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ISRAEL'S RESPONSIBILITY, THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE
CHAPTER 11
_ 1. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God (Deuteronomy 11:1)_
2. If ye hearken unto my commandments (Deuteronomy 11:10)
3. The b...
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DEUTERONOMY 11. Continues the exhortation to love and obey Yahweh,
giving motives and promises and pointing out the consequence of
disobedience.
Deuteronomy 11:2. Read (adding one Heb. consonant), for...
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One of the _Phylacteries._ See note on Deuteronomy 6:4....
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SHUT UP. The power of the Creator thus manifested. Compare 1 Kings
8:35.James 5:17.
LAND. ground. Hebrew. _adamah_....
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The enjoyment of so much blessing in the land suggests, as usual (cp.
Deuteronomy 6:14 f., Deuteronomy 8:19 f.), a warning against being
deceived into attributing it to other gods, i.e. the Baalim, al...
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Deuteronomy 10:12 to Deuteronomy 11:32. Final Exhortations,
Introductory to the Laws
Enforced by the preceding Retrospect, the discourse continues to urge
its practical conclusions of full fear and l...
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(3) BY A CONSTANT REFRESHING OF MEMORY (Deuteronomy 11:2-25)
2 And know ye this day: for I _speak_ not with your children that have
not known, and that have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your
G...
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_TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES, THAT YOUR HEART BE NOT DECEIVED, AND YE TURN
ASIDE, AND SERVE OTHER GODS, AND WORSHIP THEM;_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONCLUDED)
Some injunctions to obedience, with the blessing it entails, and the
curse that follows disobedience....
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 11
V1 ‘Therefore, love the *LORD your God. Always *keep his
instructions, his rules and his *co...
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וְ חָרָ֨ה אַף ־יְהוָ֜ה בָּכֶ֗ם וְ
עָצַ֤ר
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ISRAEL'S ELECTION, AND MOTIVES FOR FAITHFULNESS
Deuteronomy 9:1; Deuteronomy 10:1; Deuteronomy 11:1
THE remaining Chapter s of this special introduction to the statement
of the actual laws beginni
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THE REWARDS OF OBEDIENCE
Deuteronomy 11:1
In this chapter the introductory portion of this book closes, and two
final arguments are brought to bear on the chosen people, to induce
them to love God an...
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As Moses concluded his great call to the people to the pathway of
obedience, he reminded them what varied experiences they had had from
which they knew the nature of the government and power of God....
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_You. In all this discourse, Moses attributes the fertility of the
promised land to the blessing of God, and indeed it seems to be
naturally far from being so luxuriant as to be able to feed so many
i...
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GOD'S withholding the influences of his SPIRIT, is here figuratively
set forth. See a proof of this: Amos 4:7....
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In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be
called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of
institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8, 9, 10, AND 11.
In chapter 8, in the most instructive and touching language as to the
care God had taken of them, while keeping them in dependence, and His...
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AND THEN THE LORD'S WRATH BE KINDLED AGAINST YOU,.... For their
idolatry, nothing being more provoking to him than that, it being
contrary to his nature and being, as well as to his will, and to his
h...
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And [then] the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the
heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit;
and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which t...
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_That your heart be not deceived_ By the specious pretence of
idolaters, persuading you that they enjoy fruitful seasons, and other
temporal blessings, as a reward for their worship. _And he shut up t...
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1 An exhortation to obedience,
2 by their owne experience of Gods great works,
8 by promise of Gods great blessings,
16 and by threatnings.
18 A carefull study is required in Gods words.
26 The b...
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and then the Lord's wrath be kindled against you, and He shut up the
heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit,
and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the L...
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THE EXCELLENCIES OF THE LAND OF PROMISE...
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SOWING AND REAPING
(vs.1-32)
This chapter emphasizes the results of obedience in contrast to the
consequences of disobedience. It begins with the commandment to love
the Lord their God, which of cour...
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8-17 Moses sets before them, for the future, life and death, the
blessing and the curse, according as they did or did not keep God's
commandment. Sin tends to shorten the days of all men, and to shor...
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Heaven is compared sometimes to a bottle, JOB 38:37, which may be
either stopped or opened; sometimes to a great storehouse, wherein God
lays up his treasures of rain, JOB 38:22 PSALMS 33:7, the doors...
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"Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and
his statutes, and his judgements, and his commandments, alway. And
know ye this day; for I speak not with your children which have...
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THEIR BLESSING AND FRUITFULNESS WILL DEPEND ON WHOM THEY SERVE
(DEUTERONOMY 11:13 A).
Analysis in the words of Moses:
a If you will listen diligently to my commandments which I command you
this day,...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and exhortations to obedience.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: The closer dependence we have had on God, the more
cheerful should be our obedience to Him. In absolute obedienc...
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Deuteronomy 11:10. _Water it with thy foot._ Egypt was watered
periodically by the overflowing of the Nile; and the husbandman,
following the retiring waters, sowed his seed. When the droughty
season...
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_Take heed. .. that your heart be not deceived._
RELIGION NO HUMBUG
I. Let us not be deceived in our ideas about God.
1. Let us not be deceived in thinking that our heavenly Father is
partly good a...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 11:16 TAKE CARE LEST YOUR HEART BE
DECEIVED, AND YOU... SERVE OTHER GODS. In light of vv....
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CRITICAL NOTES.— Deuteronomy 11:1 develops more fully the other
features of Divine Requirements, Deuteronomy 10:12. Love must be seen
in perpetual observance of commands. _Keep_, Leviticus 8:35;...
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EXPOSITION
Moses here renews his exhortation to obedience, enforced by regard to
their experience of God's dealings with them in Egypt and in the
wilderness, and by consideration of God's promises an...
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In chapter eleven he continues his warnings to them, as they are about
to come into the land. And he reminds them again of the miracles that
God did for them in bringing them out of Egypt. How He spoi...
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1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 8:35; 2 Chronicles 6:26; 2 Chronicles 7:13;...
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Shut up the heaven — Which is compared sometimes to a great store
— house wherein God lays up his treasures of rain, Job 38:22, the
doors whereof God is said to open when he gives rain, and to shut wh...