Deuteronomy 4
1 An exhortation to obedience.41 Moses appoints the three cities of refuge on that side of Jordan.44 Recapitulation. unto the statutes.Statutes, every thing that concerned morals and the rites and ceremonies of religion; judgments, all matters of civil right and wrong. 8,45; 5:1; 6:1,2; 8:1; 11:1,32; Le 19:37; 20:8; 22:31; Ps 105:45Ps 119:4; Eze 11:20; 36:27; 37:24; Mt 28:20; Lu 1:6; Joh 15:14that ye may.Le 18:5; Eze 20:11,21; Ro 10:5 12:32; Jos 1:7; Pr 30:6; Ec 12:13; Mt 5:18,43; 15:2-9; Mr 7:1-13Ga 3:15; Re 22:18,19 what the.Nu 25:1-9; 31:16; Jos 22:17; Ps 106:28,29; Ho 9:10for all the men.It appears from this appeal, that the pestilence, as well as the sword of the magistrates, singled out the guilty persons and spared the rest. (Ps 91:6-8). The legislator, in order to deter the Jews from idolatry, alludes to this fact, but he notices no circumstance but one, which, though in the original narrative was not stated, was infinitely the most important to advert to on this occasion; but which no persons, but spectators of the fact, and perfectly acquainted with every individual concerned in it, could possibly feel the truth of. Nu 26:64 10:20; 13:4; Jos 22:5; 23:8; Ru 1:14-17; Ps 63:8; 143:6-11Isa 26:20; Eze 9:4; Joh 6:67-69; Ac 11:23; Ro 12:9; Re 14:4; 20:4 1; Pr 22:19,20; Mt 28:20; Ac 20:27; 1Co 11:28; 15:3; 1Th 4:1,2Heb 3:5The people had been often ready to conclude that Moses taught them by his own authority; but at the close of his life he solemnly assured them that he had instructed them exactly as the Lord had commanded him, neither more, nor less, nor otherwise. This is a most express declaration that he was divinely inspired, and utterly incompatible with his integrity of character, if he was not. Scott. this is your.Job 28:28; Ps 19:7; 111:10; 119:98-100; Pr 1:7; 14:8; Jer 8:92Ti 3:15; Jas 3:13Surely.1Ki 4:34; 10:6-9; Ps 119:99; Da 1:20; 4:9; 5:11-16; Zec 8:20-23Mal 3:12 what nation.Nu 23:9,21; 2Sa 7:23; Isa 43:4who hath.5:26; Ps 46:1; 73:28; 145:18; 148:14; Isa 55:6; Eph 2:12-22; Jas 4:8 10:12,13; Ps 19:7-11; 119:86,96,127,128; 147:19,20; Ro 7:12-142Ti 3:16,17 keep thy soul.15,23; Pr 3:1,3; 4:20-23; Lu 8:18; Heb 2:3; Jas 2:22lest they.Jos 1:18; Ps 119:11; Pr 3:1-3,21; 4:4; 7:1; Heb 2:1; Re 3:3teach them.6:7; 11:19; 29:29; 31:19; Ge 18:19; Ex 13:8,9,14-16; Jos 4:6,7,21Ps 34:11-16; 71:18; 78:3-8; Pr 1:8; 4:1-13; 23:26; Isa 38:19Eph 6:4 the day.5:2; Ex 19:9,16; 20:18; Heb 12:18,19,25fear me.5:29; Ex 20:20; 1Sa 12:24; Ec 12:13; Lu 1:50; Re 19:5 stood.5:23; Ex 19:16-18; 20:18,19midst. Heb. heart. the Lord.5:4,22no similitude.15; Nu 12:8; Isa 40:18; Col 1:15only ye heard a voice. Heb. save a voice.33,36; Ex 20:22; 1Ki 19:12,13; Isa 30:21; 40:3,6; Mt 3:3,17; 17:5Joh 12:28-30; 2Pe 1:17,18 And he.5:1-21; Ex 19:5; 24:17,18; Heb 9:19,20ten.10:4; Ex 34:28he wrote.9:9-11; 10:1-5; Ex 24:12; 31:18; 34:28; 2Co 3:7; Heb 9:4 Eze 21:1-23:49; Ps 105:44,45 Take ye.9,23; Jos 23:11; 1Ch 28:9,10; Ps 119:9; Pr 4:23,27; Jer 17:21Mal 2:15of similitude.12; Isa 40:18; 2Co 4:4-6; Heb 1:3 corrupt.8,9; Ex 20:4,5; 32:7; Ps 106:19,20; Ro 1:22-24the likeness.Such as Baal-peor, the Roman Priapus; Ashtaroth or Astarte, the Greek and Roman Venus, and many others. 23; Isa 40:18; Joh 4:24; Ac 17:29; 20:4,5; 1Ti 1:17 In these verses there is an evident allusion to the idolatrous worship in Egypt. Among the Egyptians, almost everything in nature was the object of their idolatry; among beasts were oxen, heifers, sheep, goats, lions, dogs, monkeys, and cats; among birds, the ibis, crane, and hawk; among reptiles, the crocodile, serpents, frogs, flies, and beetles; all the fish of the Nile, and the Nile itself; besides the sun, moon, planets, stars, fire, light, air, darkness, and night. These are all included in the very circumstantial prohibition in the text, and very forcibly in the general terms of Ex 20:4, the reason of which prohibition becomes self-evident, when the various objects of Egyptian idolatry are considered. Ro 1:23 18 when thou.17:3; 2Ki 23:4,5,11; Job 31:26,27; Jer 8:2; Eze 8:16; Am 5:25,26the host.Ge 2:1; 2Ki 17:16; 21:3; Jer 19:13; Zep 1:5; Ac 7:42; Ro 1:25which the Lord.Ge 1:16-18; Jos 10:12,13; Ne 9:6; Ps 74:16,17; 136:7-9; 148:3-5Jer 31:35; 33:25; Mt 5:45divided. or, imparted. the iron.1Ki 8:51; Jer 11:4a people.9:26,29; 32:9; Ex 19:5,6; Ps 28:9; 33:12; 135:4; Isa 63:17,18Eph 1:18; Tit 2:14; 1Pe 2:9 1:37; 3:26; 31:2; Nu 20:12; Ps 106:32,33 3:25,27; 1Ki 13:21,22; Am 3:2; Heb 12:6-10; 2Pe 1:13-15 heed.9,15,16; 27:9; Jos 23:11; Mt 24:4; Lu 12:15; 21:8; Heb 3:12lest ye forget.6:12; 29:25; 31:20; Jos 23:16; 1Ch 16:15; Isa 24:5; Jer 31:22Eze 16:59make you.16; Ex 20:4,5 thy God.9:3; 32:22; Ex 24:17; Ps 21:9; Isa 30:33; 33:14; Jer 21:12-14Na 1:6; Zep 1:18; Heb 12:29a jealous God.6:15; 29:20; 32:16,21; Ex 20:5; 34:14; Ps 78:58; Isa 42:8; Na 1:2Zep 3:8; 1Co 10:22 beget.31:16-18; Jud 2:8-15corrupt. See on ver.16; 31:29; Ex 32:7; Ho 9:9do evil.2Ki 17:17-19; 21:2,14-16; 2Ch 36:12-16; 1Co 10:22 I call heaven.A most solemn method of adjuration, in use among all the nations in the world; God and man being called upon to bear testimony to the truth of what was spoken, that if there was any flaw or insincerity it might be detected, and if any crime, it might not go unpunished. Such appeals to God shew at once the origin and use of oaths. 30:18,19; 31:28; 32:1; Isa 1:2; Jer 2:12; 6:19; 22:29; Eze 36:4Mic 1:2; 6:2ye shall.29:28; Le 18:28; 26:31-35; Jos 23:16; Isa 6:11; 24:1-3; Jer 44:22Eze 33:28; Lu 21:24 28:62-64; Ne 1:3,8,9; Eze 12:15; 32:26 ye shall.28:36,64; 1Sa 26:19; Jer 16:13; Eze 20:32,39; Ac 7:42neither see.Ps 115:4-7; 135:15,16; Isa 44:9; 45:20; 46:7; Jer 10:3,9 But if.30:10; Le 26:39-42; 2Ch 15:4,15; Ne 1:9; Isa 55:6,7; Jer 3:12-14Jer 29:12-14with all.30:1-3; 1Ki 8:47,48; 2Ki 10:31; 23:3; 2Ch 15:12; 31:21; Ps 119:2,10Ps 119:58,145; Jer 3:10; Joe 2:12 all these.1Ki 8:46-53; 2Ch 6:36-39; Da 9:11-19are come upon thee. Heb. have found thee.31:17; Ex 18:8; *marg:in the latter.31:29; Ge 49:1; Nu 24:20; Jer 23:20; Da 10:14; Ho 3:5; Heb 1:2if thou.30:10; La 3:40; Ho 14:2,3; Joe 2:12,13; Ac 3:19; 26:20obedient.Isa 1:19; Jer 7:23; Zec 6:15; Heb 5:9 the Lord.Ex 34:6,7; Nu 14:18; 2Ch 30:9; Ne 1:5; 9:31; Ps 86:5,15; 116:5Ps 145:8,9; Jon 4:2; Mic 7:18forget.Le 26:42,45; Ps 105:8; 111:5,9; Jer 14:21; Lu 1:72 ask now.Job 8:8; Ps 44:1; Joe 1:2from the one.30:4; Mt 24:31; Mr 13:27 24-26; 9:10; Ex 19:18,19; 20:18,19; 24:11; 33:20; Jud 6:22 take him.Ex 1:9; 3:10,17-20temptations.7:19; 29:3; Ex 9:20,21; 10:7by signs.Ex 7:3; Ps 78:12,48-53by a mighty.5:15; 6:21; 7:8,9; Ex 6:6; 13:3; 1Pe 5:6and by great.26:8; 34:12; Ex 12:30-33 know.1Sa 17:45-47; 1Ki 18:36,37; 2Ki 19:19; Ps 58:11; 83:18none else.32:23; Ex 15:11; 1Sa 2:2; Isa 44:6,8; 45:5,18,22; Mr 12:29,321Jo 5:20,21 33; Ex 19:9,19; 20:18-22; 24:16; Ne 9:13; Heb 12:18,25 because.7:7-9; 9:5; 10:15; Ps 105:6-10; Isa 41:8,9; Jer 31:1; Mal 1:2Lu 1:72,73; Ro 9:5and brought.Ex 13:3,9,14in his sight.2Ch 16:9; Ps 32:8; 34:15with his.34; Ps 114:1-6; 136:10-15; Isa 51:9-11; 63:11,12 drive.7:1; 9:1-5; 11:23; Ex 23:27,28; Jos 3:10; Ps 44:2,3as.2:31-37; 3:1-16; 8:18 and consider.32:29; 1Ch 28:9; Isa 1:3; 5:12; Ho 7:2the Lord.35; Jos 2:11; 1Ch 29:11; 2Ch 20:6; Ps 115:3; 135:6; Da 4:35 keep.1,6; 28:1-14; Le 22:31; 26:1-13; Jer 11:4; Joh 14:15,21-24it may go.5:16; 6:3,18; 12:25,28; 22:7; Eph 6:3; 1Ti 4:8 Nu 35:6,14,15; Jos 20:2-9 19:1-10; Nu 35:6,11,12,15-28; Heb 6:18 Bezer.Bezer is the same as Bozra, formerly a royal city of Edom. See Note on "Ge 36:33"|. Jos 20:8Ramoth.Ramoth was a celebrated city in the mountains of Gilead, placed by Eusebius fifteen miles east from Philadelphia or Ammon, and by Jerome in the neighbourhood of Jabbok, and consequently north of Philadelphia. Jos 21:38; 1Ki 4:13; 22:3,4; 1Ch 6:80Golan.This city gave name to the district of Gaulonitis, now called Djolan, which comprises the plain to south of Djedour or Iturea, and to the west of Haouran: its southern frontier is the Nahar Aweired, by which it is separated from the district of Erbad, and the Sheriat el Mandhour, which separates it from the district of El Kefarat: on the west it is limited by the territory of Feik, and on the north-west by Djebel Heish, or mount Hermon. Jos 21:27; 1Ch 6:71 This is evidently an introduction to the discourse of the subsequent chapters. Moses having practically improved some particulars in the history of Israel, proceeded to repeat and enforce the laws which he had delivered before, with additions and explanations, beginning with the ten commandments. 1:5; 17:18,19; 27:3,8,26; 33:4; Le 27:34; Nu 36:13; Mal 4:4; Joh 1:17 These.6:17,20; 1Ki 2:3; Ps 119:2,14,22,24,111statutes.1; Ps 119:5judgments.Ps 119:7 On this side.47; 1:5; 3:29; Nu 32:19over.3:29Beth-peor.Beth-peor was a city which was situated, according to Eusebius, opposite Jericho, and six miles above Livias. As the name signifies "the house of Peor," it is probable that there was a temple to Peor, situated in this place, full in view of the people, while Moses was pressing upon them the worship of Jehovah alone; and perhaps the very temple where so many had sinned to their own destruction. Moses.1:4; 2:30-36; 3:8; Nu 21:21-32 3:1-14; 29:7,8; Nu 21:33-35 Aroer.2:36; 3:12; Jos 13:24-33even unto.The Samaritan interpreter has, "unto the mountain of snow, which is Hermon." See Note on ch. 3:9. Sion.3:9; Ps 133:3 under the springs.3:17; 34:1; Jos 13:20
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