Deuteronomy 10:12-22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Deuteronomy 10:12 to Deuteronomy 11:32. Resumes Moses'second address interrupted by the long didactic narrative of Deuteronomy 9:7 b - Deuteronomy 10:11.

Deuteronomy 10:12-22 - Deuteronomy 11. Reasons why Israel should fear and serve Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 10:12. Cf. Micah 6:8.

Deuteronomy 10:16. Physical circumcision implied consecration of the entire man to Yahweh. The verb to circumcise came thus to be used figuratively of the heart (Deuteronomy 2:30 *) as here (so Deuteronomy 30:6; Jeremiah 4:4), of the lips (Exodus 6:12), of the ear (Jeremiah 6:10).

Deuteronomy 10:17. God of gods and Lord of lords: one form of the Heb. superlative, i.e. the greatest God, lord (Deuteronomy 3:24 *). reward: better, bribe (see Deuteronomy 16:19; Deuteronomy 27:25; Exodus 23:8).

Deuteronomy 10:18. Render, securing justice for the orphan and widow and loving the sojourner (see Deuteronomy 1:16 *), etc. The three classes mentioned were specially exposed to injustice through bribery, social influence, etc. They are often, therefore, along with the Levites (Deuteronomy 10:9 *) described as objects of pity and help.

Deuteronomy 10:21. praise: i.e. object of praise (Jeremiah 17:14).

Deuteronomy 10:22. Omit with. The Heb. construction (beth essentiae) implies that they went down as (not with) seventy persons. threescore and ten persons: i.e. all the Israelites in Egypt at the time. In Exodus 1:5 (F) it covers all the descendants of Jacob (including Joseph, his sons etc.). In Genesis 46 (P) the two traditions are combined.

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Deuteronomy 10:12-22

12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.