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Compare with these verses Leviticus 26:33, and Deuteronomy 28:64 ff....
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3. HEARKEN, O ISRAEL!
CHAPTER 4
_ 1. Obedience demanded (Deuteronomy 4:1)_
2. The covenant to be observed (Deuteronomy 4:9)
3. Take heed unto yourselves lest ye forget (Deuteronomy 4:15
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SECOND PART OF MOSES-' FIRST ADDRESS. This contains exhortations to
obedience from motives of self-interest and of gratitude to Yahweh,
and forms an apparent logical unity with Deuteronomy 1:6 to
Deut...
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_When thou shalt beget … and ye shall have been_ Read, _ye shall
beget_. The sentence illustrates the difficulties raised by the
variant forms of address. So quick a change from Sg. to Pl., confirmed...
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Threat of Exile with Promise of Grace on Repentance
If, with the slackness of increasing years, Israel give way to
idolatry (Deuteronomy 4:25) Moses testifies that they shall perish
from the land (De...
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I MUST NOT GO OVER THE JORDAN (Deuteronomy 4:22)See under Deuteronomy
1:37.
c. PUNISHMENT FOR IDOLATRY: BANISHMENT FROM THE LAND (Deuteronomy
4:25-28)
25 When thou shalt beget children, and children'...
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_WHEN THOU SHALT BEGET CHILDREN, AND CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, AND YE SHALL
HAVE REMAINED LONG IN THE LAND, AND SHALL CORRUPT YOURSELVES, AND MAKE
A GRAVEN IMAGE, OR THE LIKENESS OF ANY THING, AND SHALL DO...
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 4
V1 ‘Therefore, everyone in *Israel, listen to the rules and the
laws that I will teach to you...
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SHALL HAVE REMAINED LONG. — Literally, _shall slumber — _a very
suggestive expression. Prosperity often sends true religion to sleep,
and brings conventional, or fashionable, religion in its stead....
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כִּֽי ־תֹולִ֤יד בָּנִים֙ וּ בְנֵ֣י
בָנִ֔ים וְ
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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JEHOVAH “A JEALOUS GOD”
Deuteronomy 4:15
How often Moses repeats, “ _take heed._ ” We must watch as well as
pray and keep our souls diligently. We must specially beware of
idols-that is, any visible...
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On the ground of this survey Moser exhorted the people to be obedient,
His appeal was based on the greatness of their God and the perfection
of His law. Their whole existence as a nation centered arou...
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When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall
have remained long in the land, and shall (q) corrupt [yourselves],
and make a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing], and...
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Observe the vast earnestness of the Sacred Preacher in the arguments
he adopts to interest the feelings of the people; and how he dwells,
again and again, upon the same very powerful motives to induce...
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In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be
called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of
institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
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_THE LAW OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_
‘When ye … shall corrupt yourselves.… Ye shall soon utterly
perish from off the land.’
Deuteronomy 4:25
Over and over again in Scripture we are taught, and for the most p...
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25._When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children_.
Although at the outset he only adverts to idolatry, yet, inasmuch as
he thence takes occasion to inveigh generally against the
transgresso...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1, 2, 3, AND 4.
Let us examine a little more closely these Chapter s, which shew the
pains the Spirit took, to set before the eyes of the people all the
moti...
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WHEN THOU SHALL BEGET CHILDREN, AND CHILDREN'S CHILDREN,.... Children
and grandchildren, and several ages and generations have passed:
AND SHALT HAVE REMAINED LONG IN THE LAND; many years and even ag...
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When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall
have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt [yourselves], and
make a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing], and sha...
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_And shall corrupt yourselves_ This seems to be evidently a prediction
of what Moses foresaw would take place; which that he did is still
more manifest in Deuteronomy 4:30....
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1 An Exhortation to obedience.
41 Moses appointeth the three Cities of refuge on that side Iordan.
1 NOWE therefore hearken, O Israel, vnto the Statutes, and vnto the
Iudgments which I teach you, fo...
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The Appeal Supported by a Reference to God's Kindness...
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When thou shalt beget children and children's children, and ye shall
have remained long in the land, literally, become old in the land,
which would include the forgetting of the former acts of God's m...
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MOSES INSISTS ON OBEDIENCE
(vs.1-14)
Because God had already blessed Israel and intended to bless them more
greatly still. Moses urges them to "listen to the statutes and
judgments" he is teaching th...
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24-40 Moses urged the greatness, glory, and goodness of God. Did we
consider what a God he is with whom we have to do, we should surely
make conscience of our duty to him, and not dare to sin against...
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IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD: these words are here added, either,
1. As a caution. Your idolatry, though possibly secretly and cunningly
managed, will not be hid from him; he sees it, and he will punish...
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Now therefore hearken O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
judgements which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go
in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth...
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Deuteronomy 4:25 beget H3205 (H8686) children H1121 grandchildren
H1121 H1121 old H3462 (H8738) land H776 corr
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WHAT THEIR FATE WILL BE IF THEY TURN AWAY FROM HIM TO GRAVEN IMAGES
(DEUTERONOMY 4:25).
This fate had already been portrayed by what had happened to their
fathers who were driven from the land (Deuter...
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CONTENTS: The new generations taught the lessons of Sinai. Cities of
refuge designated.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: The review of God's providences concerning us should
quicken us and engage...
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Deuteronomy 4:2. _Ye shall not add unto the word._ This would be to
debase revelation, and treat the divine law as a defective production
of man, that needed additions and retrenchments. Solon, the At...
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_Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go
in and possess the land._
MOSES’ DISCOURSE
1. In general it is...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—From the mention of what God had done for Israel,
Moses passes to the obedience of the law. They were under deep
obligation to keep it, and in doing so, consisted their wisdom,
greatne...
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EXPOSITION
DEUTERONOMY 4:25-5
Moses enforces the warning against idolatry, by predicting the evil
that should come upon the nation through the apostasy of those who
should in after times turn from Je...
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NOW therefore (Deuteronomy 4:1)
Moses is now making application.
NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and to the
judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that you may live, and go in
a...
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1 Corinthians 10:22; 2 Chronicles 36:12; 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 21:14;...
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PARTING WORDS
Deuteronomy 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
It is, perhaps, strange to some that we speak of the fourth chapter of
Deuteronomy as "Parting words," yet the whole Book of Deuteronomy
centers in t...