PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Deuteronomy
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 215,517 words · 518 reading sections
Deuteronomy 4:15
Deuteronomy 4:15 Ver. 15. Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves,.... As to keep all the laws given them, so particularly to avoid idolatry: for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire; and therefore, as they had nothing that directed and led them, …
80 wordsSECTION 62Deuteronomy 4:16
Deuteronomy 4:16 Ver. 16. Lest ye corrupt yourselves,.... And not themselves only, but the word and worship of God, by idolatry, than which nothing is more corrupting and defiling, nor more abominable to God: and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure; a graven image, in the likeness of any figure, an …
135 wordsSECTION 63Deuteronomy 4:17
Deuteronomy 4:17 Ver. 17. The likeness of any beast that is on the earth,.... As there are scarce any but the likeness of them has been made and worshipped, or the creatures themselves, as the ox by the Egyptians, the sheep by the Thebans, the goat by the Mendesians, and others by different people: the likeness of an…
89 wordsSECTION 64Deuteronomy 4:18
Deuteronomy 4:18 Ver. 18. The likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground,.... As serpents by many; and indeed that creature is introduced into almost all the idolatries of the Heathens, which seems to take its rise from the serpent Satan made use of to deceive our first parents: the likeness of any fish that is…
91 wordsSECTION 65Deuteronomy 4:19
Deuteronomy 4:19 Ver. 19. And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven,.... The starry heaven, which to do in itself is not sinful; and may be lawfully and commendably done, to raise admiration at the wonderful works of God in them, and lead to adore the author of them: but if not guarded against may be ensnaring: an…
4,720 wordsSECTION 66Deuteronomy 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 67Deuteronomy 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 68Deuteronomy 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 69Deuteronomy 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 70Deuteronomy 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 71Deuteronomy 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 72Deuteronomy 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 73Deuteronomy 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 74Deuteronomy 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 75Deuteronomy 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 76Deuteronomy 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 77Deuteronomy 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 78Deuteronomy 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 79Deuteronomy 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 …
155 wordsSECTION 80Deuteronomy 4:15
Deuteronomy 4:15 Ver. 15. Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves,.... As to keep all the laws given them, so particularly to avoid idolatry: for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire; and therefore, as they had nothing that directed and led them, …
80 wordsSECTION 81Deuteronomy 4:16
Deuteronomy 4:16 Ver. 16. Lest ye corrupt yourselves,.... And not themselves only, but the word and worship of God, by idolatry, than which nothing is more corrupting and defiling, nor more abominable to God: and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure; a graven image, in the likeness of any figure, an …
135 wordsSECTION 82Deuteronomy 4:17
Deuteronomy 4:17 Ver. 17. The likeness of any beast that is on the earth,.... As there are scarce any but the likeness of them has been made and worshipped, or the creatures themselves, as the ox by the Egyptians, the sheep by the Thebans, the goat by the Mendesians, and others by different people: the likeness of an…
89 wordsSECTION 83Deuteronomy 4:18
Deuteronomy 4:18 Ver. 18. The likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground,.... As serpents by many; and indeed that creature is introduced into almost all the idolatries of the Heathens, which seems to take its rise from the serpent Satan made use of to deceive our first parents: the likeness of any fish that is…
91 wordsSECTION 84Deuteronomy 4:19
Deuteronomy 4:19 Ver. 19. And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven,.... The starry heaven, which to do in itself is not sinful; and may be lawfully and commendably done, to raise admiration at the wonderful works of God in them, and lead to adore the author of them: but if not guarded against may be ensnaring: an…
4,720 wordsSECTION 85Deuteronomy 6:1
Deuteronomy 6:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 6 In this chapter Moses proceeds on in his exhortations to the people of Israel, to attend to the commandments of God, that it might be well with them, De 6:1, and begins with a principal and fundamental article of religion, which deserved their first and chief regard, the …
448 wordsSECTION 86Deuteronomy 6:2
Deuteronomy 6:2 Ver. 2. That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God,.... Being taught to know the greatness of his being, and the nature of his mind and will, and the manner of his worship; and not with a slavish fear, but with a filial one, a reverential affection for God; being instructed in their duty, as of children,…
215 wordsSECTION 87Deuteronomy 6:3
Deuteronomy 6:3 Ver. 3. Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it,.... Or them, the commandments given them: that it may be well with thee; in body and estate: and that ye may increase mightily; not only in wealth and riches, but chiefly in numbers: as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee; a promise …
135 wordsSECTION 88Deuteronomy 6:4
Deuteronomy 6:4 Ver. 4. Hear, O Israel,.... These are the words of Moses, stirring up the people to an attention to what he was about to say of this great and momentous article, the unity of God, to prevent their going into polytheism and idolatry. From one of the words here used, the Jews call this section Kiriathshe…
518 wordsSECTION 89Deuteronomy 6:5
Deuteronomy 6:5 Ver. 5. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God,.... Which is the first and chief commandment in the law, the sum and substance of the first table of it; and includes in it, or at least has connected with it, knowledge of God, esteem of him, delight in him, faith and trust in him, fear and worship of him,…
313 wordsSECTION 90Deuteronomy 6:6
Deuteronomy 6:6 Ver. 6. And these words, which I command thee this day,.... To hearken to, observe, and take notice of, that God is one, and is to be loved in the strongest manner that possibly can be: shall be in thine heart; on the table of the heart, as the Targum of Jonathan; see 2Co 3:3, be cordially received, h…
78 wordsSECTION 91Deuteronomy 6:7
Deuteronomy 6:7 Ver. 7. And thou shall teach them diligently unto thy children,.... Care and diligence are to be used, and pains taken, to instruct children, as soon as they are capable, in the knowledge of God, and of his commandments; that they are to love him, fear him, serve, and worship him; this is to bring them…
281 wordsSECTION 92Deuteronomy 6:8
Deuteronomy 6:8 Ver. 8. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand,.... As a man ties anything to his hand for a token, that he may remember somewhat he is desirous of; though the Jews understand this literally, of binding a scroll of parchment, with this section and others written in it, upon their left hand…
111 wordsSECTION 93Deuteronomy 6:9
Deuteronomy 6:9 Ver. 9. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thine house, and on thy gates. To put them in mind of them when they went out and came in, that they might be careful to observe them; this the Jews take literally also, and write in a scroll of parchment this section with some passages; and, as the T…
225 wordsSECTION 94Deuteronomy 6:10
Deuteronomy 6:10 Ver. 10. And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land,.... The land of Canaan, on the borders of which they now were, and were just going into: which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee; of his own free favour and good will, with…
134 wordsSECTION 95Deuteronomy 6:11
Deuteronomy 6:11 Ver. 11. And houses full of all good things which thou filledst not,.... Not only full of good, convenient, and rich household furniture, but of the fruits of the earth, of corn, and wine, and oil, and also, perhaps, of gold and silver: and wells digged which thou diggedst not; which in those hot and…
237 wordsSECTION 96Deuteronomy 6:12
Deuteronomy 6:12 Ver. 12. Then beware lest thou forget the Lord,.... To love, fear, and worship him, and keep his commands; creature enjoyments being apt to get possession of the heart, and the affections of it; Pr 30:9 which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; into a land abound…
88 wordsSECTION 97Deuteronomy 6:13
Deuteronomy 6:13 Ver. 13. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him,.... Serve him through fear; not through slavish fear, a fear of hell and damnation; but through filial fear, a reverential affection for that God that had brought them out of a state of bondage into great and glorious liberty, out of Egypt into…
202 wordsSECTION 98Deuteronomy 6:14
Deuteronomy 6:14 Ver. 14. Ye shall not go after other gods,.... To serve and worship them, and swear by them; and which indeed are no gods, only nominal and fictitious ones; idols which are nothing in the world, and ought to have no veneration and adoration given them; to go after them is to worship them, and this is …
101 wordsSECTION 99Deuteronomy 6:15
Deuteronomy 6:15 Ver. 15. For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you,.... He was near to them, in the midst of them, his tabernacle being placed between their camps; and was a God jealous of his honour and glory in matters of worship, and would resent any affront given him in that way: lest the anger of the Lord…
116 wordsSECTION 100Deuteronomy 6:16
Deuteronomy 6:16 Ver. 16. Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God,.... By striving with him or against him, by murmuring at or complaining of his providential dealings with them, or by requiring a sign of him, or miracles to be done by him; this is another passage used by Christ to repel the temptations of Satan, Mt 4:7,…
92 wordsSECTION 101Deuteronomy 6:17
Deuteronomy 6:17 Ver. 17. You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God,.... Not only the ten commands, but all others: and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee; those of a judicial and ceremonial kind.…
42 wordsSECTION 102Deuteronomy 6:18
Deuteronomy 6:18 Ver. 18. And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord,.... And what is such appears from the declaration of his mind and will in the commandments he has given, and obeying which is therefore doing what is right and good; for his commandment is holy, just, and good, being agr…
155 wordsSECTION 103Deuteronomy 6:19
Deuteronomy 6:19 Ver. 19. To cast out all thine enemies from before thee,.... This the Lord promised, and as it seems with an oath, that he would do for them; drive out their enemies, and make way for the settlement of them in their country: as the Lord hath spoken; see Ge 15:18.…
55 wordsSECTION 104Deuteronomy 6:20
Deuteronomy 6:20 Ver. 20. And when thy son asketh thee in time to come,.... Or "tomorrow" {x}; that is, in later times, as Jarchi interprets it; any time after this, and particularly after they were come into the land of Canaan, when the several laws, statutes, and ordinances appointed, would take place and be obeyed:…
113 wordsSECTION 105Deuteronomy 6:21
Deuteronomy 6:21 Ver. 21 Then shall thou say unto thy son,.... In order to lead him into the spring and original of them, and to acquaint him with the goodness of God, which laid them under obligation to observe them: we were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; were brought into bondage and slavery to Pharaoh king of Egypt, i…
758 wordsSECTION 106Deuteronomy 7:1
Deuteronomy 7:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 7 In this chapter the Israelites are exhorted to destroy the seven nations of the land of Canaan, when they entered into it, and to make no alliances with them of any kind, nor suffer any remains of idolatry to continue, De 7:1 to observe which, and other commands of God, t…
446 wordsSECTION 107Deuteronomy 7:2
Deuteronomy 7:2 Ver. 2. And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee,.... Into their hands: thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; men, women, and children; which was ordered not merely to make way and room for the people of Israel to inherit their land, but as a punishment for capital crimes th…
335 wordsSECTION 108Deuteronomy 7:3
Deuteronomy 7:3 Ver. 3. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them,.... Unless they became proselytes, as Rahab, who was married by Salmon, and so those of other nations, as Ruth the Moabitess, and so any captive taken in war; otherwise it was not lawful, bad consequences have followed upon it, which it is the design…
154 wordsSECTION 109Deuteronomy 7:4
Deuteronomy 7:4 Ver. 4. For they will turn away thy son from following me,.... From the pure worship of God, his word, statutes, and ordinances: that they may serve other gods; worship their idols; that is, the daughters of Heathens, married to the sons of Israelites, would entice them from the worship of the true Go…
211 wordsSECTION 110Deuteronomy 7:5
Deuteronomy 7:5 Ver. 5. But thus shall ye deal with them,.... The inhabitants of the land of Canaan: ye shall destroy their altars; on which they sacrificed to their idols: and break down their images; of their gods, and the statues and pillars erected to the honour of them: and cut down their groves; sacred to ido…
294 wordsSECTION 111Deuteronomy 7:6
Deuteronomy 7:6 Ver. 6. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God,.... Not sanctified in a spiritual sense, or having principles of grace and holiness in them, from whence holy actions sprang, at least not all of them; but they were separated from all other people in the world to the pure worship and service o…
202 wordsSECTION 112Deuteronomy 7:7
Deuteronomy 7:7 Ver. 7. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,.... He had done both, and the one as the effect and evidence of the other; he loved them, and therefore he chose them; but neither of them, because ye were more in number than any people; not for the quantity of them, nor even for the qua…
171 wordsSECTION 113Deuteronomy 7:8
Deuteronomy 7:8 Ver. 8. But because the Lord loved you,.... With an unmerited love; he loved them, because he loved them; that is, because he would love them; his love was not owing to any goodness in them, or done by them, or any love in them to him, but to his own good will and pleasure: and because he would keep t…
130 wordsSECTION 114Deuteronomy 7:9
Deuteronomy 7:9 Ver. 9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God,.... The only true and living God, and not the idols of the Gentiles, who are false and lifeless ones, and therefore not the proper objects of adoration: the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy; as appeared by fulfilling the promise mad…
126 wordsSECTION 115Deuteronomy 7:10
Deuteronomy 7:10 Ver. 10. And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them,.... Openly, publicly, and at once, they not being able to make any resistance. Onkelos interprets it in their lifetime, and so Jarchi which agrees with the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem: "or to his face"; {f} the face of God;…
152 wordsSECTION 116Deuteronomy 7:11
Deuteronomy 7:11 Ver. 11. Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments,.... The laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, urged thereunto both by promises and threatenings, in hopes of reward, and through fear of punishment: which I command thee this day, to do them; in the name of the…
81 wordsSECTION 117Deuteronomy 7:12
Deuteronomy 7:12 Ver. 12. Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep and do them,.... Attentively listen to the declaration made of them, and be careful to observe them: that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers; to bring the…
90 wordsSECTION 118Deuteronomy 7:13
Deuteronomy 7:13 Ver. 13. And he will love thee,.... As he has done, and rest in his love, and give further instances and proofs of it: and bless thee, and multiply thee; that is bless thee with a multiplication of offspring, which was what was often promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; that their seed should be as…
165 wordsSECTION 119Deuteronomy 7:14
Deuteronomy 7:14 Ver. 14. Thou shalt be blessed above all people,.... Even with temporal blessings, besides those of a religious kind; they having the oracles of God, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises, Ro 3:1, there shall not be male or female barren among you; which to be was…
70 wordsSECTION 120Ps 128:3
Ps 128:3 or among your cattle; the Targum of Jonathan is, nor thy beasts barren of wool, and milk, and lambs.…
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Public domain; John Gill (1697–1771). Source item is marked Public Domain on Internet Archive.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.