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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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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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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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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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וְ אֵ֛לֶּה יַֽעַמְד֥וּ עַל ־הַ
קְּלָלָ֖ה בְּ
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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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And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to (g) curse; Reuben, Gad, and
Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
(g) Signifying, that if they would not obey God out of love, they
would be made to obey out...
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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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AND THESE SHALL STAND UPON MOUNT EBAL CURSE,.... Which was dry and
rocky, barren and fruitful, and like the earth, that bears briers and
thorns, is rejected and nigh unto cursing, and so a proper plac...
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_To curse_ Of the former tribes, it is said, they stood to bless the
people: of these, that they stood to curse. Perhaps the different way
of speaking intimates, that Israel in general were a happy pe...
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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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and these shall stand upon Mount Ebal to curse, to pronounce the curse
upon the transgressors: REUBEN, GAD, AND ASHER, AND ZEBULUN, DAN, AND
NAPHTALI, the sons of the handmaids and those less highly e...
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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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TO CURSE:
_ Heb._ for a cursing...
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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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TO CURSE; he saith to bless the people, DEUTERONOMY 27:12, but here
only _to curse_, not expressing whom, either because he was loth to
mention the people as objects of the curse; or because he presum...
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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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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 11:29; Deuteronomy 27:4; Genesis 29:32; Genesis 30:20;...
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To curse — Of the former tribes, 'tis said, they stood to bless the
people: of these, that they stood to curse. Perhaps the different way
of speaking intimates, That Israel in general were an happy pe...