Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place. — Repeated in Joshua 1:3, where see Note.
Every place. — Repeated in Joshua 1:3, where see Note.
Verse Deuteronomy 11:24. _FROM THE RIVER_] Euphrates, which was on the _east_, to _the uttermost sea _- the Mediterranean, which lay _westward_ of the promised land. This promise, notwithstanding the...
ISRAEL'S RESPONSIBILITY, THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God (Deuteronomy 11:1)_ 2. If ye hearken unto my commandments (Deuteronomy 11:10) 3. The b...
DEUTERONOMY 11. Continues the exhortation to love and obey Yahweh, giving motives and promises and pointing out the consequence of disobedience. Deuteronomy 11:2. Read (adding one Heb. consonant), for...
EVERY PLACE. Compare Joshua 1:3; Joshua 23:5.Exodus 23:31. FROM. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and from". RIVER. Hebrew. _nahar_,. flood, not _nahal_,. Wady....
Deuteronomy 10:12 to Deuteronomy 11:32. Final Exhortations, Introductory to the Laws Enforced by the preceding Retrospect, the discourse continues to urge its practical conclusions of full fear and l...
The Pl. address is continued in a series of formulas, repeated with some variations from previous passages. The secondary nature of part of this section cannot be doubted. The emergence of the Sg. in...
_VER._ 24. _EVERY PLACE WHEREON THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET SHALL TREAD_— i.e. Within the compass of the bounds here marked out, and so long as you fulfil the condition mentioned, ver. 22. REFLECTIONS.—1st...
(3) BY A CONSTANT REFRESHING OF MEMORY (Deuteronomy 11:2-25) 2 And know ye this day: for I _speak_ not with your children that have not known, and that have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your G...
_EVERY PLACE WHEREON THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET SHALL TREAD SHALL BE YOURS: FROM THE WILDERNESS AND LEBANON, FROM THE RIVER, THE RIVER EUPHRATES, EVEN UNTO THE UTTERMOST SEA SHALL YOUR COAST BE._ Every p...
11:24 Lebanon, (b-18) Or 'to Lebanon.' hinder (c-28) Or 'western,' i.e. the Mediterranean. so ch. 34.2....
Cp. Joshua 1:8; Joshua 1:4. The wilderness is the WILDERNESS of Judah in the S.; LEBANON is the northern boundary; the EUPHRATES is in the E.; and the uttermost sea (ht. 'the hinder sea') is the Medit...
PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONCLUDED) Some injunctions to obedience, with the blessing it entails, and the curse that follows disobedience....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 V1 ‘Therefore, love the *LORD your God. Always *keep his instructions, his rules and his *co...
כָּל ־הַ מָּקֹ֗ום אֲשֶׁ֨ר תִּדְרֹ֧ךְ כַּֽף ־ר
ISRAEL'S ELECTION, AND MOTIVES FOR FAITHFULNESS Deuteronomy 9:1; Deuteronomy 10:1; Deuteronomy 11:1 THE remaining Chapter s of this special introduction to the statement of the actual laws beginni
THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE Deuteronomy 11:18 Never in this world do we reach a position from which it is impossible to fall away. The dew and the rain of God's blessing are contingent on obedience; a...
As Moses concluded his great call to the people to the pathway of obedience, he reminded them what varied experiences they had had from which they knew the nature of the government and power of God....
Every place whereon the soles of (h) your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost (i) sea shall your coast be. ...
Yours. The nations of Chanaan, how strong soever, should fall, and their country be lawfully possessed by the Hebrews. --- Western sea. Hebrew, "the sea of the back." The Jews speak of the different p...
The extent of Israel's country, great as it was, was nothing compared to the extent of GOD'S love for them. The boundaries here mentioned, if spiritually considered, have a delightful reference to wha...
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...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8, 9, 10, AND 11. In chapter 8, in the most instructive and touching language as to the care God had taken of them, while keeping them in dependence, and His...
EVERY PLACE WHEREIN THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET SHALL TREAD,.... Meaning in the land of Canaan; though the Jews vainly apply this to every land, and country, and place therein, where any of them come; plea...
Deu. 11:24. The land was not given in this extent, but a small part of it, till David's time. Then first the people had given them the promised land fully, though the people probably expected immediat...
_Every place_ Not absolutely, as the Jewish rabbis fondly imagine, but in the promised land, as the sense is restrained in the following words; either by possession or by dominion, namely, upon condit...
1 An exhortation to obedience, 2 by their owne experience of Gods great works, 8 by promise of Gods great blessings, 16 and by threatnings. 18 A carefull study is required in Gods words. 26 The b...
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours; from the wilderness, namely, that of Arabia in the south and southeast, AND LEBANON, in the north, FROM THE RIVER, THE RIVER EUPH...
OBEDIENCE ENJOINED...
SOWING AND REAPING (vs.1-32) This chapter emphasizes the results of obedience in contrast to the consequences of disobedience. It begins with the commandment to love the Lord their God, which of cour...
18-25 Let all be directed by the three rules here given. 1. Let our hearts be filled with the word of God. There will not be good practices in the life, unless there be good thoughts, good affections...
EVERY PLACE; not absolutely, as if the Jews should be lords of all the world, as the rabbins fondly conceit; but in the Promised Land, as it is restrained in the following words. SHALL BE YOURS, eithe...
"Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgements, and his commandments, alway. And know ye this day; for I speak not with your children which have...
Deuteronomy 11:24 place H4725 sole H3709 foot H7272 treads H1869 (H8799) wilderness H4057 Lebanon H3844 river...
THE RESULT OF THIS WILL BE THAT THEIR WAY WILL PROSPER BEFORE THEM (DEUTERONOMY 11:22). Note that love for Yahweh commenced chapter 6 and now ends chapter 11 of the general stipulations of the covena...
CONTENTS: Warnings and exhortations to obedience. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The closer dependence we have had on God, the more cheerful should be our obedience to Him. In absolute obedienc...
Deuteronomy 11:10. _Water it with thy foot._ Egypt was watered periodically by the overflowing of the Nile; and the husbandman, following the retiring waters, sowed his seed. When the droughty season...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Deuteronomy 11:1 develops more fully the other features of Divine Requirements, Deuteronomy 10:12. Love must be seen in perpetual observance of commands. _Keep_, Leviticus 8:35;...
EXPOSITION Moses here renews his exhortation to obedience, enforced by regard to their experience of God's dealings with them in Egypt and in the wilderness, and by consideration of God's promises an...
In chapter eleven he continues his warnings to them, as they are about to come into the land. And he reminds them again of the miracles that God did for them in bringing them out of Egypt. How He spoi...
1 Kings 4:21; 1 Kings 4:24; 2 Chronicles 9:26; Exodus 23:31;...
Every place — Not absolutely, as the Rabbins fondly conceit, but in the promised land, as it is restrained in the following words; either by possession, or by dominion, namely, upon condition of your...