"Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of Egypt." It probably covers the last month and a half of Moses' life. So he's getting up there now, about a hundred and twenty years old. It is no use talking about Israel: the first object is God. p. 136 (Pitman's Edition). Setting up other gods in the wilderness. The events in this section of verses took place before Israel left Horeb. It was simply a question of subjection to God and obeying Him, who had from the first a plan for the nations round Israel as their centre. In the very first place is laid down utter destruction of the high places. The consequence is that, though all have their place, these distinctions may here seem small indeed. So the commandment of God; "you've been here long enough, you've circled this mountain long enough". What a horrible thing, what a horrible thing to say about God and against God; God hates us. 7 Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the . He might and would give it to them, but still He always kept His place. They might be greater, stronger, wiser, more than the Israelites; but what of Jehovah? The man who said, "Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest," had no faith at all. And though he recounts the forty years from Egypt to coming into the land, yet we are told that these things came in the eleventh month in the first day of the fortieth year. Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them. God must and does choose for Himself a simple yet most important consideration (ver. "And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no." And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace." It is not the liberty of grace, which the feast of pentecost is, but rather the epoch in type when the liberty of glory shall arrive. In Deuteronomy 5:12 the term keep corresponds to remember in Exodus 20:8, and the last clause of the former verse, 'as the Lord thy God hath commanded,' is wanting in Exodus. We hear of sin and trespass-offerings, peace and burnt-offerings, meat-offerings and drink-offerings, not to speak of the daily lambs and occasional victims. Not only did the Lord say the right thing, but the ground, the line, and the spirit of the book whence He chose His answers were such as took the becoming place under such circumstances before God. But inasmuch as the Lord's three answers are taken from the early portion of Deuteronomy, which comes before us on this occasion, I have at once referred to this patent fact. This is then what he was pressing. There is another peculiarity in the book of Deuteronomy which it is well to present briefly before we descend to particulars; it supposes the failure of the people. If the rigidly literal meaning of the phrase 'God spake these words' is not adhered to in the case of the one record, it need not in the case of the other. John here used the word "Jews" as a designation for the Jerusalemites, who, as enemies of Christ, were to be distinguished from the multitudes who were in doubt J. Why should they not rejoice? It was revealed as the great operative truth, continually impressed on Israel their one true God. deuteronomy 1:6 prayer points. Where the world or the flesh governs, the trial is not felt. 4; iv. It is not to be doubted that the words cited from Deuteronomy were the very best that they were chosen according to divine perfection. Your fruit baskets and breadboards. It was after the golden calf, nay more than this; it was after the whole disciplinary dealings of Jehovah had now come to an end. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." When man builds up a society, when he founds a religion or any other scheme, how wholly different his course! "And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.". "Ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire in the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. But they saw the giants in the land and the high-walled cities instead of God. ^d 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? The Israelites realized nothing of the kind. Look at the way in which Jehovah treated even these enemies of Israel. 11-52. His Father will take care of him. Known to God (ver. Moses mentions how the saying pleased him: here things are stated exactly as they were. Though God brings his people into trouble and affliction, into spiritual trouble and affliction of mind, he knows when they have dwelt long enough in it, and will certainly find a time, the fittest time, to advance them from the terrors of the spirit of adoption. This is precisely what does put man to the proof morally. Consequently, when Christianity began, the first day of the week was made the distinguishing mark, the Lord's-day, and not the sabbath. * It is a familiar point to many, but may claim a brief notice here, especially as all do not see its bearing in by no means the least striking of the ten words; I speak of the law of the sabbath. pt. In Deuteronomy 5:14 is the addition, 'thine ox nor thine ass,' as well as the clause, 'that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou.' What gentle censures, if any, what palpable favouritism towards his own party, where they most deserve reproof and rebuke or perhaps still more stringent measures! 41-43--here irrelevant (cf. They were only tenants, and had to pay Him rent. In Deuteronomy 16:1-17 (where I now stop) we have the winding up of all this part the termination of the statutes which had to do with religion. The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. vi. Preventive against Backsliding. It was not in His mind to offer men His law or the sword. 94.]. God will lift to the highest level that you will allow Him to lift you and do the best for you on that level, but the work of God in our lives is always limited by us. It was by this Scripture that the Lord, as we know, repelled the first temptation of the adversary. Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount.--From the beginning of the second month of the first year of the exodus (Exodus 19:1) to the twentieth day of the second month of the second year (Numbers 10:11).This was the period of organisation, in which the people received the . II. Wherein lay the superior propriety of Deuteronomy to furnish answers at that juncture for Christ, as compared with any other book of scripture? They failed to enter in by faith to that which God had promised to them. This then is the leading truth of Deuteronomy. *Dr. D. (Introd. Then in Deuteronomy 13:1-18 there is a similar line, all these early injunctions being what we may call religious statutes. It is most instructive to note how exceedingly anxious the early Christians were, that, as soon as a man was converted, he should be "filled with the Holy Ghost." Who shall deliver me from this bondage to my flesh?" In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. The other had its place when God was giving the book of Leviticus. 7 Powerful Prayer Points with Scripture. 5, 6; 1 Tim. Then in Deuteronomy 2:1-37 the law-giver reminds them how they took their weary journey. 21 et seqq.) I dare say we have almost all done so, without referring to any particular mode; for alas! Accordingly this is the solemn and central truth that is brought in here. Deuteronomy 31:1 "And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel." "Moses went and spake": Though some interpreters view this verse as the conclusion to the foregoing address in (chapters 29-30), it is better to see these words as an introduction to the words of Moses which follow, based upon the general pattern of Deuteronomy. Pray along these points: Thank Father God for how far He has already brought you. Types are but sparsely presented over the great bulk of the instruction which crowds its pages. And be. They had had many a sight of their own hearts, and they had had ample experience of God's ways in patient and gracious government. There is then (verses 12-18) pointed out the way to deal with a city guilty of idolatry. Forever and ever. "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons.". Coming to the Valley of Eshcol, searching it out and taking the fruit and bringing it back. ). It is the king's mountain." Which the Holy Scripture called "The hill-country of Judah," Joshua 21:11; Luke 1:39. It is possible, however, that the ipsissima verba may be in one or other. The remembrance of their own estate as slaves in Egypt till delivered by Jehovah is most suitable in verse 15; but it is certain that this is an appeal to their hearts, not the ground stated by God in promulgating the fourth commandment. No matter what it may cost, he assumes that he will at once go through with the will of the Lord. And here the people were making this blasphemous accusation; "because God hates us, he brought us out here". And Jehovah our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people." In Deuteronomy 6:1-25 we find the first of those texts which our Lord quotes. Now in Numbers it doesn't tell us that they came to Moses to request these spies, but in Deuteronomy is adding a little bit more detail than he gave in the book of Numbers. This was their real object. Then they are told not to celebrate the feast indiscriminately where and as they please. Help me to be courageous in the face of my enemies. Now Israel had totally failed in their place. So this is where the word Deuteronomy comes from "Moses began to declare this law". The reason is obvious. Now wherein lay this fitness not only in the words that were cited, but in the particular book from which they were extracted? 24; 2 Cor. Now I affirm that on the face of the scriptures no candid person can deny that Exodus is professedly given as the history of the matter; Deuteronomy as a subsequent recital to the people, without the least aim at reiterating the words, which would have been the easiest thing in the world; for even these free thinkers do not pretend that the Deuteronomist did not possess Exodus. More than that, it was the cause of Moses not being allowed. Prayer Point #5: Pray for Israel. It seems just a parenthesis, and not a question of chronology.*. Now get moving. This was guarded against from the first by the fact that no similitude of God was vouchsafed. The wish emanated neither from God nor His servant but from the people, though Moses, at God's command, did send them to the ruin of that generation, as it turned out And it has been well remarked on the one hand, that he graciously omits to repeat God's offer to make himself a fresh stock after their destruction but for his intercession; while on the other he confesses how he, no less than their fathers, had grieved Jehovah, so that he was not to lead them into the land any more than they, but to give that place of honour to Joshua. Unless I am very much mistaken,--the maps of Adricomus, Tirinius, and others, ought to be corrected, which have feigned to, The readers of the eastern interpreters will observe, that Kadesh is rendered by all Rekam, or in a sound very near it. I must have to come to the place where I despair of freeing myself or despair of my own righteousness or despair of ever being righteous in the eyes of God by my own works and my own efforts. The acknowledgment in a creed is all well; but when it comes to be the truth for one's own soul, stamping its value on our communion and also on our ways, men at once retreat back into some "dim religious light," where it is all forgotten and lost, merely owned verbally, but without power for the heart and life. ^d 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? Pray it at midnight and midday. Is this what you read? The law of the sabbath is not given to Christians. Plainly then the savage knows quite well that it is unjustifiable to steal. In advancing to take possession of the world for Christ, we have the encouragement of thinking that he knows precisely to what kind of work he is sending us, and yet promises success. Known thoroughly, in all its parts, peoples, districts, conformation, accessibilities, and inaccessibilities. *Dr. Davidson (Introd. Inquiry is Made, Whether the Doubling it in the Maps is Well Done. God's solution is death to the flesh, crucified with Christ. Now he dwells chiefly on their part in the matter, confessing his own inability to cope with their great increase, which ho touchingly entreats God to swell a thousand times, but withal urges on the rulers to judge righteously. Psalm 138:1-2. (Deuteronomy 1:11 NKJV). 12). Edomites or Moabites or Ammonites, unfeeling and disposed to injure Israel, still God would educate His people in remembering whatever bond of nature there was: if blows came, God would not forget the delinquent. Now recognizing my weakness, I'm crying for power outside of myself. In a certain sense it might be a season too good and deep for joy. God said that He's not gonna deliver them into your hand" and how that they armed themselves anyhow and went up against the hill of the Amorites and were pursued by them. That is the point to do God's will. Israel's stay at the mount was good while it lasted, There was a danger that Israel's stay at the mount might last too long, The conquest of which is commanded by God, Early in the year 1857. It was not then and there that Aaron died, as he alas! Philo of Alexandria and Rabbinic Theology. But one must only expect this from men whose aim is to reduce the inspired writers to their own level, and who think that piety can co-exist with fraud, yea, with fraudulent falsehood about God. For a Jew no doubt there is the law of Moses. This men forget. Deuteronomy is an eminently practical book. (Ad. 40, Moses, after reviewing the recent history of the people, and showing how it reveals Jehovah's love for Israel, earnestly urges upon them the duty of keeping His laws, reminding them of His spirituality and absoluteness. It was not yet Christ manifested, but man under trial of the law and its ordinances and restraints, dealt with as living in the world, and instructed in view of this present life. Thither God brought them to humble them, and by the terrors of the law to prepare them for the land of promise. May my inner and outward actions, attitude, words and motives reflect a heart that loves the Lord with . A desire to obey God and to keep the law of God, consenting that it's good, that's the right way, that's the way I want to live; seeing the divine ideal, being attracted by the divine ideal and desiring, longing after it. Was it not the pettishness of disobedient children, if ever there were such? the relation of the inner motives for the sending of the spies. In the one case there was a remembrance of creation; in this case, of symbolic redemption, the bringing out of Egypt. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: "You have stayed at this mountain long enough. Jehovah was most careful exactly where He had least sympathy. "Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned" "we have sinned against Jehovah: we will go up and fight." In Deuteronomy 11:1-32 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. It reminds them of his gracious acts on their behalf and calls from them a fitting response of covenant loyalty. "The saying pleased me well, and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: and they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eschol, and searched it out. That borders on blasphemy. "But Sihon," it is said, "king of Heshbon, would not let us pass by him: for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. It is not the death of Christ with all its solemn, however blessed, issues. Therefore we can understand it as if He said, When you were in the strange country, when you left it in haste to wander here and there in the wilderness, there were great difficulties and many irregularities which cannot be allowed now. Men have reasoned with great detail, especially in recent years, enquiring how all this could be done in the desert by a people who found it hard enough to pass unscathed themselves, though they had Jehovah their God with them to feed them with angels' bread, and water if need were from the rock. 5-8; 1 Cor. When God commands us to go forward in our Christian course he sets the heavenly Canaan before us for our encouragement. Deuteronomy 1:6-9. . 2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.) vol. The question was, did the present generation about to be brought into the holy land profit by the past? I. This is clearly shown. And when they had situations that were too difficult for them to handle, that Moses would handle those cases. "Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover in any of thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee: but at the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. So, they are words of encouragement as he is recounting that which God has done. Far from being done with, we know from the word of God that He will maintain the sabbatical rest strictly, and enforce it in the days of the kingdom; so that, if a man does not bow to His authority, he will assuredly come under divine judgment: so much does Jehovah make of it in itself, and so much will He make of it for the obedience of others in the day that is coming. A few words on the next few chapters will suffice for the present. We see that what has been remarked is just what is expressed in this verse: "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only," (what exercise of faith was there in that?) This was the substantial meaning of the tithes and other requisitions (ver. i. Rekam, and that Double. They must learn not to seek what God would not give them. The point then for the Jew was the one true God. There are two places noted by the name Rekam in the very bounds of the land,--to wit, the southern and eastern: that is, a double Kadesh. 367.). For edition we have restored the fuller text of the earlier published edition, while retaining a few of the editorial refinements of the Met Tab edition. "Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession." His fame and prolonged obscurity made his enemies anxious for him to again expose himself in their midst. Oh, I'm getting close because I realize now I can't deliver myself. It is not at all a people or a class kept at a distance by intervening priests. The true Israelite does not require to put God to the test. Accordingly the majority of expositors take the record in Exodus for the exact one, supposing that, as Moses was speaking to the people in the latter case, he recited from memory, not from the tables of stone, and therefore there is some variation of terms. The Blessedness and Glory of the Promised Land, The Impartiality of God to be Reflected in the Judges of His People, Moses' speech in the end of the fortieth year, briefly rehearsing the history of God's sending them from Horeb. 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