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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Deuteronomy
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 215,517 words · 518 reading sections
Deuteronomy 1:1
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Deuteronomy 1:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY This book is sometimes called "Elleh hadebarim", from the words with which it begins; and sometimes by the Jews "Mishneh Torah", the repetition of the law; and so in the Syriac version, with which agrees the Arabic title of it; a…
1,487 wordsSECTION 2Deuteronomy 1:2
Deuteronomy 1:2 Ver. 2. There are eleven days' journey from Horeb, by the way of Mount Seir, to Kadeshbarnea. Not that the Israelites came thither in eleven days from Horeb, for they stayed by the way at Kibrothhattaavah, a whole month at least, and seven days at Hazeroth; but the sense is, that this was the computed …
455 wordsSECTION 3Deuteronomy 1:3
Deuteronomy 1:3 Ver. 3. And it came to pass in the fortieth year,.... That is, of the coming of the children of Israel out of Egypt: in the eleventh month; the month Shebet, as the Targum of Jonathan, which answers to part of January and part of February: in the first day of the month, that Moses spoke unto the chil…
93 wordsSECTION 4Deuteronomy 1:4
Deuteronomy 1:4 Ver. 4. After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon,.... Either Moses, speaking of himself in the third person, or rather the Lord, to whom Moses ascribes the victory; of this king, and his palace, and the slaughter of him, see Nu 21:24, and Og the king of Bashan, which d…
239 wordsSECTION 5Deuteronomy 1:5
Deuteronomy 1:5 Ver. 5. On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab,.... On that side of Jordan in which the land of Moab was, and which with respect to the land of Canaan was beyond Jordan; this the Vulgate Latin version joins to the preceding verse: began Moses to declare this law: to explain it, make it clear and man…
161 wordsSECTION 6Deuteronomy 1:6
Deuteronomy 1:6 Ver. 6. The Lord our God spoke unto us in Horeb,.... The same with Sinai, as Aben Ezra observes; while the Israelites lay encamped near this mountain, the Lord spoke unto them: saying, ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: or near it; for hither they came on the first day of the third month from th…
191 wordsSECTION 7Deuteronomy 1:7
Deuteronomy 1:7 Ver. 7. Turn you and take your journey,.... That is, remove from Horeb, where they were, and proceed on in their journey, in which they had been stopped almost a year: and go to the mount of the Amorites; where they and the Amalekites dwelt, in the south part of the land of Canaan, and which was the w…
255 wordsSECTION 8Deuteronomy 1:8
Deuteronomy 1:8 Ver. 8. Behold, I have set the land before you,.... Described it to them, and set its bounds, as well as had given them a grant of it: go in and possess the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and their seed after them: and which being thus made s…
79 wordsSECTION 9Deuteronomy 1:9
Deuteronomy 1:9 Ver. 9. And I spake unto you at that time,.... About that time; for it was after the rock in Horeb was smitten, and before they encamped at Mount Sinai, that Jethro gave the advice which Moses took, and proceeded on it, as here related; see Ex 18:1 saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone; to ru…
112 wordsSECTION 10Deuteronomy 1:10
Deuteronomy 1:10 Ver. 10. The Lord your God hath multiplied you,.... Which was the reason why he could not bear them, or the government of them was too heavy for him, because they were so numerous, and the cases brought before him to decide were so many: and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multit…
100 wordsSECTION 11Deuteronomy 1:11
Deuteronomy 1:11 Ver. 11. The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are,.... This prayer he made, or this blessing he pronounced on them, to show that he did not envy their increase, nor was any ways uneasy at it, but rejoiced in it, though he gave it as a reason of his not being able t…
89 wordsSECTION 12Deuteronomy 1:12
Deuteronomy 1:12 Ver. 12. How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?] His meaning is, that he could not hear and try all their causes, and determine all their law suits, and decide the strifes and controversies which arose between them; it was too heavy for him, and brought too much …
63 wordsSECTION 13Deuteronomy 1:13
Deuteronomy 1:13 Ver. 13. Take ye wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes,.... Not only whose persons were well known, but their characters and qualifications, for their probity and integrity, for their wisdom and prudence in the management of affairs, for their skill and knowledge in things divine an…
68 wordsSECTION 14Ex 18:21
Ex 18:21 and I will make them rulers over you; the people were allowed to choose their own officers, whom they were to bring to Moses, and present before him, to be invested with their office. A like method was taken in the choice and constitution of deacons in the Christian church, when the secular affairs of it lay …
68 wordsSECTION 15Deuteronomy 1:14
Deuteronomy 1:14 Ver. 14. And ye answered me and said,.... As the speech of Moses to the people is not expressed before, so neither this answer of theirs to him: the thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do; to look out for and present persons to him as before described; this they saw was for their own good …
79 wordsSECTION 16Deuteronomy 1:15
Deuteronomy 1:15 Ver. 15. So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known,.... The principal persons among them, that were remarkable and well known for their wisdom and understanding, whom the people presented to him: and made them heads over you; rulers of them, as follows: captains over thousands, and cap…
4,780 wordsSECTION 17Deuteronomy 2:1
Deuteronomy 2:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 2 In this chapter Moses goes on with his account of the affairs of the people of Israel, and what befell them, how they turned into the wilderness again; but passes over in silence their travels there, till they came to Mount Self, where having been some time they were bid …
412 wordsSECTION 18Deuteronomy 2:2
Deuteronomy 2:2 Ver. 2. And the Lord spake unto me,.... While about Mount Seir: saying; as follows.…
18 wordsSECTION 19Deuteronomy 2:3
Deuteronomy 2:3 Ver. 3. Ye have compassed this mountain long enough,.... It was time to be gone from thence, as from Horeb, De 1:6, turn you northward; from the southern border of Edom towards the land of Canaan, which lay north. It was from Eziongeber in the land of Edom, from whence the Israelites came to Kadesh, w…
79 wordsSECTION 20Deuteronomy 2:4
Deuteronomy 2:4 Ver. 4. And command thou the people,.... Give them a strict charge: saying, ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children or Esau: not through the midst of their country, for that the king of Edom would not admit of, but by or on the border of it: and they shall be afraid of you; les…
130 wordsSECTION 21Deuteronomy 2:5
Deuteronomy 2:5 Ver. 5 Meddle not with them,.... Contend not with them in battle, nor provoke them to it: for I will not give you of their land, no not so much as a foot breadth; or as the sole of a man's foot can tread on, signifying that they should not have the least part of it, not any at all. Jarchi makes mentio…
156 wordsSECTION 22Deuteronomy 2:6
Deuteronomy 2:6 Ver. 6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat,.... That is, if they would, as Aben Ezra observes; for though they had manna daily, yet if they would they might buy other food when they had an opportunity, as they would now have of Edom; but then they were not to take it by force or stealt…
191 wordsSECTION 23Deuteronomy 2:7
Deuteronomy 2:7 Ver. 7. For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thine hands,.... Had increased their cattle and substance, even though in a wilderness: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness; every step they took, and he owned them and prospered them in all things in which they were c…
148 wordsSECTION 24Deuteronomy 2:8
Deuteronomy 2:8 Ver. 8. And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Self,.... Along their coasts, by the borders of their country: through the way of the plain; the wilderness of Zin, where Kadesh was: from Elath and Eziongeber; the two ports on the shore of the Red sea in the land o…
174 wordsSECTION 25Deuteronomy 2:9
Deuteronomy 2:9 Ver. 9. And the Lord said unto me,.... When upon the borders of Moab: distress not the Moabites, neither contend with than in battle; besiege not any of their cities, nor draw them into a battle, or provoke them to fight: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; at least not as yet, t…
175 wordsSECTION 26Deuteronomy 2:10
Deuteronomy 2:10 Ver. 10. The Emims dwelt there in time past,.... We read of them as early as the times of Chedorlaomer, Ge 14:5 when their dwelling was in Kirjathaim, a city which Sihon king of the Amorites took from the Moabites, and which being taken from him, was with others given to the tribe of Reuben, Nu 32:37.…
169 wordsSECTION 27Deuteronomy 2:11
Deuteronomy 2:11 Ver. 11. Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims,.... Because of their bulky size and tall stature; or, "the Rephaim were they accounted, even they as the Anakims;'' they were reckoned Rephaim, a name for giants in early times, even as the Anakims were; see Ge 14:5 but the Moabites called …
104 wordsSECTION 28Deuteronomy 2:12
Deuteronomy 2:12 Ver. 12. The Horims also dwelt in Seir before time,.... Which is the name of a mount, and so of the country, from it; so called from Seir the Horite, who dwelt in it before it was possessed by Esau and his sons; but who the Horim or Horites were, from whence they had their name, is difficult to say; t…
355 wordsSECTION 29Deuteronomy 2:13
Deuteronomy 2:13 Ver. 13. Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered,.... It is called the valley of Zered, Nu 21:12, the word used signifying both a valley and a brook; and it is very probable there were both a valley and a brook of the same name; it must be near Dibongad, since in one place it is said the…
112 wordsSECTION 30Deuteronomy 2:14
Deuteronomy 2:14 Ver. 14. And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea,.... The space of time; or, "the days" {b}; the number of them: until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; that is, from the time that the spies were sent and searched the land, and brought a report of it; for they we…
2,933 wordsSECTION 31Deuteronomy 3:1
Deuteronomy 3:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 3 In this chapter the account is carried on of the conquest of the Amorites by Israel, of Og king of Bashan, and his kingdom, De 3:1, and of the distribution of their country to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh, De 1:12 and then the command to the…
302 wordsSECTION 32Deuteronomy 3:2
Deuteronomy 3:2 Ver. 2. And the Lord said unto me,.... When Og was marching with all his forces against Israel: fear him not, &c; See Gill on "Nu 21:34".…
31 wordsSECTION 33Deuteronomy 3:3
Deuteronomy 3:3 Ver. 3. So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also the king of Bashan, and all his people,.... As well as Sihon king of Heshbon: and we smote him, till none was left to him remaining; or left alive, all were slain with the sword; See Gill on "Nu 21:35".…
57 wordsSECTION 34Deuteronomy 3:4
Deuteronomy 3:4 Ver. 4. And we took all his cities at that time,.... Not only Edrei where the battle was fought, and Ashteroth his capital city, but all the rest in his kingdom: there was not a city which we took not from them; not one stood out, but all surrendered on summons; the number of which follows: three sco…
236 wordsSECTION 35Deuteronomy 3:5
Deuteronomy 3:5 Ver. 5. All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars,.... That is, all the cities in the kingdom of Bashan; and though they were, it hindered not their falling into the hands of the Israelites; and this might serve to encourage them against those fears they were possessed of by the spi…
90 wordsSECTION 36Deuteronomy 3:6
Deuteronomy 3:6 Ver. 6. And we utterly destroyed them,.... Not the cities, but the inhabitants of them: as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon; they did not destroy his cities, for they took them and dwelt in them; but the people that lived there, as follows here: utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of ever…
63 wordsSECTION 37Deuteronomy 3:7
Deuteronomy 3:7 Ver. 7. But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities,.... The oxen and sheep, camels and asses; their gold and silver, and the furniture of their houses; their stores of corn, and of other fruits of the earth, even all their substance of whatsoever kind: we took for a prey to ourselves; made them t…
76 wordsSECTION 38Deuteronomy 3:8
Deuteronomy 3:8 Ver. 8. And we took at that time out of the hands of the two kings of the Amorites,.... Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan; the land that [was] on this side Jordan; where Moses then was, being in the plains of Moab, and was the country beyond Jordan, with respect to the land of Canaan, and w…
123 wordsSECTION 39Deuteronomy 3:9
Deuteronomy 3:9 Ver. 9. Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion,.... Which name it has in Ps 29:6 a name the inhabitants of Sidon gave it, but for what reason it is not easy to say; however, that it was well known to Tyre and Sidon, appears from snow in summer time being brought to the former, as will be hereafter obse…
363 wordsSECTION 40Deuteronomy 3:10
Deuteronomy 3:10 Ver. 10. All the cities of the plain,.... There was a plain by Medeba, and Heshbon and her cities were in a plain, with some others given to the tribe of Reuben, Jos 13:16 and all Gilead; Mount Gilead, and the cities belonging to it, a very fruitful country, half of which fell to the share of the Reu…
175 wordsSECTION 41Deuteronomy 3:11
Deuteronomy 3:11 Ver. 11. For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants,.... The meaning seems to be, either that he was the only one that was left of the race of the giants the Ammonites found when they took possession of this country, De 2:20 or that was left when the Amorites took it from the Ammonit…
559 wordsSECTION 42Deuteronomy 3:12
Deuteronomy 3:12 Ver. 12. And this land, which we possessed at that time,.... Or took possession of, having conquered it; for it still remained in their possession: from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon: on the borders of Moab, from thence as far as Gilead was the land which was taken from Sihon king of Heshbon, De…
102 wordsSECTION 43Deuteronomy 3:13
Deuteronomy 3:13 Ver. 13. And the rest of Gilead,.... The other half of the mount, with the cities belonging to it: and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; see Nu 32:33 all the region of Argob, with all Bashan; the region of Trachonitis, in Bashan; see De 3:4, which was call…
85 wordsSECTION 44Deuteronomy 3:14
Deuteronomy 3:14 Ver. 14. Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob,.... Or Trachonitis; the small towns belonging to Gilead, as in Nu 32:41 unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; these were little kingdoms in Syria, on which the country of Argob bordered, and had kings over them in the time of David,…
87 wordsSECTION 45Deuteronomy 3:15
Deuteronomy 3:15 Ver. 15. And I gave Gilead unto Machir. The son of Manasseh; not to him personally, who cannot be thought to have been living at this time, but to his posterity, to the Machirites; see Nu 32:40.…
41 wordsSECTION 46Deuteronomy 3:16
Deuteronomy 3:16 Ver. 16. And unto the Reubenites, and unto the Gadites,.... The tribes of Reuben and Gad: I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon: see De 3:12 half the valley and the border; or rather half the river, the river Arnon; and so it is rendered "the middle of the river", in Jos 12:2 and so here the …
2,377 wordsSECTION 47Deuteronomy 4:1
Deuteronomy 4:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 4 This chapter contains an exhortation to Israel to keep the commands, statutes, and judgments of God, urged from the superior excellency of them to those of all other nations, De 4:1, from the manner in which they were delivered, out of the midst of fire, by a voice of wor…
604 wordsSECTION 48Deuteronomy 4:2
Deuteronomy 4:2 Ver. 2. Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, nether shall you diminish ought from it,.... Neither make new laws of their own, and join them to the law of God, and set them upon a level with it, or prefer them before it; as the Scribes and Pharisees did in Christ's time, who by their tradit…
208 wordsSECTION 49Deuteronomy 4:3
Deuteronomy 4:3 Ver. 3. Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baalpeor,.... Because of the idolatry the people of Israel fell into by worshipping that idol, being drawn into it by the daughters of Moab and Midian, through the counsel of Balaam, with whom they committed fornication; which led them to the oth…
151 wordsSECTION 50Deuteronomy 4:4
Deuteronomy 4:4 Ver. 4. But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God,.... To the worship of the Lord your God, as the Targum of Jonathan; attended the service of the sanctuary, were observant of the laws of God, and walked in his statutes and judgments; did not apostatize from him by idolatry or otherwise, but kept c…
141 wordsSECTION 51Deuteronomy 4:5
Deuteronomy 4:5 Ver. 5. Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me,.... He had faithfully delivered them, without adding them, or diminishing from them, and had diligently instructed the Israelites in them, had taken pains to lead them into a thorough knowledge and understan…
136 wordsSECTION 52Deuteronomy 4:6
Deuteronomy 4:6 Ver. 6. Keep therefore and do them,..... Observe them, take notice of what is expressed by them, and perform them, both as to matter and manner, as they require: for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations; that is, their wisdom and understanding would appear to other na…
207 wordsSECTION 53Deuteronomy 4:7
Deuteronomy 4:7 Ver. 7 For what nation is there so great,.... Not so much for their number, for they were the fewest of all people; nor for the largeness of their territories, for the land they were going to possess was but a small country; nor for their wealth and riches, and warlike exploits, though they were not co…
335 wordsSECTION 54Deuteronomy 4:8
Deuteronomy 4:8 Ver. 8. And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous,.... Founded in justice and equity, and so agreeable to right reason, and so well calculated and adapted to lead persons in the ways of righteousness and truth, and keep them from doing any injury to each other's p…
179 wordsSECTION 55Deuteronomy 4:9
Deuteronomy 4:9 Ver. 9. Only take heed to thyself,.... To walk according to this law, and not swerve from it: and keep thy soul diligently; from the transgressions and breaches of it: lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen; either the statutes and judgments set before them, and the circumstances of t…
150 wordsSECTION 56Deuteronomy 4:10
Deuteronomy 4:10 Ver. 10. Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord in Horeb,.... Above all things Moses would have them take care not to forget the day the law was given from Mount Sinai, which was so awful and solemn, when they saw the fire, the smoke, the lightning, and heard the thunder and the sound of…
306 wordsSECTION 57Deuteronomy 4:11
Deuteronomy 4:11 Ver. 11. And ye came near and stood under the mountain,.... At the foot of it, in the lower part of the mountain, as the Targum of Jonathan, and agrees with Ex 19:17 and the mountain burnt with fire unto the midst of heaven; the flame and smoke went up into the middle of the air: with darkness, cloud…
135 wordsSECTION 58Deuteronomy 4:12
Deuteronomy 4:12 Ver. 12. And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire,.... For the Lord descended on Mount Sinai in a cloud, in fire, and was in the thick darkness, from whence he delivered out the ten commands: ye heard the voice of the words; distinctly and plainly, not only the sound of them, but the …
112 wordsSECTION 59Deuteronomy 4:13
Deuteronomy 4:13 Ver. 13. And he declared unto you his covenant,.... So the law was called, because it contained, on the part of God, things which he would have done or avoided, to which were annexed promises of long life and happiness in the land he gave them; and they, on their part, agreed to hearken to it, and obe…
144 wordsSECTION 60Deuteronomy 4:14
Deuteronomy 4:14 Ver. 14. And the Lord commanded me at that time,.... When the ten commandments were delivered on Mount Sinai, and Moses was ordered to come up to God in the mount: to teach you statutes and judgments; laws ceremonial and judicial, besides the ten commands given them: that ye may do them in the land …
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Public domain; John Gill (1697–1771). Source item is marked Public Domain on Internet Archive.
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