Deuteronomy 29:2 (1) 30. A Discourse or Discourses This section is presented as one discourse. The two chs. exhibit, however, such differences in address, in language and possibly (though this is not so clear) in standpoint that they can hardly have been originally a unity. Both, however, bear sign... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 29:1 is thus an editorial addition, probably inserted to close what precedes, when 29 f. was added to D. On _covenants_, and those of Ḥoreb and Moab respectively, see on Deuteronomy 4:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
_And Moses called … unto them_ Song of Solomon 5:1. For the rest cp. Deuteronomy 11:2. _Ye_is emphatic. Heb.: _Ye_, YOURSELVES, _have seen_.... [ Continue Reading ]
TESTS … SIGNS … PORTENTS] See on Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 7:19. _Which thine eyes saw_, Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy 7:19; Deuteronomy 10:21; the Sg. betrays the composite nature of the passage.... [ Continue Reading ]
_an heart to know_ The _heart_the seat of the practical understanding; -not the seat of the affections, but the mind itself, the intellectual faculty of the soul" (Calvin), yet always in a moral aspect; see on Deuteronomy 4:39; Deuteronomy 6:6. _Eyes_and _ears_, figures here of the spiritual senses,... [ Continue Reading ]
_I have led you_, etc.] So Amos 2:10; cp. above Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 8:2. _I_, here the speaker's personality, is merged in that of the Deity; for other instances see on Deuteronomy 7:4. But LXX has ἤγαγεν. _your clothes_, etc.] Varied from Deuteronomy 8:4. With Sam. LXX read YOUR SHOES and... [ Continue Reading ]
The _v_. is parallel to Deuteronomy 8:3. The last clause is not found in D, but occurs (_minus_the deut. addition _your God_) in J, Exodus 7:17; Exodus 8:22; Exodus 10:2; in P, Exodus 6:7 (+ 5 times); and in Ezek. more than 50 times. Also the lighter form of the first personal pronoun is employed he... [ Continue Reading ]
_came unto this place_ Deuteronomy 1:31; Deuteronomy 9:7. _Sihon … and Og_ Deuteronomy 2:32 ff., Deuteronomy 3:1 ff.... [ Continue Reading ]
_gave it for an inheritance_ Deuteronomy 3:12 f.; for the formula see on Deuteronomy 4:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Keep … and do_ See on Deuteronomy 4:6; and cp. Deuteronomy 4:1; Deuteronomy 5:1. _the words of this covenant_ See above on Deuteronomy 29:1 and on Deuteronomy 4:13. _prosper_ But the vb. also covers the _deal wisely_of the R.V. margin. -Originally a mental process or quality _has insight, is farse... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye stand_ The Heb. is stronger, and probably reflexive: _ye have taken your station_or _position_. _all of you_ This comprehensiveness, and the exhaustive definition by which it is followed are striking. Not only the representatives of the people _your heads, your_ JUDGES (which read for _tribes_th... [ Continue Reading ]
_enter into the covenant_ Lit. _pass over into_only here. Cp. the _passing over_into a select and numbered body, Exodus 30:13 f. (P); also the prepositions in our terms - _trans_-act," -carry _through_." On _covenant_see Deuteronomy 4:13. _and into his oath_ Cp. Nehemiah 10:29: _enter into an oath_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Deuteronomy 26:17 f. and Deuteronomy 28:9; _as he sware_, Deuteronomy 1:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Deuteronomy 5:3; Deuteronomy 29:15 is better rendered, _but at once with him that standeth here … and with him that is not here with us this day_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_for ye know_, etc.] The necessity for such a covenant with Jehovah: viz. Israel's experiences of the idolatry of other peoples, which otherwise might seduce them to itself. The Egyptian idolatry has not before been mentioned in Deut. _Came through_and _passed_are the same vb.: the _idem per idem_co... [ Continue Reading ]
_abominations_ Rather DETESTABLE THINGS, not _to -ebôth_, as in Deuteronomy 7:25, but _shiḳḳuṣîm_, frequent in Jer. and Ezek. of idols, nowhere else in Deut., but the vb. from which it comes is found in Deuteronomy 7:26. _idols_ Heb. _gillulîm_, a scornful term meaning either _things gross_or _coars... [ Continue Reading ]
_lest there should be_ Perhaps better, _may there not be!_ this day Not in LXX and here out of place. _to go to serve_ Deuteronomy 13:6; Deuteronomy 13:13 (7, 14), Deuteronomy 17:3. _a root that beareth_ Only here. _gall_ Heb. _rôsh_, lit. _head_, sometimes interpreted of the poppy; either that o... [ Continue Reading ]
_curse_ Rather OATH, for it is on the strength of Jehovah's oath to be Israel's God and so to protect them, that this Israelite flatters himself he is secure, no matter how he may behave. In the history of religion such a delusion has been lamentably frequent, and believers in extreme doctrines of e... [ Continue Reading ]
_the Lord will not_ CONSENT TO _pardon him_ There are two vbs as in Deuteronomy 1:26 _q.v._ his jealousy See on Deuteronomy 4:24; with this and the vb. _smoke_cp. Deuteronomy 32:21 f., Psalms 74:1. _shall lie_ Or _crouch_, cp. Genesis 4:7. But LXX and Targ. read _cleave unto_, perhaps rightly. _bl... [ Continue Reading ]
_separate_ See on Deuteronomy 4:41. _Unto evil_, Jeremiah 21:10; Jeremiah 29:11; Jeremiah 38:4; Jeremiah 39:16; Jeremiah 44:11; Jeremiah 44:27; Jeremiah 44:29; but also in Amos 9:4;... [ Continue Reading ]
_plagues_ Or _strokes_, see Deuteronomy 28:59; Deuteronomy 28:61. _the sicknesses_ This word only here, Jeremiah 14:18; Jeremiah 16:4; Psalms 103:3; 2 Chronicles 21:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
_brimstone_, etc.] The prediction is in terms of the surroundings of the Dead Sea. _Beareth_, lit. _causeth to sprout; grass_better _herbage_. _Sodom … Zeboiim_ Amos 4:11; Hosea 11:8; Genesis 14:2; Genesis 19:24 f.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then men shall say_, etc.] Similarly Jeremiah 22:8 f. The phrase, _forsook the covenant_occurs there, 1 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 19:14 and Daniel 11:30, but not elsewhere in Deut. (_forget_is used instead); though Deuteronomy 28:20 has _forsaking me_, cp. Deuteronomy 31:16; Deuteronomy 32:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
_went and served_ See Deuteronomy 29:18; on _whom they knew not_cp. Deuteronomy 8:3; Deuteronomy 8:16; Deuteronomy 11:28; on _given_or allotted see note on Deuteronomy 4:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
_curse_ As in Deuteronomy 28:15 ff.; and another word than in Deuteronomy 29:20 f.... [ Continue Reading ]
_rooted them out_ Heb. _natash_, not elsewhere in the Hex. but common in Jer. e.g. Deuteronomy 1:10; Deuteronomy 12:15. _in anger, and in_ FURY, _and in great_ WRATH] (Driver). So Jeremiah 21:5; Jeremiah 32:37. _cast them into another land_ Jeremiah 22:26: -I will cast thee out (another vb.) … _in... [ Continue Reading ]
_The_still _hidden things_are the future (cp. Isaiah 48:6), the _things that are revealed_are those just reviewed, God's deeds and words in the past and present. That among these present things is the Exile, as the result of Israel's disobedience, is not certain, but it seems implied. Only its issue... [ Continue Reading ]