Deuteronomy 33:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words. ”

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

“The people” are the twelve tribes, not the Gentiles; and his saints refer to God’s chosen people just before spoken of. Compare Deuteronomy 7:18 , Deuteronomy 7:21 ; Exodus 19:6 ; Daniel 7:8-2...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Yea, he loved the people; (c) all his saints [are] in thy hand: and they sat down at (d) thy feet; [every one] shall receive of thy words. (c) Hebrew, his saints, that is, the children of Israel. (...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33. The Blessing of Moses. Of this poem (quite unconnected with the context) the following statements may be made: ( a) It was composed during the prosperous reign of Jeroboam II (786-...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

loved. Hebrew "loveth". Chabab, used only here, and only of Jehovah's love to Israel. hand... feet. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. they sat down. Figure of speech Synecdoche (...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. Yea, he loved the people. (308) If it be preferred to apply this to the Gentiles, the sentence must be thus resolved, “Although He loves all human beings, still His saints are honored wi...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words. Yea, he loved the people - This is the inference which Moses makes f...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 3. Yea, he loved the people — Durell, in agreement with Houbigant, after the Samaritan, renders this verse thus; O loving Father of the people! All the saints are at thy hand; They shall...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Blessing of Moses This chapter contains the last words or 'swan-song' of Moses. Immediately before his death he takes farewell of the people, and blesses each of the tribes in turn, as Jacob h...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Yea, he loved. — The connection appears to be this — “From His right hand went a fire, a law for them (Israel). Loving the peoples also; ( i.e., all who should hereafter become His people) Al...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

(B) THE BLESSING OF MOSES Deuteronomy 33:1-29 Besides the farewell speeches and the farewell song, we have in this chapter yet another closing utterance attributed to Moses. Here, as in the cas...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Blessing of the Chosen People Deuteronomy 33:1-17 The glorious nature of God is the opening theme here. The reference is to the giving of the Law when, amid fire and the mediation of angels...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here we have the record of the final words of Moses to the nation. They also take the form of a song. Often he had set before the people cursing and blessing His last words were of blessing only. Fi...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Sweet and beautiful expression, to denote GOD'S love and care of his people. They are within his grasp; they are held, and upheld by him. And tell me, my brother, if you and I are of his people, and...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE PROTECTING HAND ‘All His saints are in Thy hand.’ Deuteronomy 33:3 The text shows us how elaborately God lays out His whole being as altogether engaged for His own people,—first His hear...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Yea, he loved the people ,.... The people of Israel, of which his giving the law to them in such a glorious manner was an instance, and was a distinguishing blessing which other nations were not fav...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Yea, he loved the people; all his saints [are] in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; [every one] shall receive of thy words. Ver. 3. Yea, he loved the people. ] With a general love, with a c...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He loved the people The tribes of Israel. The sense is, this law, though delivered with fire, and smoke, and thunder, which might seem to portend nothing but hatred and terror, yet in truth was giv...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE BLESSING OF THE TRIBES (vs.1-29) Though Deuteronomy is a book largely of admonition, yet all admonition is finished by the end of Chapter 32:47, and Chapter 33 beautifully closes God's messag...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Moses's Blessing on Israel. B. C. 1451. 1 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses th...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The people, i.e. the tribes of Israel, which are called people, Genesis 48:19 Judges 5:14 Acts 4:27 . The sense is, This law, though delivered with fire, and smoke, and thunder, which might...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:2-3 a ‘And he said, Yahweh came from Sinai, And rose from Seir to them; He shone forth from mount Paran, And he came from the ten thousands of holiness (quodesh), At his...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .—Moses now performs the last great act of life and blesses the tribes of Israel. “The blessing opens with a solemn conclusion of the covenant and giving of the law at Sinai, by which...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:3 Of Israel, as a company of the Lord's saints, Moses says that they are all in God's hand. This was true of the ancient Israel in an important sense, but it is still more fully and...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 33:1 . Moses blessed Israel. Moses, like Jacob, died distinctly blessing the tribes of Israel, and finished his course in a manner worthy of himself. The tribe of Simeon is here omitte...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

This is the blessing wherewith Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death. The blessing of the tribes The many successive “blessings” of Israel were a necessary cons...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION MOSES ' BLESSING . Before ascending Mount Nebo, to take a view of the land he was not permitted to cuter and then to die, Moses took farewell of the people he had so long guided an...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Blessing of Moses. As the aged patriarch Jacob laid his blessing upon his sons in the form of prophecies, so Moses, before being gathered to his people, spoke a prophetic blessing upon the pe...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 4:19 ; 1 Peter 1:5 ; 1 Samuel 2:9 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:6 ; Acts 22:3 ; Colossians 3:3 ; Colossians 3:4 ; Deuteronomy 7:6 ; Deuteronomy 7:7 ; Deuteronomy 7:8 ; Ephesians 2:4 ; Ephesi...
Deuteronomy 33:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The people — The tribes of Israel. The sense is, this law, though delivered with fire and smoke and thunder, which might seem to portend nothing but hatred and terror, yet in truth was given to Isr...

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:3 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 33:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 33:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Deuteronomy 33:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Deuteronomy 33:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 33:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes