Deuteronomy 1:1 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Bible Comments

we might expect to find emphasised in it the lessons of these books. And this we do find.

I. The Divine election of Israel, so prominent in Genesis, we might expect to find emphasised in it the lessons of these books. And this we do find.

I. The Divine election of Israel, is here emphasised. Israel is bidden to remember it again and again,

Deuteronomy 1:1

1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Reda sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.