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Verse Deuteronomy 27:2. _THOU SHALT SET THEE UP GREAT STONES_] How
many is not specified, possibly _twelve_, and possibly only a
sufficient number to make a surface large enough to write the
blessings...
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The stones here named are not those of which the altar Deuteronomy
27:5 was to be built, but are to serve as a separate monument
witnessing to the fact that the people took possession of the land by
v...
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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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ON THE DAY. in the day, or, when. See App-18.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.
STONES: i.e. rough and unhewn. Compare Exodus 20:25.
PLAISTER. gypsum.. hard white c...
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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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_on the day_ ON WHICH _ye shall pass over Jordan_ The Heb. idiom (cp.
2 Samuel 19:20; Esther 9:1) implies the very day on which they were
crossing, and not (vaguely) the time when they crossed; and th...
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_VER._ 2. _ON THE DAY WHEN YE SHALL PASS OVER JORDAN_— _Day_ here,
as well as in the former verse, signifies _time._ See Joshua 8:30. It
is not said how many _great stones_ they were to set up; neithe...
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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 IT SHALL BE ON THE DAY WHEN YE SHALL PASS OVER JORDAN UNTO THE
LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE, THAT THOU SHALT SET THEE UP
GREAT STONES, AND PLAISTER THEM WITH PLAISTER:_
It shall be on...
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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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XXVII.
THE LAW TO BE ESTABLISHED IN CANAAN AS THE LAW OF THE LAND.
(1) MOSES WITH THE ELDERS. — Here joined in exhortation for the
first time in this book.
KEEP. — Literally, _to keep._ Possibly we...
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וְ הָיָ֗ה בַּ † יֹּום֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר
תַּעַבְר֣וּ...
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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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Stones. The Latin translation of the Samaritan copy, defines the
number to be two, (Exodus xx. 18,) and shews that the law, which was
to be written upon them, was no other than the decalogue, to which...
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If the Reader will recollect, similar methods of perpetuating the law
of GOD, were observed after the delivery on Mount Sinai. Exodus 24:4....
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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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AND IT SHALL BE, ON THE DAY WHEN YOU SHALL PASS OVER JORDAN,.... Not
the precise day exactly, but about that time, a little after they
passed that river, as soon as they conveniently could; for it was...
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And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up
great stones, and plaister them with plaister:
Ver. 2. _And pla...
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_On the day_ Here it is evident the word _day_ does not signify
precisely the very same day they passed over, but some indefinite time
after, namely, as soon as they were come to mount Ebal, (Deuteron...
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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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THE STONE MONUMENT...
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And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the
land which the Lord, thy God, giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up
great stones, and plaster them with plaster, to prepare them f...
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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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ON THAT DAY, i.e. about that time, for it was not done till some days
after their passing over. DAY is oft put for _time_, as hath been
noted before. PLAISTER THEM WITH PLAISTER, for conveniency of wr...
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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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_ 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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_That thou shalt set up great stones._
MEMORIAL PILLARS
On the boundary line between European and Siberian Russia there is a
square pillar of brick bearing on one side the coat-of-arms belonging
to t...
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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 27:2 ON THE DAY. Not necessarily the
precise day but simply “when.” PLASTER THEM WITH PLASTER. White
plaster provides a backdrop for the writing. writ
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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 11:31; Deuteronomy 6:1; Deuteronomy 9:1; Deuteronomy 26:1;...
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On that day — About that time, for it was not done 'till some days
after their passing over....