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Deuteronomy 26:18

and Jehovah hath caused thee to say this day that thou wilt be unto him a peculiar people … and wilt keep all his commandments Elsewhere in D the singular relation of Israel to Jehovah is stated as His promise and act, Deuteronomy 7:6, q.v., Deuteronomy 14:2; cp. Deuteronomy 27:9; Deuteronomy 29:13 (12). Here is the converse, the people's engagement to be such, as in 2 Kings 11:17. Israel becomes His peculiar people by keeping all His commandments; that is the main thing! The phrase, as he hath said to thee, though unnecessary, is not the -senseless addition," which Steuern, alleges.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 26:18. _AND THE LORD HATH AVOUCHED_] Publicly declared, by the blessings he pours down upon them, that he has taken them to be his peculiar people. Thus the covenant is made and rati...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A brief and earnest exhortation by way of conclusion to the second and longest discourse of the book. Deuteronomy 26:17 THOU HAST AVOUCHED - literally, “made to say:” so also in the next verse. The s...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    22. FIRSTFRUITS AND PRAYER CHAPTER 26 _ 1. The basket of first-fruits, confession and rejoicing (Deuteronomy 26:1)_ 2. Obedience yielded and prayer (Deuteronomy 26:12) 3. Jehovah acknowledges His...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Concluding exhortations to obedience based upon the covenant (Deuteronomy 4:13 *) between Yahweh and Israel, with its mutual obligations. Deuteronomy 26:17_ f_. AVOUCHED: Heb. caused to say, each of t...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PECULIAR. as. treasure. Compare Deuteronomy 7:6, and see note on Exodus 19:5....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 218 COVENANTING WITH GOD EXPLAINED Deuteronomy 26:17. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ju...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (4) CONCLUDING EXHORTATION TO CAREY OUT COMMITMENTS TO GOD AND HIS LAW (Deuteronomy 26:16-19) 16 This day Jehovah thy God commandeth thee to do these statutes and ordinances; thou shalt therefore keep...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PRESENTATION OF FIRSTERUITS AND OF TITHES 1-11. Presentation of the Firstfruits, as a Thankoffering for the mercy of God in delivering the nation from Egypt and in giving them a good land and fru...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 26 V1 ‘The *LORD your God is giving this country to you to possess. You will own it and you wil...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Deuteronomy 26:16. CLOSE OF THE EXHORTATION. (16) THIS DAY THE LORD THY GOD HATH COMMANDED THEE. — These words are not to be taken as part of the service described in the previous verses, but as the w...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַֽ יהוָ֞ה הֶאֱמִֽירְךָ֣ הַ יֹּ֗ום לִ הְיֹ֥ות

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have the final movement in the second of these great farewell discourses of Moses. In it the lawgiver lifted his eyes and looked at the land to be possessed, and proceeded to tell the people h...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I would have the Reader attend to the expressions in these verses, with an eye to the original covenant of grace, and he will then enter into a proper apprehension of them. That original covenant was,...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    To close this succession of ordinances, we have (chap. 26) a most beautiful picture of the worship consequent on the enjoyment of the land according to the promises of God, a picture full of instructi...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    KEEPING THE COVENANT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-19 Moses here enforces the precepts. They are God's laws, therefore thou shalt do them, to that end were they given thee; do them, and dispute them not; do them, and draw not back; do them, not ca...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 26:18 today H3117 LORD H3068 proclaimed H559 (H8689) special H5459 people H5971 promised H1696 (H87

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 26:18 TREASURED POSSESSION... HOLY TO THE LORD. See Deuteronomy 7:6....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—The rehearsal of rights and duties, pubilc and private, terminates in this chapter with two liturgical enactments. These have a clear and close reference to the whole of the preceding...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Avouched thee — Hath owned thee for such before all the world by eminent and glorious manifestations of his power and favour, by a solemn entering into covenant with thee, and giving peculiar laws, pr...

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