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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 30:19

Choose life They shall have life that choose it: they that choose the favour of God, and communion with him, shall have what they choose. They that come short of life and happiness, must thank themselves only. They would have had them, if they had chosen them, when they were put to their choice: but they die, because they will die.

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See also Deuteronomy 30:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 30:19. See the note on the preceding verse. See Clarke on De 30:15...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Ignorance of the requirements of the law cannot be pleaded Deuteronomy 30:10; hence, Deuteronomy 30:15 life and death, good and evil, are solemnly set before the people for their own choice; and an ea...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    26. THE DISPERSION, THE RETURN AND THE FINAL APPEAL CHAPTER 30 _ 1. The message of hope (Deuteronomy 30:1)_ 2. The final appeal (Deuteronomy 30:11) These things, which Moses spoke into the ears of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DEUTERONOMY 30:11 was probably intended to close Dt. Deuteronomy 30:11 is applied and adapted by Paul in Romans 6-8. Prefix to Deuteronomy 30:16 the following words found in the LXX and

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I CALL. Figure of speech _Deasis,_ or, _Obtestatio._ App-6. HEAVEN AND EARTH. the heavens and the earth. One of thirteen occurrences. See note on Deuteronomy 4:26. TO RECORD. to witness....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Close of the Concluding Addresses The commandment is not too hard nor distant, but near, articulate, intelligible and practicable (Deuteronomy 30:11-14). Sheer life and death, good and evil, is s...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Peroration to the Discourses 15. Cp. Jeremiah 21:8. _set before thee this day_ Deuteronomy 4:8. _life and good_, etc.] Cp. Deuteronomy 11:26: _blessing and curse_. For death and e

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _I call heaven and earth_, etc.] As in Deuteronomy 4:26. _set before thee life and death_ See on Deuteronomy 30:15. _choose life_ In Deut. only here; but cp. Joshua 24:15;...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 227 A FAITHFUL MINISTER’S APPEAL Deuteronomy 30:19. _I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I hare set before you life and death, blessing and cursing! therefore choo...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 19. _I CALL HEAVEN AND EARTH TO RECORD_— See chap. Deuteronomy 4:26 Deuteronomy 32:1. REFLECTIONS.—Warm and urgent when such important concerns were at stake, he seeks to fix some abiding impre...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    5. FINAL ENCOURAGEMENT TO CHOOSE THE PATH OF BLESSING RATHER THAN THE CURSE (Deuteronomy 30:15-20) 15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 in that I command thee...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _SEE, I HAVE SET BEFORE THEE THIS DAY LIFE AND GOOD, AND DEATH AND EVIL;_ See, I have set before thee this day life ... and death - i:e., the alternative of a good and happy, or a disobedient and mis...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PROMISES AND APPEALS A promise of restoration, even after abandonment and rejection, is held out, on condition of repentance; and an appeal is made to the people to choos the way of obedience and lif...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 30 V1 ‘All these *blessings and *curses, that I have told you about, will happen to you. You wi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַעִידֹ֨תִי בָכֶ֣ם הַ יֹּום֮ אֶת ־הַ שָּׁמַ֣י

  • 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

    THE SUPREME CHOICE Deuteronomy 30:11 The immediate purpose of this passage is to encourage the people by reminding them that all things needful for a holy life are within their reach. Paul refers to...

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

    Continuing his discourse, Moses uttered words thrilling at first with tenderness and urgent appeal. In the first ten verses of the chapter we have the long look ahead of love. He seems to have seen t...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore (o) choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: (o) That is...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _I call. He begins his canticle in the same emphatical manner, (chap. xxii.) as Isaias does his prophecy. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! while you and I attend to the close of Moses' Sermon, and hear the solemn appeal which the animated preacher makes to heaven, that he had executed his commission, and fully discharged his duty...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE WISE CHOICE_ ‘Therefore choose life.’ Deuteronomy 30:19 There is one choice which we must all make; and if that choice is once well made, it will very much secure all other choices, for the re...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    19._I call heaven and earth to record this day against you_. Though the verb is in the past tense, it indicates a present act. It is in order to deal with them with greater urgency that he calls heave...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We must now dwell a little on this last point. Chapter 30 furnishes us with an important principle. It supposes that the people have already incurred the consequences of disobedience, and they are see...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I CALL HEAVEN AND EARTH TO RECORD THIS DAY AGAINST YOU,.... Either, literally understood, the heavens above him, and the earth on which he stood, those inanimate bodies, which are frequently called up...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: Ver. 19. _Life...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Great mercies promised vnto the repentant. 11 The Commaundement is manifest. 15 Death and life are set before them. 1 AND it shall come to passe when all these things are come vpon thee, the bles...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I call heaven and earth, with the inhabitants of both these spheres, TO RECORD THIS DAY AGAINST YOU, THAT I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU LIFE AND DEATH, BLESSING AND CURSING; THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE, THAT BOTH T...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    DEATH AND LIFE SET BEFORE ISRAEL...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S GRACE TO THOSE WHO RETURN (vs.1-10) There are some (even Christians) who insist that Israel has departed so far from God that they can never be restored. But they must ignore chapter 30:1-10, a...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-20 What could be said more moving, and more likely to make deep and lasting impressions? Every man wishes to obtain life and good, and to escape death and evil; he desires happiness, and dreads mi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Compare DEUTERONOMY 4:26 JOSHUA 24:27 PSALMS 1:4 ISAIAH 1:2....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    This chapter is one of very deep interest and importance. It is prophetic, and presents to us some of "the secret things" referred to at the close of the Preceding chapter. It unfolds some of those mo...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 30:19 call H5749 heaven H8064 earth H776 witnesses H5749 (H8689) today H3117 set H5414 (H8804)

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CHOICE IS PUT TO THEM BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH (DEUTERONOMY 30:15). Analysis using the words of Moses: a See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil, in that I command you...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Deuteronomy 30:19 I. "I call heaven and earth to record against you," says Moses. This was no idle rhetorical formula. The open sky over his head was the witness and pledge of permanence, the sign tha...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Deuteronomy 30:19 There is one choice which we must all make; and if that choice is once well made, it will very much secure all other choices, for the reason why we so often choose badly is because...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The Palestinian covenant declared. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Those shall have life who choose it. Those who come short of life and happiness must thank themselves. They would hav...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 30:5. _The Lord thy God will bring thee into the land,_ when thou art penitent, by the marvellous munificence of Darius, and of Cyrus his nephew. What a luminous vision of future things! T...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil._ LIFE AND GOOD, DEATH AND EVIL 1. The matter propounded. Life as the end, good as the means leading to life; or else, life, that i...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 30:19 To CHOOSE LIFE is to choose God himself. It is to trust in God’s grace and the changes he makes in a person’s heart. HOLDING FAST. See...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—Israel were rejected and exiled on account of apostacy, but not absolutely east off for ever. If they would return to the Lord he would turn his favour towards them again, and gather t...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION DEUTERONOMY 30:1 Though rejected and exiled because of rebellion and apostasy, Israel should not be absolutely or forever cast off. When dispersed among the nations, if the people should r...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 30. It shall come to pass when all these things are come upon thee the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and you call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Timothy 5:21; Acts 2:39; Deuteronomy 31:28; Deuteronomy 32:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Chuse life — They shall have life that chuse it: they that chuse the favour of God, and communion with him, shall have what they chuse. They that come short of life and happiness, must thank themselve...

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