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23. THE MEMORIAL OF THE LAW AT MOUNT EBAL; GERIZIM AND EBAL
CHAPTER 27
_ 1. The memorial to be set up in the land (Deuteronomy 27:1)_
2. Gerizim and Ebal (Deuteronomy 27:9)
Little comment is needed...
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_unhewn stones_ See R.V. margin. Exodus 20:25: _thou shalt not build
it of hewn stones_.
_burnt offerings_ Heb. _-olôth_; see on Deuteronomy 12:6....
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Cp. E, Exodus 20:24 f. with Driver's notes....
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Erection of Stones for the Inscription of the Law, and of an Altar
Moses and the elders charged the people to keep the commandment (1);
when they cross Jordan they shall set up stones and, whitening...
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LESSON TWENTY-ONE DEUTERONOMY 27:1 TO DEUTERONOMY 28:68
III. THE THIRD DISCOURSE
Future of Israel Foretold (Deuteronomy 27:1 to...
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_AND THERE SHALT THOU BUILD AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD THY GOD, AN ALTAR
OF STONES: THOU SHALT NOT LIFT UP ANY IRON TOOL UPON THEM._
There shalt thou build an altar ... of whole stones. The stones were
t...
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CEREMONIES TO BE OBSERVED ON REACHING CANAAN
This chapter has probably been misplaced, as it seems to break the
connexion between Deuteronomy 26 and Deuteronomy 28. It ordains four
ceremonies to be ob...
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 27
V1 Moses and the leaders of the *Israelites ordered the people.
‘*Keep all the *commandments...
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BURNT OFFERINGS. — The idea of these is the dedication of man’s
life to God....
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אֲבָנִ֤ים שְׁלֵמֹות֙ תִּבְנֶ֔ה אֶת
־מִזְבַּ֖ח יְהוָ֣ה...
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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CURSES UPON EVILDOERS
Deuteronomy 27:1
Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal were two masses of limestone rock,
reaching 2700 and 2000 feet above the sea-level. Between them lay a
beautiful valley, about 300...
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We have here the record of something distinctive and arresting.
Immediately after the close of the second discourse containing a
r6sum6 I of laws, Moses and the elders commanded the people that after...
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_Polished. Hebrew simply, "of whole stones."_...
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I beg the Reader not to overlook the plainness to be observed in the
building of this altar: nothing of human art or labour was to be
joined with it, nor any human tool to pollute it. And as CHRIST is...
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It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this
book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22.
What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
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Now comes the sanction-that is to say, that which gives vigour to His
law-in the consequences (blessings and curses) which were to
correspond with obedience or disobedience. This is brought out in
cha...
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THOU SHALL BUILD THE ALTAR OF THE LORD THY GOD OF WHOLE STONES,....
And of such Joshua did build it, Joshua 8:31;
AND THOU SHALT OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS THEREON UNTO THE LORD THY GOD;
and very likely s...
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_Whole stones_ Rough, not hewn, nor polished, whereby all manner of
imagery was avoided. _Shalt offer burnt-offerings thereon_ In order to
ratify their covenant with God, as they did at Horeb. By the...
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1 The people are commanded to write the Law vpon stones,
5 and to build an Altar of whole stones.
11 The Tribes diuided on Gerizzim and Ebal.
14 The curses pronounced on mount Ebal.
1 AND Moses wi...
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Thou shalt build the altar of the Lord, thy God, of whole stones; and
thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord, thy God, as
expressing the entire and undivided devotion of Israel to Jeho...
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THE STONE MONUMENT...
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A MEMORIAL ON MOUNT EBAL
(vs.1-10)
With the directive again to keep all the commandments of the Lord,
Moses gave Israel instructions, when they get into the land, to set up
large stones coated with...
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1-10 As soon as they were come into Canaan, they must set up a
monument, on which they must write the words of this law. They must
set up an altar. The word and prayer must go together. Though they
m...
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WHOLE STONES; i.e. not hewed or polished....
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"And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. And it shall
be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which...
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Deuteronomy 27:6 build H1129 (H8799) whole H8003 stones H68 altar
H4196 LORD H3068 God H430 offer H5927 ...
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_ e-Sword Note: _
For the section, "Deuteronoomy 27 Paraellels Exodus 24 ", see the
chapter comments.
For the section, "Shechem Was To Be The First ‘Place (Maqom) Which
Yahweh Shall Choose', " see t...
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CONTENTS: The blessing and cursing from Mt. Ebal and Gerizim.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: We are all compelled to say Amen to the law of God, owning
ourselves justly under its curse and that...
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Deuteronomy 27:2. _Great stones,_ thought to be twelve in each pillar;
they wrote the curses on the one pillar, and the blessings on the
other.
Deuteronomy 27:3. _Thou shalt write upon them all the wo...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—Connect this chapter with Deuteronomy 27:16 of
preceding one, where Moses concludes discourse on plains of Moab. Here
he dwells on sanctions of the law and sets forth in striking detai...
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PART III.—THIRD DISCOURSE OF MOSES. THE COVENANT RENEWED. CHAPTERS
27-30.
EXPOSITION
Deuteronomy 27:1. INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE PU
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In chapter twenty-seven, when you come into the land you are to take
these stones and you are to build a tower and you are to plaster it.
And then you are to write on the plaster of the tower the word...
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Ephesians 5:2; Leviticus 1:1...
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Whole stones — Rough, not hewed or polished. By the law written on
the stones, God spake to them: by the altar and sacrifices upon it,
they spake to God: and thus was communion kept up between them an...