Deuteronomy 27:1
AND MOSES. This is the beginning of the fifth address. See note on Deuteronomy 1:1. THIS DAY. See note on Deuteronomy 4:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MOSES. This is the beginning of the fifth address. See note on Deuteronomy 1:1. THIS DAY. See note on Deuteronomy 4:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 cement.... [ Continue Reading ]
WRITE. See note on Exodus 17:14. Compare Joshua 8:30. THIS LAW: i.e. which follows, viz. the blessings and curses. AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN MOUNT EBAL. The stones, therefore, carried thither from Jordan. EBAL. heaps.... [ Continue Reading ]
IRON. Probably. technical name for. chisel, as we now associate it with. laundry or. prison.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERY PLAINLY.. useful hint for us. plainly and well.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE HEED. keep silence, or, take note.... [ Continue Reading ]
COMMANDMENTS. In Hebrew text written singular, but read plural, as here.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIMEON. For order of tribes see App-45.... [ Continue Reading ]
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".... [ Continue Reading ]
CURSED. Figure of speech _An_ aphor _a_. See App-6. "Cursed" twelve times. ANY GRAVEN. a sculpture. Compare Deuteronomy 4:23.Leviticus 19:4. AMEN. Note the Figure of speech _Epistrophe_ (see App-6), each clause ending with the same word "Amen. ... [ Continue Reading ]
SETTETH LIGHT. Compare Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 19:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
REMOVETH. Compare Deuteronomy 19:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BLIND. Compare Leviticus 19:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRANGER. foreigner. These three put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species) for all kinds of afflicted. Compare Deuteronomy 24:17; Exodus 22:21; Exodus 22:22.Jeremiah 22:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIETH. Compare Deuteronomy 22:30; Leviticus 18:8; Leviticus 20:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEAST. Compare Exodus 22:19; Leviticus 18:23; Leviticus 20:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS SISTER. Compare Leviticus 18:9; Leviticus 20:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOTHER IN LAW. Compare Leviticus 18:17; Leviticus 20:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
SMITETH. Compare Exodus 21:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
REWARD. bribe. Compare Deuteronomy 10:17; Deuteronomy 16:19; Exodus 23:7; Exodus 23:8; Psalms 15:5. PERSON. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONFIRMETH NOT. Compare Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 28:15.Jeremiah 11:3.Galatians 1:3; Galatians 1:10. ALL. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, have this "all" in the text.... [ Continue Reading ]