“ Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; ”
Deuteronomy 11. Continues the exhortation to love and obey Yahweh, giving motives and promises and pointing out the consequence of disobedience. Deuteronomy 11:2-7 . Read (adding one Heb. conso...
Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.
26. Behold, I set before you this day. He now embraces the two points at once, viz., that they would be blessed if they earnestly apply themselves to the keeping of the Law, and cursed, if th...
DISCOURSE: 204 THE GREAT ALTERNATIVE Deuteronomy 11:26-28 . Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; a blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I comman...
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; Behold, I set before you - a blessing and a curse - If God had not put it in the power of this people either to obey or disobey; if they had...
Ver. 26. A blessing and a curse — Concerning this blessing and curse, and its remarkable completion in the history of the Jews, we shall have occasion to speak more fully when we come to the 28t...
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse - (see the note at Deuteronomy 27:11 .)
Practical Exhortations (concluded) Some injunctions to obedience, with the blessing it entails, and the curse that follows disobedience.
Behold. — Another of the Jewish divisions of Deuteronomy begins here. A blessing and a curse. — Literally, blessing and cursing — the blessing if ye obey, and the curse if ye do not.
ISRAEL'S ELECTION, AND MOTIVES FOR FAITHFULNESS Deuteronomy 9:1-29 ; Deuteronomy 10:1-22 ; Deuteronomy 11:1-32 THE remaining Chapter s of this special introduction to the statement of the act...
the Blessing and the Curse Deuteronomy 11:18-32 Never in this world do we reach a position from which it is impossible to fall away. The dew and the rain of God's blessing are contingent on obe...
As Moses concluded his great call to the people to the pathway of obedience, he reminded them what varied experiences they had had from which they knew the nature of the government and power of God....
It is truly refreshing to attend to the practical exhortation which Moses makes, from what he had before said on this interesting subject, if interpreted upon gospel principles. There is indeed a ble...
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse ,.... Meaning the law of God, and the statutes, judgments, and commandments of it; which, if obeyed, blessings would be bestowed upon them; b...
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; Ver. 26. A blessing and a curse. ] With the way to either, that if ye miscarry ye may have none to blame but yourselves. For oft it falls...
I set before you I propose them to your consideration and your choice. So that if a curse should be your portion, instead of a blessing, and you should be in a calamitous and miserable, and not in...
SOWING AND REAPING (vs.1-32) This chapter emphasizes the results of obedience in contrast to the consequences of disobedience. It begins with the commandment to love the Lord their God, which of...
The Blessing and the Curse. B. C. 1451. 26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing...
I propose them to your minds and to your choice.
Blessing and Cursing ( Deuteronomy 11:26-32 ). Most suzerainty treaties and some law codes had cursings against those who disobeyed their requirements, and many had both blessings and cursings. T...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Deuteronomy 11:1-12 develops more fully the other features of Divine Requirements, Deuteronomy 10:12 . Love must be seen in perpetual observance of commands. Keep , Leviticus 8:...
Deuteronomy 11:10 . Water it with thy foot. Egypt was watered periodically by the overflowing of the Nile; and the husbandman, following the retiring waters, sowed his seed. When the droughty seas...
A blessing and a curse. Two mountains Mount Ebal, we are told, “is a barren, stony, and arid crag”; so would God “smite the apostates with barrenness, hunger, and misery.” Gerizim was “covered...
EXPOSITION Moses here renews his exhortation to obedience, enforced by regard to their experience of God's dealings with them in Egypt and in the wilderness, and by consideration of God's promis...
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse, having told them what the result of obedience and of disobedience would be, he gives them their own choice, he wants them to make their own d...
Deuteronomy 30:1 ; Deuteronomy 30:15-20 ; Galatians 3:10 ; Galatians 3:13 ; Galatians 3:14
I set before you — I propose them to your choice.