Deuteronomy 31:1-30
FAREWELL EXHORTATIONS OF MOSES TO THE PEOPLE AND JOSHUA. HE DELIVERS THE LAW TO THE PRIESTS. THE ASSEMBLING OF THE CONGREGATION 1. These words] i.e. the following words.... [ Continue Reading ]
FAREWELL EXHORTATIONS OF MOSES TO THE PEOPLE AND JOSHUA. HE DELIVERS THE LAW TO THE PRIESTS. THE ASSEMBLING OF THE CONGREGATION 1. These words] i.e. the following words.... [ Continue Reading ]
GO OUT AND COME IN] i.e. perform the office of a leader: see on Numbers 27:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
Jehovah is the real Leader of the hosts of Israel: Joshua is the human instrument: cp. Numbers 23:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS LAW] i.e. the Deuteronomio law, especially that contained in Deuteronomy 12-26 : see intro. to Deuteronomy 12.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Feast of Tabernacles was at the beginning of the year of release: see on Leviticus 23:23, and cp. Leviticus 25:9. On the reading of the law at this season see e.g. Nehemiah 8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Numbers 27:12 and notes.... [ Continue Reading ]
GO A WHORING] see on Exodus 34:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
A WITNESS FOR ME] When the threatened punishment had fallen, the song would remain to testify that God, who foresaw their apostasy, had warned them against it: see Deuteronomy 31:21. The song would also be a means of bringing them to repentance.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE SIDE OF] i.e. beside. The tables with the Ten Commandments were kept in the ark: see on Exodus 16:34.... [ Continue Reading ]