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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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SO RIGHTEOUS. See App-15. Compare 2 Samuel 7:23....
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_And what great nation … hath statutes … so righteous_ This
challenge is as just as the preceding. Other great codes and systems
of ethics there undoubtedly were in Israel's world (e.g. the Code of
Ḫa...
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Enforcement of the Impending Legislation
The main purpose of the discourse, the enforcement of the Laws about
to be given, for on the practice of these depends Israel's survival in
the Land (Deuteron...
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DISCOURSE: 190
MOSES’ SOLEMN CHARGE TO ISRAEL
Deuteronomy 4:7. What nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh
unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him
for? And what n...
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_VER._ 8. _WHAT NATION IS THERE SO GREAT,_ &C.— That which
constitutes the principal glory of a nation, is a pure worship,
sincerely offered to the true God, and a right administration of
justice. Upo...
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LESSON FOUR DEUTERONOMY 4:1-43
B. SIGNIFICANCE OF PAST EVENTS (Deuteronomy 4:1-40)
1. BLESSINGS PROMISED FOR THOSE WHO HEED GOD'S ALL-SUFFICIENT LAW
(Deuteronomy 4:1-8)
a. PROSPERIT
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_AND WHAT NATION IS THERE SO GREAT, THAT HATH STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS
SO RIGHTEOUS AS ALL THIS LAW, WHICH I SET BEFORE YOU THIS DAY?_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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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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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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WHAT NATION IS THERE SO GREAT, THAT HATH STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS SO
RIGHTEOUS? — These words direct our attention to the law of Moses,
as distinctly _in advance of the time_ when it was given....
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וּ מִי֙ גֹּ֣וי גָּדֹ֔ול אֲשֶׁר ־לֹ֛ו
חֻקִּ֥ים
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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“TAKE HEED TO THYSELF”
Deuteronomy 3:23; Deuteronomy 4:1
Strong faith was required by the two and a half tribes to leave their
wives and children while they went to succor their brethren. But God's
c...
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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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_Eyes. Most of these laws had been already promulgated, so that the
people could set a just value upon them. But Moses undertakes to place
the in a more beautiful point of view, as it were altogether,...
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Into what an astonishing degree of nearness, are believers now brought
by the blood of JESUS! Reader! pause and contemplate your vast
privileges; and ask your own heart that question, Am I indeed brou...
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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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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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AND WHAT NATION IS THERE SO GREAT, THAT HATH STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS SO
RIGHTEOUS,.... Founded in justice and equity, and so agreeable to
right reason, and so well calculated and adapted to lead person...
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And what nation [is there so] great, that hath statutes and judgments
[so] righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Ver. 8. _So righteous._] _See Trapp on "_ Deu 1:1 _"_...
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_So nigh_ By glorious miracles, by the pledges of his special
presence, by the operations of his grace, and particularly by his
readiness to hear our prayers, and to give us those succours which we
ca...
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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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And what nation is there so great that hath statutes and judgments so
righteous as all this Law which I set before you this day? All true
righteousness of life has its roots in God, and the more the k...
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Moses Reminds the People of the Law-Giving....
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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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1-23 The power and love of God to Israel are here made the ground and
reason of a number of cautions and serious warnings; and although
there is much reference to their national covenant, yet all may...
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Whereby he implies that the true greatness of a nation doth not
consist in pomp or power, or largeness of empire, as commonly men
think, but in the righteousness of its laws....
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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 4:8 great H1419 nation H1471 statutes H2706 righteous
H6662 judgments H4941 law H8451 set H5414 (H8802
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THEY ARE FORTUNATE AMONG THE NATIONS BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HAVE
RECEIVED (DEUTERONOMY 4:6).
This may be analysed as follows:
a They are to keep (shamar) Yahweh's statutes and judgments and do
them for...
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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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_And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and Judgments
so righteous?_
A RIGHTEOUS BIBLE
The appeal of Moses is the eternal appeal of the Bible. That is the
appeal to common sense and to...
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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 4:7 God is SO NEAR to his people,
especially in answering their prayers (WHENEVER WE CALL UPON HIM). God
is also “very near” them through his word ...
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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 4:1
ADMONITIONS AND EXHORTATIONS. Moses, having presented to the people
certain facts in their recent history which had in them a specially
animating and encouraging tendency,...
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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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2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Timothy 3:17; Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 10:13;...
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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...