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The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:6-9
The separation of the sons of Levi. The tables of stone in the ark had to be committed to special officers. These were the sons cf. Levi. God called them to this, a high and glorious honor surely. They were also to mini…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time; the time when the covenant was restored at Sinai, not the time when Aaron died. The appointment of the tribe of Levi for service took place in connection with that of Aaron and his sons to the priesthood (…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:9
(Cf. Numbers 18:20-24.) Deuteronomy 10:10, Deuteronomy 10:11 Moses here sums up the general result of his intercession. As at the first, he was on the mount the second time forty days and forty nights; and in response t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:10-22
New obedience. Moses, having detailed the success of his intercession in Horeb, and that the threatened doom was averted and the pilgrimage proceeded with, goes on in this passage to analyze the obedience to be rendered…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:12-22
Knowledge of God the parent of obedient faith. Every honest view we take of God's service brings to light fresh features of attractiveness. It is the only right course. It satisfies conscience, reason, affection, desire…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:12-16
Israel's duty summed up and touchingly enforced. The rehearsal and review of Israel's waywardness, in which the great lawgiver had been reminding the people how much God had had to bear with from them, must have been ex…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:14-22
The supreme persuasive. The revelation of God's character in its double aspect of exalted might and of condescending grace. I. GOD EXALTED, YET STOOPING. (Deuteronomy 10:14-16.) The wonder of revelation: 1. That One so…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:16
Heart circumcision. I. HEART CIRCUMCISION IN ITS IMPORT. 1. Betokens the existence of natural impurity. The rite of circumcision, as the initiatory rite of the covenant, taught that man, in his natural, unpurified state…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:16
They were, therefore, to lay aside all insensibility of heart and all obduracy, to acknowledge God's supremacy, to imitate his beneficence, and to fear and worship him. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart. A…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:17
God of gods (Psalms 136:2). Not only supreme over all that are called god, but the complex and sum of all that is Divine; the Great Reality, of which the "gods many" of the nations were at the best but the symbols of pa…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:19
Love the stranger. The precept has numerous applications— I. TO LITERAL STRANGERS. Persons from foreign countries, or from distant parts of our own country, settling in our midst. Why should these be treated so often as…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:20
Religion in brief. A text made illustrious by our Savior's use of it. Like Deuteronomy 10:12, a summary of duty, but in a form giving prominence to the truth that fear of God works from within outwards. This central rel…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:20
Reverting to his main theme, Moses anew exhorts Israel to fear Jehovah their God, and to show true reverence to him by serving him, by cleaving to him, and by swearing in his Name (cf. Deuteronomy 4:4; Deuteronomy 6:13;…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:21
He is thy praise, i.e. the Object of thy praise; the Being who had given them abundant cause to praise him, and whom they were bound continually to praise (cf. Psalms 22:3; Psalms 109:1; Jeremiah 17:14). Terrible things…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:22
Among other marvelous acts toward Israel, was one done in Israel itself; they, whoso fathers went down to Egypt only seventy in number (Genesis 46:26, Genesis 46:27), had, notwithstanding the cruel oppression to which t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:1-32
EXPOSITION Moses here renews his exhortation to obedience, enforced by regard to their experience of God's dealings with them in Egypt and in the wilderness, and by consideration of God's promises and threatenings. The…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:1-12
Israel was to love the Lord, and manifest this by the steadfast observance of all that he had enjoined upon them.
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:1
His charge; what he has appointed to be observed and done (cf. Le 8:35; Numbers 1:53); more fully explained by his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments.
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:1-7
Ocular demonstrations of God's nearness increase human responsibility. Men disposed to skepticism often ask for clearer proof of the existence of God. But they deceive themselves. If they used well such evidence as they…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:1-9
Divine judgments upon others, to ensure obedience in us. Moses wishes to bring all possible motive to bear upon the people to secure their obedience in Canaan. He has just been speaking of their national development fro…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:2-9
The voice of God in passing events to be heeded, interpreted, and obeyed. As in former paragraphs, we have here much repetition of the same teachings which had been already given. We therefore select for homiletic treat…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:2
Knew ye; take note of, ponder, lay to heart. The words that follow, for … seen, are a parenthesis thrown in by the speaker to attract the attention especially of the older generation, who had witnessed the acts of the L…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:5
What he did unto yon in the wilderness. The doings of God to the people in the wilderness comprehend the manifestations of his omnipotence, both in their guidance and protection, and in the punishment of those who trans…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:6
All the substance that was in their possession; literally, every living thing (Genesis 7:4, Genesis 7:23) that was at their feet, i.e. all their followers (cf. "all the people that follow, thee," Exodus 11:8; "all the m…