"Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. ii., pp. Jeremiah, or any other prophet. And Jehovah spake unto me, saying, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. And you came near to me Moses said, and you said, Let's send spies into the land, in order that they might find out which cities we'll be facing and the directions by which we should go into the land ( Deuteronomy 1:21-22 ). THE CHURCH'S DESTINY - to possess the land. Hence the language differs most sensibly even from the joyous scene of blessing of which the feast of weeks was so redolent. 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. Gifted by God (ver. Still it is too solemn to admit of what is so buoyant, which has its own proper exercise. Hence Moses says, "These words Jehovah spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. The place were they were now encamped was in the plain, in the land of Moab (Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 1:5), where they were just ready to enter Canaan, and engage in a war with the Canaanites. Nothing can be more manifest than the moral groundwork which Moses is preparing for all the rest of the book that follows. It is well for persons that they are not to stay long under the law, and the terrors of it, but are directed to Mount Zion; Hebrews 12:18. there is formality enough, and without having written forms, the heart may frame forms of its own, as we may have observed, if not known it in our own experience, without finding fault with other people, For notoriously, in a legal state of mind people are apt to get through the acknowledgment of sin in what they know has grieved the Lord; but even then there is a want of bowing to His will. There is thus a presentation of a faithful God, whose demand was for a faithful people." 9 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the . 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. We're always the one that put the restrictions upon what God can do for us. For instance, a man knows perfectly well that he has no right to steal. It is not then a grouping of types, whatever might be the particular scope and aim of those employed, such as we have seen in distinct forms throughout the books of Exodus, Leviticus, or Numbers; but here all that the Spirit is using, whether it be direct moral application which forms much the larger part of the book, or whether it be a selection of such shadows as fall in with its. Now, the wilderness experiences where I am trying to bring my flesh into conformity to the will of God, and I'm promising God that I'm gonna do better, that I'm not gonna fail next time. The Mosaic Covenant is central in Deuteronomy. viii. His fame and prolonged obscurity made his enemies anxious for him to again expose himself in their midst. This is clearly shown. He was just being led by his own mind. What is meant by a moral law is that which one can pronounce on from within even without a prescription from God. 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. "When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.". I. Our J. It is not to be doubted that the words cited from Deuteronomy were the very best that they were chosen according to divine perfection. Ye have dwelt long enough, c. Exodus 19:1-2 and left it the twentieth of the second month of the second year, so it appears they had continued there nearly a whole year. The truth is that the solemn circumstances appear to recall to the mind of Moses the awful lapse of Israel when "they made the calf which Aaron made," and Levi, of odd perfidious to the stranger for a sister's sake, consecrated themselves to Jehovah in the blood of their idolatrous brethren; and Moses hews at Jehovah's command tables of stone like the first, and put them, written as before, in the ark which he had made. II. But for the Christian a very essential feature of his standing is that he is delivered from the status of man or Israel, and called to Christ and heavenly things. And Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess that thou mayest inherit his land. 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. (6) The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb.--The "Lord our God," "Jehovah our Elohim," is the watchword of the whole book. Could they match with Him? He was a descendant of Aaron, and belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential families among the Jewish merchant-princes of Egypt. Moses himself had the deepest sense of the situation, but in no way as one who distrusted Jehovah, for he had well learned to count on His love. 29.) Praying through Deuteronomy 6:7 . But no, God would not have them to meddle. 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." But the tone, mind, and heart of Moses are nowhere more characteristically apparent than in these his last words to the people of Jehovah whom he loved. Here we find out that the request for the spies actually came from the people and that it seemed good unto Moses. 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. and we have seen the sons of the Anakims there ( Deuteronomy 1:28 ). Pray along these points: Thank Father God for how far He has already brought you. 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. They knew it was not God's will that forty years of wilderness wanderings should lie between Egypt and the Promised Land (Deut. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN. Mark the very fact here set before us: not a single man of the congregation of Jehovah that left Egypt passed into the holy land save two individuals, who identified themselves by faith from the very first with the glory of Jehovah. And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19. A people holy to Jehovah must not eat anything that dies of itself, nor accustom itself to an uncomely act, were it with a dumb and dead kid and the milk of its dam. These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. (Exodus 20:1; Deuteronomy 5:22. 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. He sets Himself against the high places; He will not have them. cxliii. "Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword," the small things as well as great. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; 4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: 5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, 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. To get from the Red Sea into the Promised Land, it was necessary to go through the wilderness, an eleven-day journey, but most of the wilderness experience was illegitimate.Now I feel that the history is a typical history, that there are spiritual analogies to be made to the children of Israel coming out of Egypt passing through the wilderness into the Promised Land. "And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, 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." Again, in Deuteronomy 5:16 two new clauses are supplied, 'and that it may go well with thee,' and 'as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.' They have been camped out at Mount Horeb for about a year. No compulsion was used to the nations outside. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." I said, "Hey, you shut up and get out of here. It is the book which our Lord quotes in His temptations with Satan. It was not merely a sight of God, but One who deigned to take the liveliest and most intimate interest in His people Israel. Again, what can be more simple and appropriate than that Moses at the close should omit the name and counsel of Jethro, and bring the people into greater prominence than himself in the choice of rulers? 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. God wanted to free them from the horrible bondage of Egypt, yet now they are accusing God of hating them.You remember the case of Job, it said in all of these things, that is the loss of his family and his wealth and all, he did not curse God neither did he charge God foolishly. 10. 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. To what were they always inclined? 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. Undoubtedly the gatherings in of the corn and the wine (that is, the harvest and the vintage) are the well known types of God's final dealings: the harvest when He separates the wheat from the chaff, or at any rate from that which is not wheat; and the vintage when He executes unsparing judgment upon the vine of the earth upon all religion that is vain and denies heaven. This he had fully shown in the history. Here then we have all laid bare. Then in Deuteronomy 2:1-37 the law-giver reminds them how they took their weary journey. His Father will take care of him. 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. 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. Verse Deuteronomy 6:5. It is not the tabernacle, nor the priest, not the wilderness, but obeying God as His people in the land. Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed. But nobody knows about the sabbath-day unless Jehovah command it. It is not the Jewish people in the school of Jehovah to manifest what was in their heart, and what He was towards them; but the people strengthened by Jehovah in presence of a power mightier than their own. In Deuteronomy 11:1-32 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. 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. It was to be a real fealty: it was not merely a dogma pure and simple, but to be known as a fact. It is really sort of Moses' final address to the people. This men forget. And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace." So it is that it does not withhold from us the over-heatedness of a Paul, as well as the weakness of a Barnabas; that it tells out the stumbling both of Thomas and of Mark: all is openly communicated for our instruction. Ver. 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. There is the peril of religion becoming a species of enjoyment. Praying through Deuteronomy 31:6. Then follows the appointment, iv. If truth be abandoned, it indicates the power of Satan as the source, and not the true God. I do not mean that there should not be the profoundest feeling of gratitude, and the fullest expression of thanksgiving to God. 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." Taking the passage in this light, and reading the wider truth into it, we get the idea of a land which is: 1. We are to observe the statutes and to do them. There are many, many Christians who have been long enough, and far too long, in the mount, and it would be welt for themselves if they could hear this voice summoning them to go forward. Obedience is the claim. But ye that did cleave unto Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this day." Philo of Alexandria and Rabbinic Theology. 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 ). He wanted to leave them his blessing nay, he wanted them to have the best blessing that God could give them. "but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live." 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. Jehovah their God did not make Himself visible to them by a similitude. May I quickly confess my faults and choose life (to the saving of the soul) and not death. There is no mercy shown in the vintage. That was a tragedy of failure on their part and it was a failure of faith. (f) In the second year and second month, Nu 10:11. - J.O. This fact appears to be of some importance, because notoriously difficulties have been raised, on the score of practicability, as to the various ordinances requiring sacrifices and offerings where the means did not appear. Now Israel had totally failed in their place. 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