Deuteronomy 10:14

This and the next v. state motives for the fearand lovejust enjoined: for fear, because He is the greatest God, to whom all things belong; for lovebecause, though He is such, He yet loved Israel's fathers and chose their posterity, even those whom Moses is addressing.

the heaven, etc.] A characteristic deuteronomic accumulation.

heaven of heavens i.e. the highest heavens (the same idiom as in Deuteronomy 10:17). Whether this idiomatic superlative (first here and then echoed in later passages, 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 2:6; Nehemiah 9:6; Psalms 68:33; Psalms 148:4) or the plural positive heavenswas the germ of the later idea of the plurality of heavens (in the Jewish apocalyptic books and the N.T., e.g. 2 Corinthians 12:2; Ephesians 4:10 R.V.) is uncertain; but the development of the idea was due to the influences of Babylonian and Persian cosmologies and eschatologies. See S. D. F. Salmond, art. -Heaven" in Hastings" D.B., and Charles, Secrets of Enoch, 30 47.