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The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:48-52
Death immediately in view. The utterance of the sublime song which we have just treated on, was the last recorded public act of Moses. His work is all but done. He receives an intimation that the time is nigh at hand fo…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:48-52
Obedient unto death. In Moses, Faith had achieved one of her most signal triumphs. From early youth to latest manhood, he had acted and "endured as seeing him who is invisible." No earthly or visible honor had ever ench…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:48-52
Death a judgment even to the most faithful servants of God. After the solemn address to the people, God gives a personal address to Moses. It is about his approaching death. He is to see the land, but not to enter it, b…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:48-52
Moses' end (see Deuteronomy 34:1-12.).—J.O. HOMILIES BY R.M. EDGAR
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:49
Abarim (cf. Numbers 21:10, Numbers 21:20). Nebo (cf. Numbers 32:3, Numbers 32:38). An idol Nebo was worshipped by the Moabites (Isaiah 46:1).
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:50
And be thou gathered unto thy people. "To Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This signifies," saith R. Isaac, "that he should be associated and joined to the souls of the just who are called his people. For the people of Moses…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:51
(Cf. Numbers 20:13, Numbers 20:24.) Because ye sanctified me not (cf. Numbers 27:14; 1 Peter 3:15).
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:52
Yet thou shalt See the land (cf. Hebrews 11:13). HOMILETICS
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:1-21
We come now to the command that was laid on Joshua. And hero we may observe three points. I. SUCCESS WAS CERTAIN IF GOD'S COMMANDS WERE OBEYED. God does not say, "I will give," but, "I have given" Jericho into thine han…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:1-21
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The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:1
This verse (see above) is parenthetical. It explains why the captain of the Lord's host appeared unto Joshua. The inhabitants of Jericho, though in a state of the utmost alarm, were nevertheless fully on their guard aga…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:2
And the Lord said. This is no new source of information for Joshua. Jehovah is here obviously identical, as commentators are generally agreed, with the "Captain of the Lord's host" in the last chapter (comp. Genesis 18:…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:4
And seven priests shall bear before the ark. The Vulgate puts "on the seventh day" in connection with this part of the sentence; Luther also translates thus. The LXX; which Calvin and our translators and the majority of…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:5
When they make a long blast with the ram's horn. Literally, as they draw out with the horn of jubilee, i.e; blow a prolonged blast (of. Exodus 19:13). Here the word used is horn of jubilee, but not necessarily of ram's…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:7
And he said. The text has they said. Our translators follow the Masoretic emendation. If we follow the original we must suppose that the priests, or, as with Keil and Knobel, the Shoterim (Joshua 1:10), conveyed Joshua'…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:8
He that is armed, or rather disencumbered, i.e; prepared for battle (see Joshua 4:13). Similarly, in the next verse, "the armed men," i.e; the host in marching order, as we say. Kimchi and Jarchi refer this to the Reube…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:8
Siege of Jericho. The Red Sea; a land where there was no water; want of food; terrors of the spies; the warlike people of Bashan; Jordan impossible; a Jericho impregnable. Such are the successive strains made on the fai…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:10
Ye shall not shout. No sign of triumph was to be raised; but the Israelites, their priests, and the ark of their covenant were in solemn silence to encompass the city day by day, until they were commanded to raise the s…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:13
The rereward (see Joshua 5:9). Literally, the gathering together and then the body of troops which collects the stragglers, the rear guard, as in Numbers 10:25; Isaiah 52:12; Isaiah 58:8. Calvin renders here by quia cog…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:15
And it came to pass on the seventh day. Why did God command this long pause of suspense and expectation? Even to teach us that His ways are not as our ways, and that we had far better leave the issue in His hands, than…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:16
When the priests. There is no "when" in the original, nor is it needed (see Keil).
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:17
Accursed. Rather, devotea, ἀναθεμα LXX. The original meaning of this word is derived from הרם to "shut up." Hence it originally means "a net." With this we may compare the well known Eastern word harem, meaning the enc…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:18
Accursed thing. Better," thing devoted," as this keeps up the idea of something solemnly set apart to God, to be dealt with as He thinks fit. Lest ye make yourselves accursed when ye take of the accursed thing. Rather,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 6:19
Consecrated unto the Lord. Literally, as margin, holiness unto the Lord (cf. Exodus 28:36; Exodus 39:30; Le Exodus 27:14, Exodus 27:21; Jeremiah 2:3). An expression used of anything specially devoted to God.