Deuteronomy 4:39 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. ”

• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Unwilling, as it might seem, to close his discourse with words of terror, Moses makes a last appeal to them in these verses in a different strain. Deuteronomy 4:34 Temptations - Compare De...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  God. Hebrew. ha-elohlm . the God.

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  39. Know therefore this day. He again inculcates what we have lately spoken of, that the glory of the one true God was proved by the miracles, but he does so by way of exhortation. For he de...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them. No JFB commentary on these verses...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Know therefore... and consider. — “Consider,” i.e., reckon (the word for “impute” and “account” in St. Paul’s argument to the Romans). Do not indulge any polytheistic notions regarding the Deity....

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Israel's Peculiar Privileges Deuteronomy 4:32-49 Every argument that love and wisdom, the great past and the miracles of the Exodus could suggest, was brought to bear on the hearts of the chose...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  If we read these verses with an enlightened understanding, and paraphrase them in gospel terms, as they really ought to be read by every awakened and regenerated soul, how precious do the evidences o...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE ONLY GOD ‘Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord He is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath; there is none else,’ etc. Deuteronomy 4:39-40 Mose...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart ,.... Own and acknowledge it now with thy mouth, and lay it up and consider it in thine heart hereafter, as a truth of the greatest importance...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Know therefore this day, and consider [it] in thine heart, that the LORD he [is] God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: [there is] none else. Ver. 39. That the Lord he is God in heaven...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Know and consider it in thy heart From all that thou hast seen, heard, and experienced. That the Lord he is God , &c. Settle it in thy heart that none but the Creator of all things could perfo...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Exhortations and Arguments. B. C. 1451.       1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the stat...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Their Return Is Certain Because Of The Graciousness and Uniqueness of Yahweh ( Deuteronomy 4:30-40 ). When they find themselves in tribulation and these things come on them in the latter days, th...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Deuteronomy 4:39-40 Moses promised the Jews that if they trusted in God, they would be a strong, happy, and prosperous people. On the other hand, he warned them that if they forgot the Lord their...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 4:25-5 Moses enforces the warning against idolatry, by predicting the evil that should come upon the nation through the apostasy of those who should in after times tu...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Appeal Supported by a Reference to God's Kindness

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 28:9 ; 1 Chronicles 29:11 ; 2 Chronicles 20:6 ; Daniel 4:35 ; Deuteronomy 32:29 ; Deuteronomy 4:35 ; Hosea 7:2 ; Isaiah 1:3 ; Isaiah 5:12 ; Joshua 2:11 ; Psalms 115:3 ; Psalm...

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• Deuteronomy 4:39 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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