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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 27:6

Whole stones Rough, not hewn, nor polished, whereby all manner of imagery was avoided. Shalt offer burnt-offerings thereon In order to ratify their covenant with God, as they did at Horeb. By the law written on the stones God spake to them; by the altar and sacrifices upon it they spake to God, and thus was communion kept up between them and God.

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See also Deuteronomy 27:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _unhewn stones_ See R.V. margin. Exodus 20:25: _thou shalt not build it of hewn stones_. _burnt offerings_ Heb. _-olôth_; see on Deuteronomy 12:6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Cp. E, Exodus 20:24 f. with Driver's notes....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LESSON TWENTY-ONE DEUTERONOMY 27:1 TO DEUTERONOMY 28:68 III. THE THIRD DISCOURSE Future of Israel Foretold (Deuteronomy 27:1 to...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THERE SHALT THOU BUILD AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD THY GOD, AN ALTAR OF STONES: THOU SHALT NOT LIFT UP ANY IRON TOOL UPON THEM._ There shalt thou build an altar ... of whole stones. The stones were t...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BURNT OFFERINGS. — The idea of these is the dedication of man’s life to God....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֲבָנִ֤ים שְׁלֵמֹות֙ תִּבְנֶ֔ה אֶת ־מִזְבַּ֖ח יְהוָ֣ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Polished. Hebrew simply, "of whole stones."_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I beg the Reader not to overlook the plainness to be observed in the building of this altar: nothing of human art or labour was to be joined with it, nor any human tool to pollute it. And as CHRIST is...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU SHALL BUILD THE ALTAR OF THE LORD THY GOD OF WHOLE STONES,.... And of such Joshua did build it, Joshua 8:31; AND THOU SHALT OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS THEREON UNTO THE LORD THY GOD; and very likely s...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou shalt build the altar of the Lord, thy God, of whole stones; and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord, thy God, as expressing the entire and undivided devotion of Israel to Jeho...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE STONE MONUMENT...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHOLE STONES; i.e. not hewed or polished....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 27:6 build H1129 (H8799) whole H8003 stones H68 altar H4196 LORD H3068 God H430 offer H5927 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    _ 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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 27:6 BURNT OFFERINGS were the basic sacrifices dealing with sin (Leviticus 1:1). After sins are atoned for,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    PART III.—THIRD DISCOURSE OF MOSES. THE COVENANT RENEWED. CHAPTERS 27-30. EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 27:1. INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE PU

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ephesians 5:2; Leviticus 1:1...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Whole stones — Rough, not hewed or polished. By the law written on the stones, God spake to them: by the altar and sacrifices upon it, they spake to God: and thus was communion kept up between them an...

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