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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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SPEAK, AND SAY. Note idiom, usually rendered in New Testament "answer
and say". The first verb is to be rendered according to the context.
Here. "curse and say"....
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Appointment of the Levites to Curse
According to 11 13 both a blessing and a curse were to be pronounced,
here we have only curses, twelve in number. There _Levi_was one of six
tribes appointed to bl...
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_answer_ As in Deuteronomy 21:7, _solemnly pronounce_.
_with a loud voice_ Lit. a _high voice_, not elsewhere in the O.T. Cp.
Deuteronomy 5:19, _a great voice_....
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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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_AND THE LEVITES SHALL SPEAK, AND SAY UNTO ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL WITH
A LOUD VOICE,_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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 עָנ֣וּ הַ לְוִיִּ֗ם וְ אָֽמְר֛וּ
אֶל
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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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_Pronounce. Hebrew, "answer," as the older Protestant editions, 1540,
&c., had it; though "our last translators, 1613, says Kennicott, in
this, as in several other instances, altered for the worse," s...
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Probably from the number of Israel, many Levites was engaged in this
service....
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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 THE LEVITES SHALL SPEAK, AND SAY UNTO ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL,....
Rather, "answer e and say"; not the whole tribe of Levi, for that
stood on Mount Gerizim to bless, Deuteronomy 27:12; but the pries...
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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 CURSE PRONOUNCED FROM MOUNT EBAL...
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And the Levites shall speak, the Levitical priests, the duty of whose
position it was, AND SAY UNTO ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL, assembled on the
two mountains, WITH A LOUD VOICE,...
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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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THE LEVITES, i.e. some of the Levites, to wit, the priests, WHICH BARE
THE ARK, as it is expressed, JOSHUA 8:33, for the body of the Levites
stood upon Mount Gerizim, DEUTERONOMY 27:12; but these stoo...
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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 27:14 Levites H3881 speak H6030 (H8804) loud H7311 (H8802)
voice H6963 say H559 ...
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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 27:14 LEVITES must refer to the
Levitical priests, since the rest of the tribe of Levi are on Mount
Gerizim (see v. Deuteronom
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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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Daniel 9:11; Deuteronomy 33:10; Deuteronomy 33:9; Joshua 8:33; Ma
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The Levites — Some of the Levites, namely, the priests, who bare the
ark, as it is expressed Joshua 8:33, for the body of the Levites stood
upon mount Gerizzim, Deuteronomy 27:12. But these stood in t...