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Hero worship exhibited itself in the practice of setting up images of
human form as household gods (Penates, compare Genesis 31:19; Genesis
35:2), or as local and civic divinities: a practice forbidde...
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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)
4. The w...
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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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SPAKE. See note on Deuteronomy 2:1.
SAW. Figure of speech _Zeugma._ App-6.: by which one verb 'saw" is
used with two objects and suits only the first.. second verb "heard"
must be supplied: compare E...
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Against Idolatry
The truth that is beneath the whole Law: God is revealed not in
images, but by words and deeds of redemption. Warned to lay their
experience to heart (Deuteronomy 4:9), Israel are re...
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_VER._ 10, 11, 12. _THOU STOODEST BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD_— See on
ch. Deuteronomy 1:9. _Unto the midst of heaven,_ ver. 11 is, in the
Heb. _in the heart of heaven, i.e. in the air._ So Tyre is said t...
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2. THE TEMPTATION TO FORGET GOD'S UNIQUE REVELATION (Deuteronomy
4:9-31)
a. GOD APPEARED AT HOREB BY WORD, NOT BY PHYSICAL FORM (Deuteronomy
4:9-14)
9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul dil...
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_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO YOU OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE: YE HEARD
THE VOICE OF THE WORDS, BUT SAW NO SIMILITUDE; ONLY YE HEARD A VOICE._
Ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude. Alth...
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FIRST DISCOURSE (DEUTERONOMY 1:14 TO DEUTERONOMY 4:43)
The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The
Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the
Promised Lan...
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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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וַ יְדַבֵּ֧ר יְהוָ֛ה אֲלֵיכֶ֖ם מִ
תֹּ֣וךְ הָ אֵ֑שׁ קֹ֤ול דְּבָרִים֙
אַתֶּ֣ם שֹׁמְעִ֔ים וּ תְמוּנָ֛ה...
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;
Deuteronomy 30:1.
WITH the twenty-sixth chapter the entirely homogeneous central portion
of the Book of...
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“TAKE HEED TO THYSELF”
Deuteronomy 3:23; Deuteronomy 4:1
Strong faith was required by the two and a half tribes to leave their
wives and children while they went to succor their brethren. But God's...
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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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_At all. Hebrew, "but saw no similitude, only a voice." See Exodus xx.
18._...
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The part of Israel's history, which Moses here referred to, hath been
already commented upon. To that I refer: See Exodus 19:18. But,
Reader, we never can sufficiently attend to this interesting part...
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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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Deuteronomy 4:12._And the Lord spake unto you. _It is a confirmation
of the Second Commandment, that God manifested Himself to the
Israelites by a voice, and not in a bodily form; whence it follows
th...
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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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AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO YOU OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE,.... For the
Lord descended on Mount Sinai in a cloud, in fire, and was in the
thick darkness, from whence he delivered out the ten commands:...
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And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the
voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only [ye heard] a voice.
Ver. 12. _Ye saw no similitude._] Numa the Roman lawgiver wo...
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_The midst of heaven_ Flaming up into the air, which is often called
heaven. _No similitude_ No resemblance or representation of God,
whereby either his essence, or properties, or actions were
represe...
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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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Moses Reminds the People of the Law-Giving....
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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 t...
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ONLY YE HEARD A VOICE:
_ Heb._ save a voice...
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1-23 The power and love of God to Israel are here made the ground and
reason of a number of cautions and serious warnings; and although
there is much reference to their national covenant, yet all may...
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i.e. No resemblance or representation of God, whereby either his
essence or properties or actions were represented, such as were usual
among the heathens....
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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 4:12 LORD H3068 spoke H1696 (H8762) midst H8432 fire H784
heard H8085 (H8802) sound H6963 words H1697 saw H7200 (H8802) form
H8544 only H2108 voice H6963
the Lord - Deuteronomy 5:4, D
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THEY ARE EVER TO REMEMBER THE GREAT AND WONDROUS EXPERIENCE OF HOREB
(SINAI) AND TAKE NOTE OF HIS STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS (DEUTERONOMY
4:10).
Moses now stressed the importance of the Sinai/Horeb exper...
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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 4:1
ADMONITIONS AND EXHORTATIONS. Moses, having presented to the people
certain facts in their recent history which had in them a specially
animating and encouraging tendency,...
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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...
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1 Kings 19:12; 1 Kings 19:13; 2 Peter 1:17; 2 Peter 1:18; Colossians
1:15; Deuteronomy 5:22; Deuteronomy 5:4; Deuteronomy 4:15; Deuteronomy
4:33;...
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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...
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No similitude — No resemblance or representation of God, whereby
either his essence, or properties, or actions were represented, such
as were usual among the Heathens....
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Was the law given at Horeb or at Mt. Sinai?
PROBLEM: Exodus 19:11 affirms that Moses received the Law at “Mt.
Sinai” (cf. v. 18). But here in Deuteronomy 4:10 it claims that
Moses got it “in Horeb.”...