 But from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find
him, when thou searchest after him with all thy heart and with all thy...
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_BUT IF FROM THENCE THOU SHALT SEEK THE LORD THY GOD, THOU SHALT FIND
HIM, IF THOU SEEK HIM WITH ALL THY HEART AND WITH ALL THY SOUL._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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FIRST DISCOURSE (DEUTERONOMY 1:14 TO DEUTERONOMY 4:43)
The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The
Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the
Promised Land...
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EXHORTATIONS TO OBEDIENCE
This chapter contains the practical part of the discourse. Having
briefly rehearsed the experiences of the Israelites in the wilderness
up to the present point, Moses closes...
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 4
V1 ‘Therefore, everyone in *Israel, listen to the rules and the
laws that I will teach to you...
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וּ בִקַּשְׁתֶּ֥ם מִ שָּׁ֛ם אֶת
־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹה
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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JEHOVAH “A JEALOUS GOD”
Deuteronomy 4:15
How often Moses repeats, “ _take heed._ ” We must watch as well as
pray and keep our souls diligently. We must specially beware of
idols-that is, any visible...
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On the ground of this survey Moser exhorted the people to be obedient,
His appeal was based on the greatness of their God and the perfection
of His law. Their whole existence as a nation centered arou...
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But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find
[him], if thou seek him with all thy (t) heart and with all thy soul.
(t) Not with outward show or ceremony, but with a true confe...
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CHAPTER IV.
There. Hebrew, "thence" from the place of captivity, or returning
from the love of idols to the services of the true God. --- Soul.
Hebrew, "with all thy soul. (Ver. 30) In thy tribulatio...
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Reader! pause over those verses, and then call to mind that,
concerning the dispersed of Israel, even now in the present hour this
blessed promise hath not lost its force. The promise is sure. The
eve...
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In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be
called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of
institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
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29._But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord_. In this passage also
he exhorts and encourages them in the confidence of obtaining pardon,
and thus anticipates them, so that they might not be overwh...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1, 2, 3, AND 4.
Let us examine a little more closely these Chapter s, which shew the
pains the Spirit took, to set before the eyes of the people all the
moti...
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BUT IF FROM THENCE THOU SHALT SEEK THE LORD THY GOD,.... By prayer and
supplication, acknowledging and confessing sin, and desiring that God
would be gracious and forgive it, and bring them out of the...
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But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find
[him], if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Ver. 29. _But if from thence._] Sweet and sour make the best sau...
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_Ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands_ You shall be compelled
by men, and given up by me, to idolatry. So that very thing which was
your choice, shall be your punishment: it being just and usu...
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1 An Exhortation to obedience.
41 Moses appointeth the three Cities of refuge on that side Iordan.
1 NOWE therefore hearken, O Israel, vnto the Statutes, and vnto the
Iudgments which I teach you, fo...
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But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord, thy God, turning back to
Him in true repentance, THOU SHALT FIND HIM, IF THOU SEEK HIM WITH ALL
THY HEART AND WITH ALL THY SOUL. Cf Luke 15:17. The promise...
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The Appeal Supported by a Reference to God's Kindness...
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MOSES INSISTS ON OBEDIENCE
(vs.1-14)
Because God had already blessed Israel and intended to bless them more
greatly still. Moses urges them to "listen to the statutes and
judgments" he is teaching th...
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24-40 Moses urged the greatness, glory, and goodness of God. Did we
consider what a God he is with whom we have to do, we should surely
make conscience of our duty to him, and not dare to sin against...
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IF THOU SEEK HIM; if thou desirest his help and favour. See
DEUTERONOMY 30:2 ISAIAH 45:6. WITH ALL THY HEART, i.e. sincerely and
fervently....
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Now therefore hearken O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
judgements which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go
in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth...
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Deuteronomy 4:29 seek H1245 (H8765) LORD H3068 God H430 find H4672
(H8804) seek H1875 (H8799) heart...
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WHAT THEIR FATE WILL BE IF THEY TURN AWAY FROM HIM TO GRAVEN IMAGES
(DEUTERONOMY 4:25).
This fate had already been portrayed by what had happened to their
fathers who were driven from the land (Deuter...
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CONTENTS: The new generations taught the lessons of Sinai. Cities of
refuge designated.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: The review of God's providences concerning us should
quicken us and engage...
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Deuteronomy 4:2. _Ye shall not add unto the word._ This would be to
debase revelation, and treat the divine law as a defective production
of man, that needed additions and retrenchments. Solon, the At...
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_If from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God._
CONVERSIONS ENCOURAGED
I. First, then, there is a time mentioned. “If from thence thou
shalt seek the Lord. .. When thou art in tribulation, and al...
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_Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go
in and possess the land._
MOSES’ DISCOURSE
1. In general it is...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 4:29 Exile is not the end. There
remains hope of repentance and return (see Deuteronomy 30:1). with all
your heart and... soul
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CRITICAL NOTES.—From the mention of what God had done for Israel,
Moses passes to the obedience of the law. They were under deep
obligation to keep it, and in doing so, consisted their wisdom,
greatne...
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EXPOSITION
DEUTERONOMY 4:25-5
Moses enforces the warning against idolatry, by predicting the evil
that should come upon the nation through the apostasy of those who
should in after times turn from Je...
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NOW therefore (Deuteronomy 4:1)
Moses is now making application.
NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and to the
judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that you may live, and go in
a...
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PARTING WORDS
Deuteronomy 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
It is, perhaps, strange to some that we speak of the fourth chapter of
Deuteronomy as "Parting words," yet the whole Book of Deuteronomy
centers in t...
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If from thence thou seek the Lord — Whatever place we are in, we may
from thence seek him. There is no part of the earth which has a gulf
fixt between it and heaven....