THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED DEUTERONOMY -Year before the common Year of Christ, 1451 -Julian Period, 3263. -Cycle of the Sun, 10. -Dominical Letter, B -Cycle of the Moon, 10. -Indiction, 15. -Creation from Tisri or September, 2553. CHAPTER I _Introduction to the book_, 1, 2. _Moses addr... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:2. _THERE ARE ELEVEN DAYS_' JOURNEY] The Israelites were eleven days in going from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea, where they were near the verge of the promised land; after which they were thirty-eight years wandering up and down in the vicinity of this place, not being permitted, becau... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:3. _THE FORTIETH YEAR_] This was a melancholy year to the Hebrews in different respects; in the first month of this year Miriam died, Numbers 20:1; on the first day of the fifth month Aaron died, Numbers 33:38; and about the conclusion of it, Moses himself died.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:5. _BEGAN MOSES TO DECLARE THIS LAW_] Began, הואיל _hoil_, willingly undertook; to declare, באר _beer_, to make _bare, clear_, _ c., fully to explain_, this law. See the conclusion of the preface.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:6. _YE HAVE DWELT LONG ENOUGH, C._] They came to Sinai in the third month after their departure from Egypt, Exodus 19:1 and left it the twentieth of the second month of the second year, so it appears they had continued there nearly a whole year.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:7. _GO TO THE MOUNT OF THE AMORITES_] On the south of the land of Canaan, towards the Dead Sea. _LAND OF THE CANAANITES_] That is, Phoenicia, the country of Sidon, and the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea from the country of the Philistines to Mount Libanus. The _Canaanites_ and... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:10. _YE ARE THIS DAY AS THE STARS OF HEAVEN FOR_ _MULTITUDE._] This was the promise God made to Abraham, Genesis 15:5-1; and Moses considers it now as amply fulfilled. But was it really so? Many suppose the expression to be hyperbolical; and others, no friends to revelation, thi... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:13. _TAKE YOU WISE MEN_] חכמים _chachamim_, such as had gained knowledge by great labour and study. _Understanding_ נבנים nebonim, persons of discernment, judicious men. _Known_, ידעים yeduim, persons practised in the operations of nature, capable of performing curious and import... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:15. _CAPTAINS OVER THOUSANDS, C._] What a curious and well-regulated economy was that of the Israelites! See its order and arrangement: 1. GOD, the KING and Supreme Judge 2. _Moses_, God's prime minister; 3. The _priests_, consulting him by _Urim_ and _Thummim_; 4. The _chief... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:17. _YE SHALL NOT RESPECT PERSONS_] Heb. _faces_. Let not the bold, daring countenance of the rich or mighty induce you to give an unrighteous decision; and let not the abject look of the poor man induce you either to favour him in an unrighteous cause, or to give judgment agains... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:22. _WE WILL SEND MEN BEFORE US_] See on Numbers 13:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:28. _CITIES - WALLED UP TO HEAVEN_] That is, with very high walls which could not be easily scaled. High walls around houses, c., in these parts of Arabia are still deemed a sufficient defence against the Arabs, who scarcely ever attempt any thing in the way of plunder but on _ho... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:30. _THE LORD - SHALL FIGHT FOR YOU_] In the _Targum_ of Onkelos, it is, the WORD of _the Lord shall fight for you_. In a great number of places the Targums or Chaldee paraphrases use the term מימרא דיי _meimera dayeya_ or _Yehovah_, the Word of the Lord, exactly in the same way... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:34. _THE LORD - WAS WROTH_] That is, his justice was incensed, and he evidenced his displeasure against you; and he could not have been a _just_ God if he had not done so.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 36. _CALEB - WHOLLY FOLLOWED THE LORD._] Numbers 14:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:37. _THE LORD WAS ANGRY WITH ME_] _See on Clarke "_Numbers 20:12_"_, c., where a particular account is given of the sin of Moses.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:44. _THE AMORITES - CHASED YOU_] Numbers 14:40: _as bees do _- by irresistible numbers.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 1:46. _ACCORDING UNTO THE DAYS THAT YE ABODE THERE._] They had been a long time at this place, see Numbers 13:27; Numbers 20:1; Numbers 20:14; Numbers 20:21. And some think that the words mean, "Ye abode as long at Kadesh, when you came to it the second time, as ye did at the first... [ Continue Reading ]