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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 10:14

The heaven The aerial and starry heaven. The heaven of heavens The highest, or third heaven, thus named for its eminence. All that therein is All creatures and all men, which being all his, he might have chosen what nation he pleased to be his people.

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See also Deuteronomy 10:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 10:14. _BEHOLD, THE HEAVEN AND THE HEAVEN OF HEAVENS_] All these words in the original are in the plural number: הן השמים ושמי השמים _hen hashshamayim, ushemey hashshamayim; behold...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    6. JEHOVAH'S LOVE AND HIS REQUIREMENTS OF HIS PEOPLE CHAPTER 10:12-22 _ 1. Jehovah's delight and love (Deuteronomy 10:12)_ 2. Admonition to fear and serve Jehovah (Deuteronomy 10:16) This section i...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DEUTERONOMY 10:12 TO DEUTERONOMY 11:32. Resumes Moses'second address interrupted by the long didactic narrative of Deuteronomy 9:7_ b_ -...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. HEAVEN OF HEAVENS. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6. = the highest heavens....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This and the next _v_. state motives for the _fear_and _love_just enjoined: for _fear_, because He is the greatest God, to whom all things belong; for _love_because, though He is such, He yet loved Is...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 202 THE ELECTING LOVE OF GOD AN INCENTIVE TO HOLINESS Deuteronomy 10:14. Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. Only t...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 14. _BEHOLD, THE HEAVEN, AND THE HEAVEN OF HEAVENS_— As much as to say, "The whole universe is his: all people are under his government. If he has chosen you, it is the pure effect of his grace...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (2) BY AN ABIDING LOVE (Deuteronomy 10:12 to Deuteronomy 11:1) 12 And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND I STAYED IN THE MOUNT, ACCORDING TO THE FIRST TIME, FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS; AND THE LORD HEARKENED UNTO ME AT THAT TIME ALSO, AND THE LORD WOULD NOT DESTROY THEE._ Moses here resumes his ad...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONTINUED) 1-5. The renewal of the broken covenant: see Exodus 34. 6-9. These vv are evidently a parenthesis. The death of Aaron took place thirty-eight years after the depar...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 10 V1 ‘Then the *LORD spoke to me. “Cut two blocks from stone like the first ones. Also, make a...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵ֚ן לַ יהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ הַ שָּׁמַ֖יִם וּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WHAT THE LORD REQUIRES OF US Deuteronomy 10:1 The second writing of the Law reminds us of the work wrought in us by the Holy Spirit. When first we hear the Law, we are condemned; but when we have rep...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In recounting the story of the writing of the Law the second time, Moses distinctly affirmed that these tables too were written by God Himself. This was the culminating word in all he had said to them...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Of heaven. The Scripture mentions the third heaven, (2 Corinthians xii. 2,) where the majesty of God most gloriously appears. The second is the region of the stars, and the first the atmosphere, wher...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It is very precious to trace all mercies to their source. The infinite greatness of GOD, and the infinite littleness of man, are in these verses most suitably brought together, by way of demonstrating...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14._Behold the heaven. _He again enforces upon them the grace, on account of which we have seen that the people were under obligation to God; because this was the most effectual observation for moving...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, THE HEAVEN, AND THE HEAVEN OF HEAVENS, ARE THE LORD'S THY GOD,.... Made and possessed by him; the airy and starry heaven, the third heaven, which is the heaven of heavens, the seat of the divi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens [is] the LORD'S thy God, the earth [also], with all that therein [is]. Ver. 14. _Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens._] Not the air and sky only,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Gods mercie in restoring the two Tables, 6 in continuing the Priesthood, 8 in separating the tribe of Leui, 10 in hearkening vnto Moses his suit for the people. 12.An exhortation vnto obedience....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens, the highest heaven with all its glory, IS THE LORD'S, THY GOD, THE EARTH ALSO, WITH ALL THAT THERE IN ISAIAH Such is the majesty, the exaltation, of the m...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WHAT THE FEAR OF GOD DEMANDS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SECOND GIVING OF THE LAW (vs.1-11) While Moses had spoken of events later than the giving of the law insist on the moral lessons of Israel's disobedience through the wilderness (ch.9:22-23), he r...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-22 We are here taught our duty to God in our principles and our practices. We must fear the Lord our God. We must love him, and delight in communion with him. We must walk in the ways in which he...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE HEAVEN; the airy and starry heaven. THE HEAVEN OF HEAVENS; the highest or third heaven, 1 KINGS 8:27 2 CORINTHIANS 12:2, called _the heaven of heavens_ for its eminency, as _the song of songs_, _k...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood: and I will write on the tables the words that w...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 10:14 heaven H8064 highest H8064 heavens H8064 LORD H3068 God H430 earth H776 the heaven -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    WHAT GOD IS AND WHY HE HAS CHOSEN THEM (DEUTERONOMY 10:14). Deuteronomy 10:14 ‘ Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is in it.' For it was n...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Further warnings and exhortation and reminders of God's dealings. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Eleazar. CONCLUSION: Since we have received so many mercies from God, it becomes us to enqu...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 10:6. _Mosera: there Aaron died._ In Numbers 20:28; Numbers 33:38, we read that Aaron died in mount Hor, which was seven days' journey from Moseroth. This place is full of difficulties. Wh...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He chose. .. you above all people._ ELECTION AND HOLINESS I. In setting forth election, I must have you observe, first of all, its extraordinary singularity. God has chosen to Himself a people whom...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 10:14 SET HIS HEART IN LOVE ON YOUR FATHERS. See Deuteronomy 4:37 and...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Deuteronomy 10:1. That time. The order for the ark was given before the apostasy of the people, _cf_. Exodus 25, and the tables were put into it after the dedication of the tabernacle...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION RENEWED EXHORTATIONS TO OBEDIENCE. DEUTERONOMY 10:1 _Moses_'_ intercession and its results_. DEUTERONOMY 10:1 At that time.

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter ten He continues of their failures during the wilderness experiences. And he's reminding them of the failure at the time when God had given to him the law on the two tables of stone. And ho...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:26; 1 Corinthians 10:28; 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 6:18;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The heaven — The airy and starry heaven. The heaven of heavens — The highest or third heaven, called the heaven of heavens for its eminency. All that therein is — With all creatures and all men, which...

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