“ For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. ”
For the LORD thy God [is] a (p) consuming fire, [even] a jealous God. (p) To those that come not to him with love and reverence, but rebel against him.
Second Part of Moses-' First Address. This contains exhortations to obedience from motives of self-interest and of gratitude to Yahweh, and forms an apparent logical unity with Deuteronomy 1:6 to...
a consuming fire. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. Compare Exodus 24:17 ; Hebrews 12:29 . children . sons.
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. Thy God is a consuming fire - They had seen him on the mount as an unconsuming fire, while appearing to Moses, and giving the law; an...
Ver. 24. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire — That is, inflexibly just in punishing the contemners of his law; and who, from the rectitude of his nature, will be as far from letting moral...
Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inher...
First Discourse ( Deuteronomy 1:14 to Deuteronomy 4:43 ) The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the Promi...
The Lord thy God is a consuming fire. — The writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews makes use of this in Deuteronomy 12:29 , to enforce the lessons not of Sinai, but of Pentecost, and of the voice of...
MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1-40 , Deuteronomy 27:1-26 ; Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ; Deuteronomy 29:1-29 ; Deuteronomy 30:1-20 . WITH the twenty-sixth chapter the entirely homogeneous c...
Jehovah “a Jealous God” Deuteronomy 4:15-31 How often Moses repeats, “ take heed. ” We must watch as well as pray and keep our souls diligently. We must specially beware of idols-that is, any...
On the ground of this survey Moser exhorted the people to be obedient, His appeal was based on the greatness of their God and the perfection of His law. Their whole existence as a nation centered aro...
Observe the vast earnestness of the Sacred Preacher in the arguments he adopts to interest the feelings of the people; and how he dwells, again and again, upon the same very powerful motives to induc...
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire ,.... To his enemies; his wrath is like fire to burn up and destroy all that oppose him and break his commands, and especially idolaters; whose sin of all ot...
For the LORD thy God [is] a consuming fire, [even] a jealous God. Ver. 24. For the Lord thy God. ] And should therefore be served truly, that there be no halting; and totally, that there be no hal...
A consuming fire A just and terrible God, who, notwithstanding his special relation to you, will severely punish you, if you provoke him. A jealous God Who, being espoused to you, will be highly...
MOSES INSISTS ON OBEDIENCE (vs.1-14) Because God had already blessed Israel and intended to bless them more greatly still. Moses urges them to "listen to the statutes and judgments" he is teachin...
Exhortations and Arguments. B. C. 1451. 1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the stat...
A consuming fire; a just and terrible God, who, notwithstanding his special relation to thee, will severely punish and destroy thee if thou provokest him by idolatry, or other ways. A jealous God,...
They Are To Remember That Yahweh Is Without Form, And Is A Consuming Fire, And Must Therefore Avoid Making Any Graven Image for Worship Purposes For That Would Be to Adulterate and Misrepresent Yahw...
CRITICAL NOTES .—From the mention of what God had done for Israel, Moses passes to the obedience of the law. They were under deep obligation to keep it, and in doing so, consisted their wisdom, grea...
Deuteronomy 4:2 . Ye shall not add unto the word. This would be to debase revelation, and treat the divine law as a defective production of man, that needed additions and retrenchments. Solon, the...
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. Moses’ discourse 1. In general it...
EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 4:1-5 ADMONITIONS AND EXHORTATIONS . Moses, having presented to the people certain facts in their recent history which had in them a specially animating and enco...
Warning Against Idolatry
1 Corinthians 10:22 ; Deuteronomy 29:20 ; Deuteronomy 32:16 ; Deuteronomy 32:21 ; Deuteronomy 32:22 ; Deuteronomy 6:15 ; Deuteronomy 9:3 ; Exodus 20:5 ; Exodus 24:17 ; Exodus 34:14 ; Hebre...
Parting Words Deuteronomy 4:1-49 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is, perhaps, strange to some that we speak of the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy as "Parting words," yet the whole Book of Deuteronomy cen...
A consuming fire — A just and terrible God, who, notwithstanding his special relation to thee, will severely punish thee, if thou provoke him. A jealous God — Who being espoused to thee, will be hi...