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Compare Joshua 8:32. The solemnity was apparently designed only for
the single occasion on which it actually took place.
Deuteronomy 27:12, Deuteronomy 27:13...
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23. THE MEMORIAL OF THE LAW AT MOUNT EBAL; GERIZIM AND EBAL
CHAPTER 27
_ 1. The memorial to be set up in the land (Deuteronomy 27:1)_
2. Gerizim and Ebal (Deuteronomy 27:9)
Little comment is needed...
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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),...
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_Cursed be_ The Heb. for this is simply the passive part. of the vb.
-to curse" (the original sense of which may have been -to bind"), and
may be rendered either _cursed be or cursed is_....
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_Amen_ The Heb. _"amen_(lit. _firm_or _assured_) when used as an
exclamation means _true, truly_, or _be it assured_. All the instances
of _"Amen_which are parallel to this are post-exilic.
Cp. Deute...
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Appointment of the Levites to Curse
According to 11 13 both a blessing and a curse were to be pronounced,
here we have only curses, twelve in number. There _Levi_was one of six
tribes appointed to bl...
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_VER._ 15. _CURSED BE THE MAN THAT MAKETH,_ &C.— The people being to
bless, as well as to curse, the _Mischna_ seems very justly to explain
it thus: that first the priests, turning their faces towards...
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_AND THE LEVITES SHALL SPEAK, AND SAY UNTO ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL WITH
A LOUD VOICE,_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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27:15 secretly! (c-26) Or 'in a secret place.'...
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CEREMONIES TO BE OBSERVED ON REACHING CANAAN
This chapter has probably been misplaced, as it seems to break the
connexion between Deuteronomy 26 and Deuteronomy 28. It ordains four
ceremonies to be ob...
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CURSED _be_ THE MAN] There is no verb in the Hebrew, and it might be
more correct to say 'cursed is the man.' The words are a declaration
of fact rather than an imprecation. The seeming harshness of m...
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 27
V1 Moses and the leaders of the *Israelites ordered the people.
‘*Keep all the *commandments...
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אָר֣וּר הָ אִ֡ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יַעֲשֶׂה֩
פֶ֨סֶל וּ
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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CURSES UPON EVILDOERS
Deuteronomy 27:1
Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal were two masses of limestone rock,
reaching 2700 and 2000 feet above the sea-level. Between them lay a
beautiful valley, about 300...
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We have here the record of something distinctive and arresting.
Immediately after the close of the second discourse containing a
r6sum6 I of laws, Moses and the elders commanded the people that after...
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Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten (h) image, an
abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and
putteth [it] in [a] secret [place]. And all the people shall...
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Thing. Protestant, any....image. They insert the word any, and
translate image, as they almost constantly do where idols are meant,
to make the ignorant believe, that all images are to be rejected wit...
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I detain not the Reader with observations concerning the several
curses here pronounced, or entering into the particulars of them. It
is enough to remark, that they express their several sentences of...
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It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this
book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22.
What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
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15._Cursed be the man that maketh any graven_. Hence it appears that
Moses is silent as to the half (of what he had spoken of before;
(199)) for no mention is made of the blessings (200) which occupie...
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Now comes the sanction-that is to say, that which gives vigour to His
law-in the consequences (blessings and curses) which were to
correspond with obedience or disobedience. This is brought out in
cha...
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CURSED [BE] THE MAN THAT MAKETH [ANY] GRAVEN OR MOLTEN IMAGE,.... The
blessings and the form of them are not recorded, because they were not
to be had from the law, and through obedience to it; and th...
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_Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten image, an
abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and
putteth [it] in [a] secret [place]. And all the people shall an...
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_Cursed_ The curses are expressed, but not the blessings. For as many
as were under the law, were under the curse. But it was an honour
reserved for Christ to bless us; to do that which the law could...
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1 The people are commanded to write the Law vpon stones,
5 and to build an Altar of whole stones.
11 The Tribes diuided on Gerizzim and Ebal.
14 The curses pronounced on mount Ebal.
1 AND Moses wi...
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THE CURSE PRONOUNCED FROM MOUNT EBAL...
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Cursed be them an that maketh any grave nor molten image, Exodus 20:4;
Exodus 34:17, AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD, THE WORK OF THE HANDS OF
THE CRAFTSMAN, Isaiah 44:12, and putteth it in a secret plac...
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A MEMORIAL ON MOUNT EBAL
(vs.1-10)
With the directive again to keep all the commandments of the Lord,
Moses gave Israel instructions, when they get into the land, to set up
large stones coated with...
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11-26 The six tribes appointed for blessing, were all children of the
free women, for to such the promise belongs, Galatians 4:31. Levi is
here among the rest. Ministers should apply to themselves th...
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Under this particular he understands all the gross violations of the
first table, as under the following branches he comprehends all other
sins against the second table, as is manifest from hence, tha...
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"And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. And it shall
be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which...
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Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed H779 (H8803) one H376 makes H6213 (H8799)
carved H6459 image H4541 abomination H8441
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MOSES DESCRIBES HOW THE COVENANT CEREMONY WILL PROCEED ONCE THEY HAVE
REACHED SHECHEM (DEUTERONOMY 27:11).
On that same day as he had spoken all the words from Deuteronomy 5:1
onwards and given instru...
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CONTENTS: The blessing and cursing from Mt. Ebal and Gerizim.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: We are all compelled to say Amen to the law of God, owning
ourselves justly under its curse and that...
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Deuteronomy 27:2. _Great stones,_ thought to be twelve in each pillar;
they wrote the curses on the one pillar, and the blessings on the
other.
Deuteronomy 27:3. _Thou shalt write upon them all the wo...
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_Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark._
THE LANDMARKS OF FAITH
The landmarks of faith are just the truth which God has revealed to
men, and the duty which He requires of them. Among th...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 27:1 Moses’ Third Speech:
Blessings and Curses. Ancient covenant treaties included blessings for
keeping the treaty conditions and curses for not keeping them (see
char...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 27:15 On IMAGE, see Deuteronomy 5:8.
“AMEN.” All the people
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CRITICAL NOTES.—Connect this chapter with Deuteronomy 27:16 of
preceding one, where Moses concludes discourse on plains of Moab. Here
he dwells on sanctions of the law and sets forth in striking detai...
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PART III.—THIRD DISCOURSE OF MOSES. THE COVENANT RENEWED. CHAPTERS
27-30.
EXPOSITION
Deuteronomy 27:1. INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE PU
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In chapter twenty-seven, when you come into the land you are to take
these stones and you are to build a tower and you are to plaster it.
And then you are to write on the plaster of the tower the word...
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1 Corinthians 14:16; 1 Kings 11:5; 1 Samuel 26:19; 2 Chronicles 33:2;...
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Cursed — The curses are expressed, but not the blessings. For as
many as were under the law, were under the curse. But it was an honour
reserved for Christ to bless us; to do that which the law could...