“ And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: ”
These verses would be more properly assigned to the next chapter. They are intended to serve as the announcement and introduction of the address now to be commenced. Deuteronomy 4:44 gives a kind...
this: i.e. which hereafter followeth. The commencement of the new section according to the Structure. children . sons.
44. And this is the Law. This last passage refers to the same thing, viz., that the Law was promulgated anew when the people had now reached the threshold of the promised land, in order that...
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: This is the law which Moses set. This is a preface to the rehearsal of the law, which, with the addition of various explanat...
Exhortations To Obedience This chapter contains the practical part of the discourse. Having briefly rehearsed the experiences of the Israelites in the wilderness up to the present point, Moses clo...
SECOND DISCOURSE. (44-49) These words form an introduction to the second discourse, which occupies the larger portion of the book — from Deuteronomy 5:1 to the end of Deuteronomy 26 . There is...
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...
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...
The Man of GOD is particular in marking down the very spot, where he rehearsed and performed these things for Israel: because the place was truly memorable; for Israel now possessed, as it were, the...
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel. Not the law concerning the cities of refuge, but the law of the ten commands repeated in the following chapter; so Jarchi remarks,...
And this [is] the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: Ver. 44. And this is the law. ] That is, This that followeth in the next chapter, whereunto these verses serve for a preface.
This is the law More particularly and fully expressed in the following chapter, to which these words are an introduction.
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...
41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; 42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past...
Which hath been generally intimated already, but is more particularly and punctually expressed in the following chapter, to which these words are a preface.
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...
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...
Conclusion of the First Address
1 Kings 2:3 ; Deuteronomy 6:17 ; Deuteronomy 6:20 ; Deuteronomy 4:1 ; Psalms 119:5 ; Psalms 119:7
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...
This is the law — More punctually expressed in the following chapter, to which these words are a preface.