He said, "How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance or your burdens or your strife? Help me to be courageous in the face of my enemies. With this then most fittingly He begins. Such was the uniform walk of Jesus. In the commandment to keep it Jehovah the God of Israel speaks to this effect: "Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the sabbath of Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work." And so they chose one from each tribe to go in and to spy out the land. Not, indeed, by carnal weapons, as the Israelites were commanded to conquer Canaan, nor yet by the destruction of those against whom we war; but by the nobler weapons of the truth, and by seeking men's salvation. Praying through Deuteronomy 6:7 . 8-10. So you appointed the seventy to be rulers over them, the chief men and he charged them to hear the causes of the people and to judge among the people. Here we find out that the request for the spies actually came from the people and that it seemed good unto Moses. See Romans 8:15. Which the Holy Scripture called "The hill-country of Judah," Joshua 21:11; Luke 1:39. "Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name." So he's getting up there now, about a hundred and twenty years old. Gifted by God (ver. Now therefore, hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. In Deuteronomy 9:1-29 another topic is prominent. "Jehovah heard the voice of your words and was wroth, and sware saying, Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land which I sware to give unto your fathers.". 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 . "The importance of history has two focal points: (a) there is the covenant tradition of promise, from Abraham to Moses; (b) there is the experience of God in history working out in deed the content of the promise. The readers of the eastern interpreters will observe, that Kadesh is rendered by all Rekam, or in a sound very near it. John Edgar McFadyenIntroduction to the Old Testament. Next follows the account of their fear before God's solemn words, their promise to obey, and the mediatorial place which the people desired and God sanctioned for Moses. The object is quite different. And some of them were slain because they presumed to go without the presence of God. 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. They had been bondmen themselves; and if they had been delivered of God, they should cultivate the same spirit as He had shown. 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. Now wherein lay this fitness not only in the words that were cited, but in the particular book from which they were extracted? Hence, while he fails not to show that Jehovah was with himself, and how Joshua was to displace him, he does not hesitate to set before all the story of his own shame, so to speak. Is this what you read? O. T. i. "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. Here we see that God had a most deliberate choice in the smallest matters as well as in the greatest; but He begins with what most nearly touches His presence. 9. There may be lands where everything morally is at the lowest point, and where therefore a wrong is less severely estimated than elsewhere. So the commandment of God; "you've been here long enough, you've circled this mountain long enough". This is precisely what does put man to the proof morally. They are each of them seeking supremacy. 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. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN. I am persuaded that above all the Christian, who has a still nearer relationship with God, is the very last person who ought to exercise a choice in self-will. Consequently it is not an isolated fact that they wished spies, or that Jehovah acceded to their desire to have them (this we have already seen), but here "Ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come." The obedience spoken of in this chapter, which called every male of Israel up to remember Jehovah at these three feasts, gathered them to the place which Jehovah their God would choose. "Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of Egypt." "I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession." God says, then, that enough time had been spent in one place; (1) for, before they left it, an entire year had passed away there. Certainly they could not; this Jehovah spreads in the most forcible manner before His people for their cheer and stay. It was not God's desire that they perish in the wilderness. We know how these traditions linger among men, particularly in the East. This is the grand pith of the chapter as it appears to me. How good is the Lord! 6.The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb. Others might be optional, but these feasts were obligatory. They were "a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead." To the end of the chapter follow the most earnest warnings, as well as bright promises: disobedience or obedience would be the turning point in the land. What shall we wear?These kinds of things, and in that we differ nothing from the heathen, from the animals. Could they match with Him? This claim, based on God's act of bringing Israel out of enslavement in Egypt, is also highlighted at the end of this chapter (6:20-25 . Was this their trust? The same principle is steadily pursued on all sides. Jehovah went along with them; and of course the faithful turned back just as much as the unfaithful. It was not merely a sight of God, but One who deigned to take the liveliest and most intimate interest in His people Israel. III. 7). Even in the very witness of domestic blessing there must be the largeness of heart that goes out to those who have no friends to care for them. For he had himself told them to go up into the land; but they begged spies to search it first. "The good that I would I do not. 3. Moses reflected on the past mainly as Israels history stands revealed in the earlier books of the Pentateuch. (Road from Bethany and Jerusalem. Yet he discourses not to them concerning military affairs, the arts and stratagems of war, but concerning their duty to God; for, if they kept themselves in his fear and favour, he would secure to them the conquest of the land: their religion would be their best policy. 2. As the epithet applied to God, "Jehovah our God," presupposes the reception of Israel into covenant with Jehovah, which took place at Sinai, so the words, "ye have dwelt long enough at this mountain," imply that the purpose for which Israel was taken to Horeb had been answered, i.e., that they had been furnished with the laws and ordinances requisite for the fulfilment of the covenant, and could now remove to Canaan to take possession of the promised land. They were tried after this by another case of forbearance. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." 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. Psalm 42 It reinforces his earlier exhortations in Deuteronomy 7:12-15 and 28:2-12. The "Lord our God," "Jehovah our Elohim," is the watchword of the whole book. And Jehovah spake unto me, saying, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. 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? 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. viii. Man must not presume to choose. We however are not under law but grace. This seems to me put to the test in the question of the land of Edom. Philo of Alexandria and Rabbinic Theology. I. Deuteronomy has a character of its own totally distinct from that of its predecessors, as has been already pointed out and will appear more fully. And here the people were making this blasphemous accusation; "because God hates us, he brought us out here". But God wants us to not be governed by the flesh but to be governed by the spirit; and thus, there is this spiritual warfare seeking the dominancy in your life. Then the bitter consequences came. 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. I have called it therefore an abstract typical system; for the value of it does not at all depend on the fidelity of the people to it. Ver. They are cardinal elements of the teaching of the book and show that, as Baly has said, Palestine was, in fact, the Chosen Land for the Chosen People; not, it should be noticed, chosen by them, but chosen for them (p. Hence, if darkness had not veiled their eyes, they would have seen that the latter clause of Deuteronomy 5:12 cited could not be in Exodus, and that its existence in Deuteronomy proves that we have here a grave and instructive reference to the commandments formally given in the second book of Moses. 4; iv. I`m blessed relationally, interpersonally, I am BLESSED, I am BLESSED! In this case let us see the principles of Jehovah's discipline. ), "2 Notwithstanding such express declaration, the following diversities occur. "On comparing the decalogue as recorded inExodus 20:2-17; Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21, it will be observed, "1. Moses began his recollections of the journey by reminding the people that their coming possession of Canaan was solely because of Gods grace, not because of any virtue in them (1:1-8).Only through Gods mercy had they grown into a strong and contented people who enjoyed the blessing (rare among ancient races) of just, impartial and humanitarian government (9-18). The Mosaic Covenant is central in Deuteronomy. We may without difficulty see the admirable appropriateness of such an introduction. 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? "Can you call Him Father?" The offspring of your herds and flocks. Now it was God's desire all along to bring them into the land. It appears to be a fresh discourse to a certain extent. The same with Sinai, as Aben Ezra observes; while the Israelites lay encamped near this mountain, the Lord spoke unto them: saying, ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: or near it; for hither they came on the first day of the third month from their departure out of Egypt, and they did not remove from thence until the twentieth day of the second month in the second year, Exodus 19:1 so that they were here a year wanting ten days; in which space of time the law was given them, the tabernacle and all things appertaining to it were made by them, rulers both ecclesiastical and civil were appointed over them, and they were numbered and marshalled in order under four standards, and so ready to march; and all this being done, they must stay no longer, but set forward for the land of Canaan. Ver. (Exodus 20:1; Deuteronomy 5:22. The point urged here is, that when they came and stood, as far as any then could stand, in the presence of God, they had seen no similitude of Jehovah. *Nothing can be weaker than the harping on the phrase "the priests the Levites," as in the writings of Davidson and Colenso (following the superficial scepticism of foreign authors, who themselves followed the old Deists of our own country). I do not dwell on this. Pray it during the day too. It is pentecost. (Ad. All this is made to converge on the children. Gods guidance from Sinai to Kadesh 1:6-46. 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. He could have cited from any other, had any other been in all respects so suitable to the occasion. It was not necessarily, I conceive, because there were no words elsewhere admirably adapted to meet the case. "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. "Virtually all of Palestine and Syria are included in these terms [in Deuteronomy 1:7], an area larger than Israel ever possessed in fact, even during the reigns of David and Solomon." "Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. They knew it was not God's will that forty years of wilderness wanderings should lie between Egypt and the Promised Land (Deut. What have I to ask beside? He might and would give it to them, but still He always kept His place. They would not go up when Jehovah bid them, and when He commanded them to turn back, they wished to go forward. This was a truth which Israel was most prone to disregard. Thus does dying Jacob, in announcing Ernst Wilhelm HengstenbergChristology of the Old Testament, DeuteronomyOwing to the comparatively loose nature of the connection between consecutive passages in the legislative section, it is difficult to present an adequate summary of the book of Deuteronomy. The word Deuteronomy means the second law. The reason is obvious. They must learn not to seek what God would not give them. 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? They knew no reason why weary wastes of disappointing years should stretch between Bethel and Peniel, between the Cross and Pentecost. Setting up other gods in the wilderness. 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). They possess that inimitable solemnity which cannot be so much uttered in words as felt in the general bearing of the book. Of Kadesh, or Rekam, in the south part, there is no doubt. Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. - 1 Timothy 2:3-5. Help me reach greater heights. They have been camped out at Mount Horeb for about a year. It did not alter their duty, if the antecedent history of Moab and Ammon, just as much as that of Esau, was far from good. They were only tenants, and had to pay Him rent. Behold I have set the land before you,Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 1:8. Owing to the comparatively loose nature of the connection between consecutive passages in the legislative section, it is difficult to present an adequate summary of the book of Deuteronomy. So these are the words which Moses spake unto all of Israel on the side of Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea ( Deuteronomy 1:1 ). Mark how very strikingly this is shown. In the delight of His people He delights. 2. At the same time Moses, though well aware of this, reminds them of the real source of their misery, and of the judgment that had fallen on them from God. Rekam, and that Double. Those who persist in hardening themselves must indeed be destroyed; but not by us. 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 Alfred EdersheimThe Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, The Blessing of Jacob Upon Judah. But the same duty abides for them. The conquest of which is commanded by God. And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day." It had more of the family character; but a beautiful feature is connected with it: "And the Levite (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee), and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." What a horrible thing, what a horrible thing to say about God and against God; God hates us. and all this kind of stuff.Well, it's obvious God didn't lead him. Og the king came out, and as with Heshbon, so with Bashan. the relation of the inner motives for the sending of the spies. Is not this very notable? Temple Cleansed. 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. The book of Deuteronomy discloses it. THE CHURCH'S DUTY - to obey her Lord, and go forward at once to this great work. These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. Deuteronomy 1:1-46 lets us see the end of disobedience; Deuteronomy 2:1-37; Deuteronomy 2:1-37; Deuteronomy 3:1-29 give us to know as clearly the result of obedience. saying, ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: or near it; for hither they came on the first day of the third month from their departure out of Egypt, and they did not remove from thence until the twentieth day of the second month in the second year, Exodus 19:1 so that they were here a year wanting ten days; in which space of time the law was given them, the tabernacle and all things appertaining to it were made by them, rulers both ecclesiastical and civil were appointed over them, and they were numbered and marshalled in order under four standards, and so ready to march; and all this being done, they must stay no longer, but set forward for the land of Canaan. 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