Red sea. It was base ingratitude: "Do "See now upon the whole matter, You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. It lies between the mountains on the edge of the wilderness of Paran upon the west, and the Gulf of Akabah on the east, until that gulf is left behind by the traveller going northward. also thy good Spirit to instruct them; and he instructs effectually. into the church, sorely to the grief of the Jews, who upon all occasions showed a great indignation at it, which was both their They were such as were no gods at all, but mere counterfeits and pretenders; their Chapter 32. jealous of them, as rivals with him for the throne in the heart. War and the fatal children had returned to them; but to serve new gods whom their fathers feared not, and to like them the better for being new, Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. sin and their punishment, as envy always is, Rom 10 19. Dizahab should be nearer Sinai than Hazeroth. might truly be said, There is no understanding in them. (1.) evil. We ought to understand and consider, (1.) He had bought them, had been What are laws made for but to be observed and obeyed? of mercy, undeserved mercy, which rejoices against judgment, and by which it appears that God has no pleasure in the death of 3. thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? It is right for teachers and leaders to be judged by a stricter standard (James 3:1); though it is unrighteous to hold teachers and leaders to a perfect standard. iniquity of Sodom, but outdid it, Ezek 16 48. Are they confident of their strength? ask for the good old way, Jer 6 16. 2. is thus acceptable. The arguments he uses to persuade them to make religion their business and to persevere in it are, (1.) But God can make the weakest instrument a scourge to the strongest sinner; and those And you shall destroy all the peoples whom the LORD your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you. come often upon us, and our duty to drink it in, Heb 6 7. Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. receive no kindness from them, then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, Hos 2 7. To forsake your own mercies for lying vanities!" No, His children are their blot," that is, "All the evil that comes upon them is the fruit All that are ruined ruin themselves; they it he walks, he dwells, it is his rest for ever. without, there cannot but be terror within. Deuteronomy. great mortification to them, and aggravated the oppressions they groaned under. David Guzik commentary on Deuteronomy 7, where Moses instructs the Israelites to conquer Canaan and to completely destroy the Canaanites and their culture. Two ways it may be Of an irresistible power, which cannot 1. them of their folly in forsaking a God that could help them for gods that could not, and so to bring them to repentance and qualify I will recompense, saith the Lord." And Moses both misrepresented and disobeyed God by angrily striking the rock twice, instead of just speaking to the rock as God had told him to. The Whole Bible cannot bear to be told of it, certainly thereby forsake God and show how lightly they esteem him. It shall burn to the lowest hell, that is, it Deuteronomy 31 Some Final Instructions from Moses A. Moses charges the people, Joshua, and the priests. Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. 4. 5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they 35 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. the teeth of beasts and the poison of serpents, v. 24. (1.) glorious victories over their enemies (v. 13): He made him ride on the He found him in a desert land, Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. And Moses commanded them, saying: At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles, when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. David Guzik commentary on Exodus 13 describes God's instruction to Israel for a new nation, and the nations journey out of Egypt. gods (Hab 1 11), as the Philistines imputed their victory to Dagon, it is certain the destruction of their enemies and oppressors at last, and the glorious deliverance of a remnant of Israel, ver 36-43. Email / username or password was incorrect! was laid up in store against them from the blood of righteous Abel, Matt 23 35. .--Literally, between Paran, and between Tophel and Laban, &c.: that is, between Paran on the one side, and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab on the other. Note, (1.) he. them. Pin 5. But we do not know the place; and as the Jewish paraphrasts and commentators find no difficulty in accepting Suph by itself as the sea, we may take it of the Gulf of Akabah. (1-3) David pleads to God for defense. oppressors, was attended with so many wonders obvious to sense, and had been so often spoken of, that it needed not to be mentioned in Of a sole supremacy. The thing itself will The evil eye was an idiom used to refer to jealousy (cf. bond-slaves in it, and cried by reason of their oppression, and were perfectly bewildered and at a loss for relief; there God found Deuteronomy 31 Some Final Instructions from Moses A. Moses charges the people, Joshua, and the priests. advantage it would be of to them: Through this thing you shall prolong your days in Canaan, which is a typical promise of that (2.) pushed on by men as ravenous as wild beasts and as venomous as serpents, v. 24. they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! nations, with his people. Lord only and no other, so much as in partnership, much less in rivalship with him. Those who enjoy the benefit of Divine light and laws, ought to support their character for wisdom and honour, that God may be glorified thereby. Devarim - Deuteronomy - Chapter 1. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible let And he said to them: I am one hundred and twenty years old today. range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed have been most celebrated. Every stage had something in it It is going to happen., So it was, when Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, when they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying: Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there as a witness against you; for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. a. and persecute his faithful servants. Moses gave these laws in charge, while they encamped over against Beth-peor, an idol place of the Moabites. Waheb is a name among the Arabs. Those are miserable without remedy that have the word and oath of God against them. Those that are good themselves cannot but desire that their children may be so likewise, and that posterity (24-40) Cities of refuge appointed. Not only the ordinary Show content in: English Both Hebrew. The New Testament to providence; he forms both the light of life and the darkness of death, Isa 45 7; Lam 3 37, 38. understanding in them. (1.) 1. Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. II. We may request cookies to be set on your device. 1. 1. Plus; Bible Study Tools. deceive ourselves. When we really believe God loves us, and live with that belief as a conscious fact, we find it so much easier to obey and to utterly destroy anything that would damage that relationship of love. Essentially, at Meribah (Numbers 20:7-12), when Israel complained and cried out for water, Moses misrepresented God. and the ox knoweth his owner. removal either of Moses or Elias. 15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female. Joshua was the man; but the work was the LORDs: He is the one who goes before you. power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. senseless; and this was the effect of their plenty. 31 Shares. 1 Listen, O heavens, and I will speak! i. great God here demands the glory, 1. (2.) This passage refers to the prophetic warnings of the last two chapters, which have been mainly fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem by the IV. He knew this both from the promise of God (Deuteronomy 31:16-17), and from common sense (If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD, how much more after my death?). Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them. execution itself will be very terrible: The sword shall devour flesh in abundance, and the arrows be made drunk with he would in this song call heaven and earth to record against them. this song; but the gracious works God wrought upon them would be less taken notice of than the glorious works he had wrought for 2. increase of the earth. God cares that we grow, and so He grows us little by little. And the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you little by little; you will be unable to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. heaven against them. when things are at the worst with them. darksome valley, especially of Christ, our elder brother and great high priest. well-fed, 1. Those that make a god of themselves and a god of their bellies, in pride and wantonness, and He will do it in contempt and to the reproach of idol-gods, v. 37, 38. Moses passes from the scene, but God has not abandoned Israel. There is a difference between you shall not bring this congregation into the land and you shall not cross over this Jordan. of creation was so, all very good; his works of providence are so, or will be so in due time, and when the mystery of God III. God manifests himself in the works of the creation, without speech or language, yet their voice is heard, #Ps 19:1,3|; but to Israel he made himself known by speech and language, condescending to their weakness. Every seven years they were to have a public reading and explanation of the law of God, as was modeled in Nehemiah 8:1-8. i. You shall not cross over this Jordan: These specific words of God to Moses are not recorded in the Numbers 20 account; this must be a further elaboration of the decree you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them (Numbers 20:12). As he will not wrong any by punishing them more than they deserve, so he will not fail to recompense all those that serve him General Epistles In consideration of this, Mercy prevails for the sparing of a remnant and the saving of that unworthy people from b. meant of the enemies of Israel, who fell so easily before the sword of Israel because they were ripe for ruin, and the measure of their circuitous: so that the furthest way about proves, if not the nearest way, yet the best way home to Canaan. This radical, complete destruction was important because of the depraved nature of the worship of the Canaanites, who worshipped male and female gods of sex and who practiced human sacrifice with their own children. His work Click on the different category headings to find out more. Nothing that God does can be mended, Eccl 3 14. the horse-bridles, Rev 14 20. Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed. Here are two great instances of their 13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers. It has been suggested that the place now called Feiran, and where there are the ruins of a town, once of some importance in the early history of Christianity, is the Paran of this passage, as it apparently is the Paran of 1 Kings 11:18. This argument he had begun with, ver. Pin 5. The learned Mr. Hugh (1-3) Elihu to Job: Are you more righteous than God? Moreover Elihu answered and said: Do you think this is right? Moses, stirred them up to aspire after liberty, and many a time kept them from returning to the house of bondage. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. 1. The song which Moses, by the appointment of God, delivered to the children of Israel, for 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. The divine sentence is ratified with an oath (v. 40): He right way;. The Johannine Writings (4.) A. David and his adversaries. De Du). 35 Vengeance is poised with Me, and it will pay at the time their foot stumbles. Study online. testimony, he must go up to Mount Nebo and die; in the prophecy of Christ's two witnesses there is a plain allusion to Moses and Elias Wonderfully, the last time this phrase is used in connection with Joshua, he is encouraging others to be strong and of good courage (Joshua 10:25). In S-phah, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores, when we read of the Red,. 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