In the first section, i.-iv. The first chapter takes cognizance of themselves; the second chapter puts them to the test in the presence of other people. Rebuilding the Temple (Ezra 1:1-6:22) Bible Commentary / Produced by TOW Project The Book of Ezra begins with a decree from King Cyrus of Persia, allowing the Jews to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple that had been destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BC (Ezra 1:2-4). Deuteronomy 1:6-9: Pulpit Commentary Homiletics. 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. Kadesh. 367.). 11). To hear someone, you know, making all these accusations against God, horrible things, it's tragic. "What is the mountainous country of Judea? God must and does choose for Himself a simple yet most important consideration (ver. 4; Isa. Nothing of the sort. Not so. O. T. i. I pray for the younger generation that are surrounded by increasing attacks on the Word of God. There was a danger that Israel's stay at the mount might last too long. Moses began his recital of Israels history at Horeb (Sinai) because this is where Yahweh adopted the nation by making the Mosaic Covenant with her. Obedience is the real spring of blessing, as disobedience is the sure pathway of ruin. Deuteronomy 7:1-26 one may sum up in a very few words. Thus we know for certain that the most fundamental requirement of all, the Levitical ritual, was not practised; and if they did not prove faithful in that which was most urgent as well as least difficult in point of means for executing it, we can hardly suppose that they carried out their obedience in what was surrounded with immense if not insuperable obstacles. Now the life of the spirit begins with the death of the old nature, the old man, which is the position that we must take by faith. Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents, in the fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and the cloud by day ( Deuteronomy 1:33 ). We luxuriate in retired communion, in restful fellowship with God, in converse with fellow-believers, in Church ordinances; and we think how sweet it would be if this could always last. Numbers 13:1-33 gives the fact when God warranted Moses to send the spies; Deuteronomy supplies the motives which wrought in the people to desire them. If God had held to the terms of that covenant, never could the people have found their way into Canaan; but God was pleased to bring in fresh terms by a way which will be shown before we have done with this sketch of Deuteronomy; and it was simply and solely because of those fresh terms of mercy which God Himself brought in of His own grace that Israel entered there. ". Not that this made the smallest cloud between Master and servant. And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land; no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession." "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. God appointed judges (Deuteronomy 1:16) to help Moses carry the burden of legal decisions that resulted from the giving of the Law. Posted 11:47 pm by & filed under can you fly with pericarditis. However, this was not the promised Land. And as for the children of Ammon, they too had passed through similar experience. Times we know when the sense of what we have been, of what we are, and of God's putting all our evil away for ever by the death of His own Son, is too deep for joy if not for tears. pt. They have been camped out at Mount Horeb for about a year. It was not God's desire that they perish in the wilderness. It is the king's mountain." Such is the fertile topic which we find throughout the book. [Note: C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Pentateuch, 3:284.] "The good that I would I do not. So Paul speaks of this frustration, "Oh wretched man that I am. Forever and ever. 6 The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain. They were a people brought into relationship with God, and the object of His words was to guard them from practical inconsistency with that relationship. This is the meaning of it, and such is precisely the path of duty. Taking the passage in this light, and reading the wider truth into it, we get the idea of a land which is: 1. What a horrible thing, what a horrible thing to say about God and against God; God hates us. A lion's whelp is Judah; from the prey, my son, thou goest up; he stoopeth down, he coucheth as a lion, and as a full-grown lion, who shall rouse him up? Gods guidance from Sinai to Kadesh 1:6-46. Or, if the cognate clause used in both books, 'that God wrote them on two tables of stone,' be not literally pressed in one case, there is no necessity for doing so in the other. It is well to remark here that verse 24 is exactly parallel with verse 13; that it is not Moses in verse 13, but Jehovah who commands to "rise up," etc., in both; and that verses 10-12 are a parenthesis of instructive past history for moral profit like verses 20-23. iv. 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 just as characteristic a truth for us as the one Jehovah was for a Jew. It was not then and there that Aaron died, as he alas! The mount of blessing and the mount of curse were there on the other side Jordan. The date of this sermon which Moses preached to the people of Israel. Then follows the appointment, iv. They are each of them seeking supremacy. But then Moses reminds them how that they got together and said, "Oh, we've sinned against God. The land was straight before them, and they might, as far as that was concerned, have gone in and taken possession of it at once. The truth is that the difference is due to moral development of Israel according to Jehovah's wisdom on the eve of introducing His people into the land, and the more settled and social habits He would have them cultivate there. His brother was the political head of that community in Alexandria, and he himself on one occasion represented his co-religionists, Although no creature can define what God is, because he is incomprehensible (Psal. NOTE: This edition of this sermon is taken from an earlier published edition of Spurgeon's 1857 message. They had marched round to the eastern side of the Jordan; they were now on that border of the land, after God's long-continued process of dealing with them in the wilderness had come to its full measure. This is a benigner method of conquest, and it will prove successful if we advance with faith and courage. 45-48. And be Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy Scripture, Philo of Alexandria, the Rabbis, and the Gospels - the Final Development of Hellenism in Its Relation to Rabbinism and the Gospel According to St. John. It is strange how little we know of the personal history of the greatest of uninspired Jewish writers of old, though he occupied so prominent a position in his time. DAY 6 PRAYER POINTS. So, all of these things transpired in Deuteronomy, as far as Moses was concerned, in the last forty days of his life; his final exhortations to the people prior to their crossing and entering into the land. 8 "You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 6 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I do not envy them the thought that God has not revealed His mind about what is nearest to Himself, and what most of all is bound up with His glory! Sinai "Horeb" almost exclusively in this book, ". Here then they are called to action. The events in this section of verses took place before Israel left Horeb. There must be times of getting, of learning, of consulting for one's own edification, else it will go hard with us in the work and battle of life. Deuteronomy 4:1. "Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from among you. The Church, as one with Christ, shares in his kingdom, and shall yet inherit the whole earth. For instance, as they must not trifle with blood, because it belonged to God (Deuteronomy 12:16-25), the dreamer must be guarded against a dream (Deuteronomy 13:1-5). And this characterizes the book of Deuteronomy. It appears to be a fresh discourse to a certain extent. But Satan as usual tampered with the plain written word, alike with its letter and its spirit; for after "to keep thee" he omitted "in all thy ways." Every part of my life is BLESSED! We know well how the family is apt to trench on generous feeling, and how it is apt to shut itself up to no more or better than a refined selfishness. "And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep and do them." In other words, he is saying that God went before you through the wilderness to search for the best place for you to pitch your tent and then led you by the fire and by the cloud.Oh, if we only realized how all encompassing the work of God is that surrounds our lives. They were to be guided simply not by what Jehovah had done in providence by Ammon, Moab, or Esau, but by His will as to themselves. But the same duty abides for them. Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. Now wherein lay this fitness not only in the words that were cited, but in the particular book from which they were extracted? I have no hesitation in subscribing the opinion that our Lord Jesus chose them not only because they were in themselves exactly such as met and confronted Satan's temptations perfectly, but because there was a moral suitability in the fact that they were the words addressed to the people when ruin had already come in when nothing but the grace of God was afresh appealing to them before they were brought into the holy land. For although he may allow himself a dispensation to take from others, let a man steal from him, and it will soon be seen whether he does not condemn the wrong. He quotes accordinglyPsalms 91:1-16; Psalms 91:1-16, intimating to Jesus that, if He were the Son of God, all He had to do was to throw Himself from the pinnacle of the temple; and all must endorse His claims. (1) These are the words. A Summons To Advance . It is long since the oracle declared that God had given Christ the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession (Psalm 2:8). "These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which Jehovah God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth." 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. i. ^d 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? Temple Cleansed. 226-228.) Above all the prime object is to press obedience on the people of God, but the obedience of a people who had already found what it was to have utterly broken down on their own assumed responsibility. were then offered but of a vast body of systematically-ordered teaching by types. And I'm making all of these vows and I'm doing my best to bring my flesh into conformity to God and to God's will, but I find this perverse law that Paul found working. "Hear, O Israel." Many of them did not see the miracle of the Red Sea being parted. Boy, what a horrible thing to say.So, the people were discouraged and they said, The people are greater and taller than we are; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and we have seen the sons of the Anakims ( Deuteronomy 1:28 ). 41-43--here irrelevant (cf. Verse Deuteronomy 6:5. Then comes out another instance. Thus then the circumstances of Moses, as well as of the people, were precisely those suited to impress the lesson of obedience. The intercession of Moses prevailed so far for his brother and the people, that the one lived till near the end of the wanderings in the desert, and the others, instead of perishing as a whole at once, lived to take their journey from a land of wells (Beeroth) to Mosera where Aaron died at Mount Hor, and thence to Gudgodah, and to Jotbath, "a land of rivers of waters:" such was the patient goodness of God to both, as the long interval made the more marked.*. The essential revelation of God to us is the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost the Father displayed by the Son, and made known by the Spirit. 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. What shall we drink? ^b 12 And ^a 18 Now ^b on the morrow [on the Monday following the triumphal entry], ^a in the morning ^b when they were come out from Bethany, ^a as he returned to the city [Jerusalem], he hungered. 39; vi. 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." And be. It was otherwise with Mahomet. Its moral turns on this the only possible way of maintaining relationship with God, namely, obedience; what the nature of that obedience is, and how it is modified; how God graciously takes into account the weakness of those brought into this relationship, and how He provides for His own glory in it. 4; iv. These seven canons were next expanded by R. Ishmael (in the first century) into thirteen, by the analysis of one of them (the 5th) into six, and the addition of this sound exegetical rule, that where two, Ver. This he tried to conceal from One, all whose ways were obedience, venturing to insinuate what a noble demonstration of His Messiahship it would be. (The Pent. It was not merely a sight of God, but One who deigned to take the liveliest and most intimate interest in His people Israel. 2. But God will lift you to the highest level you will let him. And Israel bow to the will of their God. Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh "hereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto Jehovah thy God, according as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son." It is a different thing however with the book of Deuteronomy; and this was my reason for remarking it at this point. 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. With this then most fittingly He begins. Jehovah your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. Here then we have all laid bare. I must despair of all of these self-improvement programs and I must cry out for help outside of myself, for therein is the power of the spirit manifested. If we have seen the object of all this part of Deuteronomy to be the enforcement of obedience, there is nothing which maintains obedience so much as redemption; and if that were the case when it was only an outward deliverance, how much more when it is eternal? God had laid it out and said, "Here it is. This then is the leading truth of Deuteronomy. The trip from Egypt to Sinai was only preparation for the giving of the covenant. 17; 1 Kings, "What is the mountainous country of Judea? This was a lesson for Israel of prime moment. This was their real object. Listen, God'll take you all the way if you'll just believe Him and trust Him for it. We can all see how very bad it was in Israel; but do we feel that it is still worse in the Christian? It was not in His mind to offer men His law or the sword. For a Jew no doubt there is the law of Moses. They possess that inimitable solemnity which cannot be so much uttered in words as felt in the general bearing of the book. We are also shown the astonishing patience of Jehovah, and with that which might be difficult to understand if we did not look to the moral scope of the book the destruction of the first tables, the writing out of fresh ones, and the place in which they were to be kept. Here we find out that the request for the spies actually came from the people and that it seemed good unto Moses. If we have," &c. In the same sceptical spirit follows Dr. Colenso. 16); yet it has pleased his majesty to reveal himself to us in his word, so far as our weak capacity can best conceive him. And there in the wilderness he speaks of the Lord your God. i. For although there were flocks and herds led into the wilderness with the children of Israel at the command of Jehovah, and they may have added more from enemies they conquered, the fact just now referred to meets and removes a host of objections raised about it, and proves that the nature of these ordinances has not been understood. In Deuteronomy 6:1-9, . The LORD our God spake unto you in Horeb, saying, You have dwelt long enough in this mount: Turn, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, [and so forth] and take the land that I have promised. But you are the one that puts the limitations on what God wants to do. (I stood between Jehovah and you at that time, to show you the word of Jehovah: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the Mount.)" The true Israelite does not require to put God to the test. And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; 20. "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. 94.]. Thank Him for bringing you through the land of your [proverbial] enemies, for your enemies stood between you and the Promised Landand now you are that much closer to crossing over into the Promised Land. I do not dwell on this. 6. Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God: and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us." They could take possession of no lands whatever of their own will. W. McGarveyThe Four-Fold Gospel, Moses and his Writings[Illustration: (drop cap W) Clay letter tablet of Moses' time.] 29.) We suppose that the record in Exodus is the older one. "Hearken" and "do," that ye may "live" and "possess.". "Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. But nobody knows about the sabbath-day unless Jehovah command it. This is the preamble to the recitation of the law in Deuteronomy, and includes the text of "the Shema," what has become the central prayer of Judaism, and which Jesus identifies as the greatest commandment in Matthew 22:36 and Mark 12:29-30. 41-43--here irrelevant (cf. Shake it Up De 1:6 "The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain. However Judea, here and there, doth swell out much with mountains, yet its chief swelling appears in that broad back of mountains, that runs from the utmost southern cost as far as Hebron, and almost as Jerusalem itself. "( Romans 6:6 ) Paul the apostle said, "I am crucified with Christ" ( Galatians 2:20 ). iii. 10. Why should they not rejoice? "Because God hates us he brought us out here to kill us in the wilderness", when in reality God loved them and wanted to give them a land that they might dwell in, that it might be their land. 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