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Verse Deuteronomy 27:12. _THESE SHALL STAND UPON MOUNT GERIZIM TO
BLESS THE_ _PEOPLE_] Instead of _upon Mount_, c., we may translate
_by_, as the particle על _al_ is sometimes used for we do not find...
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Compare Joshua 8:32. The solemnity was apparently designed only for
the single occasion on which it actually took place.
Deuteronomy 27:12, Deuteronomy 27:13...
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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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SIMEON. For order of tribes see App-45....
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Appointment of Tribes to Bless and to Curse
Ch. Deuteronomy 11:29 (_q.v._) commands that the blessing for
obedience be set on Mt Gerizim, the curse for disobedience on Mt
-Ebal. _Set_(lit. _give_) im...
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_VER._ 12. _UPON MOUNT GERIZZIM_— _By mount Gerizzim._ To _bless the
people,_ that is, by saying _Amen_ when they heard the blessings
pronounced by the priests. See ver. 14, 15. The priests seem clear...
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THOUGHT QUESTIONS 27:11-14
471.
Why the choice of the tribes to bless?
472.
What impression was this whole ceremony to make upon Israel?
AMPLIFIED TRANSLATION 27:11-14
11 And Moses charged the pe...
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_THESE SHALL STAND UPON MOUNT GERIZIM TO BLESS THE PEOPLE, WHEN YE ARE
COME OVER JORDAN; SIMEON, AND LEVI, AND JUDAH, AND ISSACHAR, AND
JOSEPH, AND BENJAMIN:_
These shall stand upon mount Gerizim ......
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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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TO BLESS] The words of the blessings are not given but may be inferred
from the nature of the curses: cp. Deuteronomy 11:26....
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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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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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These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are
come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and (f)
Joseph, and Benjamin:
(f) Meaning, Ephraim and Manasseh....
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Garizim. The children of Jacob, by Lia and Rachel, have the more
honourable function of blessing, while those of the handmaids, with
Ruben and Zabulon, the first and the sons of Lia, at their head, on...
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The Mount Ebal, and the Mount Gerizzim, stood near each other, a
valley being between them. It is worthy remark, that in the Gospel
state, when JESUS went up into the mountain, it was only to bless hi...
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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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_EBAL AND GERIZIM_
‘Gerizim to bless … Ebal to curse.’
Deuteronomy 27:12
I. OUR REDEMPTION IS BY AN ACT OF GOD’S MIGHTY GRACE AND
STRENGTH.—We cannot add to it or detract from it, we must simply
ac...
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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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THESE SHALL STAND UPON MOUNT GERIZIM TO BLESS THE PEOPLE,
WIDEN YE ARE COME OVER JORDAN,.... Which was a mountain in Samaria
opposite to Mount Ebal, a valley of a furlong broad lay between them
y; an...
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_Upon mount Gerizim_ The original words may be rendered _beside_ or
_near to mount Gerizim._ There were in Canaan two mountains that lay
near together, with a valley between, the one called Gerizim, t...
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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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These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim, the mountain just south of Mount
Ebal, separated from it by a narrow valley, TO BLESS THE PEOPLE, WHEN
YE ARE COME OVER JORDAN: SIMEON, AND LEVI, AND JUDAH, AND I...
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THE CURSE PRONOUNCED FROM MOUNT EBAL...
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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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11-26 The six tribes appointed for blessing, were all children of the
free women, for to such the promise belongs, Galatians 4:31. Levi is
here among the rest. Ministers should apply to themselves th...
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OBJECT. In JOSHUA 8:33, they stood _over against Mount Gerizim_. ANSW.
1. Both are true; they who stood upon the one mount, stood over
against the other.
2. These words may be rendered _beside_ or _n...
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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 27:12 stand H5975 (H8799) Mount H2022 Gerizim H1630 bless
H1288 (H8763) people H5971 over H5674
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MOSES DESCRIBES HOW THE COVENANT CEREMONY WILL PROCEED ONCE THEY HAVE
REACHED SHECHEM (DEUTERONOMY 27:11).
On that same day as he had spoken all the words from Deuteronomy 5:1
onwards and given instru...
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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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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 27:1 Moses’ Third Speech:
Blessings and Curses. Ancient covenant treaties included blessings for
keeping the treaty conditions and curses for not keeping them (see
char...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 27:12 MOUNT GERIZIM is south of
Shechem. Shechem is on the shoulder of the two mountains, Gerizim and
EBAL (see...
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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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Deuteronomy 11:26; Genesis 29:33; Genesis 30:18; Genesis 30:24;...
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Upon mount Gerizzim — These words may be rendered beside or near to
mount Gerizzim. There were in Canaan two mountains that lay near
together, with a valley between, one called Gerizzim, the other Eba...