PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Deuteronomy
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 215,517 words · 518 reading sections
Deuteronomy 7:15
Deuteronomy 7:15 Ver. 15. And will take away from thee all sickness,.... Bodily sickness and diseases, prevent the coming of them, or remove them when come: and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt which thou knowest upon thee; meaning either the plagues that were inflicted upon them to oblige them to let the …
132 wordsSECTION 122Deuteronomy 7:16
Deuteronomy 7:16 Ver. 16. And thou shall consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee,.... All the inhabitants of the land of Canaan, which the Lord should deliver into their hands; them they were not to spare, but utterly destroy men, women, and children: thine eye shall have no pity upon them; S…
1,418 wordsSECTION 123Deuteronomy 8:1
Deuteronomy 8:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 8 In this chapter Moses repeats the exhortation to observe the commands of God, and urges the Israelites to it, from the consideration of the great and good things God had done for them in the wilderness, and even in those instances which were chastisements, and were of an …
280 wordsSECTION 124Deuteronomy 8:2
Deuteronomy 8:2 Ver. 2. And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness,.... For this was now the fortieth year of their coming out of Egypt into the wilderness, into which they quickly came after their departure from thence, and had been in one wilderness or ano…
389 wordsSECTION 125Deuteronomy 8:3
Deuteronomy 8:3 Ver. 3. And he humbled thee,.... Or afflicted thee with want of bread: and suffered thee to hunger; that there might be an opportunity of showing his mercy, and exerting his power: and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; a sort of food they had never seen before…
443 wordsSECTION 126Deuteronomy 8:4
Deuteronomy 8:4 Ver. 4. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, &c] They wanted not clothes all the forty years they were in the wilderness; which some account for by the rising generation being supplied with the clothes of those that died in the wilderness, and with the spoils they took from Amalek, Ex 17:1 and others, …
405 wordsSECTION 127Deuteronomy 8:5
Deuteronomy 8:5 Ver. 5. Thou shalt also consider in thine heart,.... Frequently think of, and meditate upon, revolve in their thoughts, well weigh in their minds, and take into thorough and deliberate consideration in their hearts; it being a matter of great moment and importance to them for their peace and comfort an…
178 wordsSECTION 128Deuteronomy 8:6
Deuteronomy 8:6 Ver. 6. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God,.... Not only because they are the commands of God, and of a covenant God and Father, which are reasons sufficient for the observance of them; but because the Lord had dealt so bountifully with them, in providing food and raiment fo…
153 wordsSECTION 129Deuteronomy 8:7
Deuteronomy 8:7 Ver. 7. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land,.... The land of Canaan, abounding with good things after enumerated, a land flowing with milk and honey, having in it plenty of everything both for convenience and delight; which is another reason why they were under obligations to serve the …
175 wordsSECTION 130Deuteronomy 8:8
Deuteronomy 8:8 Ver. 8. A land of wheat and barley,.... There were two harvests in it, one a barley harvest, which began at the passover, and the other a wheat harvest, which began at Pentecost: instances of the great plenty of these might be observed in the vast quantities consumed in the times of Solomon, in his hou…
685 wordsSECTION 131Deuteronomy 8:9
Deuteronomy 8:9 Ver. 9. A land wherein thou shall eat bread without scarceness,.... That is, should have plenty of all sorts of provisions, which bread is often put for: thou shall not lack anything in it; for necessity and convenience, and for delight and pleasure: a land whose stones are iron; in which were iron m…
154 wordsSECTION 132Deuteronomy 8:10
Deuteronomy 8:10 Ver. 10. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God,.... For as the Lord would furnish them with plenty of food, they might eat of it liberally, provided they did not indulge to intemperance, as everyone may whom God has blessed with a fulness of good things; and this sh…
103 wordsSECTION 133Deuteronomy 8:11
Deuteronomy 8:11 Ver. 11. Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God,.... The Father of mercies and fountain of goodness, the author and donor of every good and perfect gift. Plenty is apt to induce a forgetfulness of God, when on the contrary one would think it should keep him in continual remembrance, and engage t…
105 wordsSECTION 134Deuteronomy 8:12
Deuteronomy 8:12 Ver. 12. Lest when thou hast eaten and art full,.... Not only once and again, but continually, day after day, being indulged with great plenty: and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt [therein]; who for forty years had only dwelt in tents, moving from place to place in the wilderness.…
53 wordsSECTION 135Deuteronomy 8:13
Deuteronomy 8:13 Ver. 13. And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply,.... Having good pasture for them in so fruitful a land: and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied; by trading with other nations: and all that thou hast is multiplied; children, servants, and substance.…
47 wordsSECTION 136Deuteronomy 8:14
Deuteronomy 8:14 Ver. 14. Then thine heart be lifted up,.... As the heart is apt to be when riches increase; hence the advice in 1Ti 6:17 and thou forget the Lord thy God; from whom all good things come, and who can take them away when he pleases, and therefore should be ever kept in mind, for ever looked to and trus…
166 wordsSECTION 137Deuteronomy 8:15
Deuteronomy 8:15 Ver. 15. Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness,.... The wilderness of Paran, which was great and large, reaching from Sinai to Kadesh, eleven days' journey, and terrible to the sight, nothing being to be seen but dry rocks and barren mountains; see De 1:19, and especially for what fo…
301 wordsSECTION 138Deuteronomy 8:16
Deuteronomy 8:16 Ver. 16. Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna,.... Even all the forty years they were in it, Ex 16:35 which thy fathers knew not; when they first saw it, Ex 16:15that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee; they were kept humble, being dependent on God for their daily bread, having no…
824 wordsSECTION 139Deuteronomy 9:1
Deuteronomy 9:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 9 In this chapter the Israelites are assured of the ejection of the Canaanites, though so great and mighty, to make room for them, De 9:1, and they are cautioned not to attribute this to their own righteousness, but to the wickedness of the nations which deserved to be so t…
413 wordsSECTION 140Deuteronomy 9:2
Deuteronomy 9:2 Ver. 2. A people great and tall,.... Of a large bulky size, and of an high stature, so that the spies seemed to be as grasshoppers to them, Nu 13:33, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest; by report, having had an account of them by the spies, who described them as very large bodied men, and …
191 wordsSECTION 141Deuteronomy 9:3
Deuteronomy 9:3 Ver. 3. Understand therefore this day,.... Or be it known to you for your encouragement, and believe it: that the Lord thy God [is] he which goeth over before thee as a consuming fire: did not only go before them over the river Jordan, in a pillar of cloud and fire, to guide and direct them, and was a…
259 wordsSECTION 142Deuteronomy 9:4
Deuteronomy 9:4 Ver. 4. Speak not thou in thine heart,.... Never once think within thyself, or give way to such a vain imagination, and please thyself with it: after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee; to make way for the Israelites, and put them into the possession of their land; which is to b…
358 wordsSECTION 143Deuteronomy 9:5
Deuteronomy 9:5 Ver. 5. Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart,.... Neither for their external righteousness before men, or their outward conformity to the law, nor for the inward sincerity of their hearts, and their upright intentions in doing good, in which they were defective: dost thou g…
357 wordsSECTION 144Deuteronomy 9:6
Deuteronomy 9:6 Ver. 6. Understand therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness,.... This is again repeated to impress it upon their minds, that it was not for any goodness of theirs, but as a gift of divine goodness to them, that they were put into the possession …
345 wordsSECTION 145Deuteronomy 9:7
Deuteronomy 9:7 Ver. 7. Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness,.... Aben Ezra remarks that this was after they journeyed from Horeb; but before they came thither, even as soon as, they were in the wilderness, they provoked the Lord, as by their murmuring for water at M…
210 wordsSECTION 146Deuteronomy 9:8
Deuteronomy 9:8 Ver. 8. Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath,.... The word "also" shows that they had provoked him before, but this instance is given as a very notorious one; here they made the golden calf and worshipped it, while Moses was on the mount with God, receiving instructions from him for their good. …
178 wordsSECTION 147Deuteronomy 9:9
Deuteronomy 9:9 Ver. 9. When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone,.... The tables of the law, the same law which forbid idolatry, and which they had lately heard from the mouth of God himself: even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you; which they had agreed unto, and solemnly…
120 wordsSECTION 148Deuteronomy 9:10
Deuteronomy 9:10 Ver. 10. And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone, written with the finger of God,.... The letters were of his devising and forming, the writing was his, the engraving them on the stones was his own doing; and which was done to show its original, to stamp a divine authority on it, and to den…
134 wordsSECTION 149Ex 34:28
Ex 34:28 out the midst of the fire; in which the Lord was, and whence he spake: in the day of the assembly; when all the people of Israel were gathered together at the foot of the mount; see Ex 19:17.…
43 wordsSECTION 150Deuteronomy 9:11
Deuteronomy 9:11 Ver. 11. And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights,.... The time of Moses's stay in the mount, when it was just up, and not before: that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant, as in De 9:9. Aben Ezra observes, that this shows that the day the …
75 wordsSECTION 151Deuteronomy 9:12
Deuteronomy 9:12 Ver. 12. And the Lord said unto me,.... The omniscient God, who knew what was doing in the camp of Israel, though Moses did not, of which he informs him: arise, get thee down quickly from hence; from the mount where he was; and the word "arise" does not suppose him to be sitting or lying along, neith…
219 wordsSECTION 152Deuteronomy 9:13
Deuteronomy 9:13 Ver. 13. Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying,.... After he had given him the two tables, and before his departure from the mount: I have seen this people; took notice of them, their ways, and their works: and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people; unwilling to submit to, and bear the yoke of my…
63 wordsSECTION 153Deuteronomy 9:14
Deuteronomy 9:14 Ver. 14. Let me alone, that I may destroy them,.... Do not say one word to me on their behalf, or entreat me to spare them, and not destroy them: and blot out their name from under heaven; that no such nation may be heard of, or known by the name of Israel: and I will make of thee a nation mightier …
107 wordsSECTION 154Deuteronomy 9:15
Deuteronomy 9:15 Ver. 15. So I turned and came down from the mount,.... As the Lord commanded: and the mount burned with fire; as it had for six weeks past, ever since the Lord's descent upon it; and so it continued, for the words may be rendered, "and the mount was burning" {b}; and yet this did not deter the Israel…
98 wordsSECTION 155Deuteronomy 9:16
Deuteronomy 9:16 Ver. 16. And I looked,.... When he was come down from the mount, and was nigh the camp:and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God; that plainly appeared by what they had done, and at which he was amazed; and therefore a behold is prefixed to it, it being such a gross sin, having so much impi…
1,932 wordsSECTION 156Deuteronomy 10:1
Deuteronomy 10:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 10 In this chapter an account is given of an order to Moses to hew two tables of stone, on which the Lord would write the words that were on the first, and to make an ark and put them into it, all which was accordingly done, De 10:1 and of some of the journeys of the child…
492 wordsSECTION 157Deuteronomy 10:2
Deuteronomy 10:2 Ver. 2. And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest,.... {a} Though they were hewn by Moses, the writing on them was the Lord's; and the very same laws, in the same words, without any alteration or variation, were written by him on these as on the former;…
198 wordsSECTION 158Deuteronomy 10:3
Deuteronomy 10:3 Ver. 3. And I made an ark of shittim wood,.... That is, ordered it to be made, and it was made by Bezaleel, and that of shittim wood: so the ark that was put into the holy of holies was made of this wood; see See Gill on "Ex 25:10", See Gill on "Ex 37:1", and hewed two tables of stone like unto the f…
169 wordsSECTION 159Deuteronomy 10:4
Deuteronomy 10:4 Ver. 4. And he wrote on the tables according to the first writing,.... The same laws, in the same letters: the ten commandments which the Lord spake unto you in the mount; in Mount Sinai, on which he descended, and from whence he delivered the decalogue by word of mouth in an audible manner, that all…
135 wordsSECTION 160Deuteronomy 10:5
Deuteronomy 10:5 Ver. 5. And I turned myself,.... From the Lord, out of whose hands he had received the tables: and came down from the mount; with the two tables in his hand as before, one in one hand, and the other in the other hand: and put the tables in the ark which I had made; or ordered to be made: and there …
155 wordsSECTION 161Deuteronomy 10:6
Deuteronomy 10:6 Ver. 6. And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan,.... Not when or soon after they removed from Sinai; for if this place is the same with Benejaakan, as is generally supposed, they had a great many journeys, mansions, and stations before they came to it; see …
320 wordsSECTION 162Deuteronomy 10:7
Deuteronomy 10:7 Ver. 7. From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah,.... Which Jarchi takes to be the same with Horhagidgad, and so do most; see Nu 33:32, but Aben Ezra says it is not, but is a general name, including Zalmonah, Punon, and Oboth, places the Israelites came to after they removed from Mount Hor, where Aaro…
60 wordsSECTION 163Nu 33:41
Nu 33:41 and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters; which the above writer takes to be the same with Beer, the well, Nu 21:16 and by this description of it, it was a place where there was much water.…
45 wordsSECTION 164Deuteronomy 10:8
Deuteronomy 10:8 Ver. 8. At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi,.... Not at the time that Moses came down from the mount with the tables of the law, but some considerable time after, even after the tabernacle was erected; nor at the time that Aaron died, and Eleazar succeeded him, but many years before that…
220 wordsSECTION 165Deuteronomy 10:9
Deuteronomy 10:9 Ver. 9. Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren,.... In the division of the land of Canaan, because being separated to the service of the sanctuary, he had no leisure to plough and sow, as Jarchi observes: the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord thy God promised him; not in a s…
135 wordsSECTION 166Deuteronomy 10:10
Deuteronomy 10:10 Ver. 10. And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights,.... Which is to be connected with De 10:6 and relates what passed before he came down from the mount with the two tables; as that he stayed there as long as he did when he received the first tables, and fast…
111 wordsSECTION 167Deuteronomy 10:11
Deuteronomy 10:11 Ver. 11. And the Lord said unto me, arise, take thy journey before the people,.... Here Moses goes on with his relation of things at Mount Sinai, how that upon his supplication for the people, on account of the destruction they were threatened with for their idolatry, the Lord was graciously pleased …
136 wordsSECTION 168Deuteronomy 10:12
Deuteronomy 10:12 Ver. 12. And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee,.... For all these favours bestowed upon them, the forgiveness of their sins, and a fresh intimation of their possession of the land of Canaan, and the renewal of the promise of it made to their fathers: but to fear the Lord thy Go…
169 wordsSECTION 169Deuteronomy 10:13
Deuteronomy 10:13 Ver. 13. To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes,.... Both the ten commands and all others: which I command thee this day for thy good; promises of temporal good things, introduction into the land of Canaan, possession of it, and continuance in it, being made to obedience to them.…
55 wordsSECTION 170Deuteronomy 10:14
Deuteronomy 10:14 Ver. 14. Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, are the Lord's thy God,.... Made and possessed by him; the airy and starry heaven, the third heaven, which is the heaven of heavens, the seat of the divine Majesty, the habitation of angels and glorified saints: the earth [also], with all that …
1,098 wordsSECTION 171Deuteronomy 11:1
Deuteronomy 11:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 11 In this chapter, the exhortation to love the Lord, and keep his commands, is repeated and urged again and again from various considerations; as not only from the chastisement of Pharaoh and the wicked Egyptians, but of such Israelites who offended the Lord, and transgre…
307 wordsSECTION 172Deuteronomy 11:2
Deuteronomy 11:2 Ver. 2. And know you this day,.... Take notice of, and diligently attend unto, what is now about to be delivered: for I speak not unto your children which have not known, and which have not seen, the chastisement of the Lord your God; who have no knowledge and experience of the chastisement of the Lo…
154 wordsSECTION 173Deuteronomy 11:3
Deuteronomy 11:3 Ver. 3. And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt,.... The miraculous works done there, the ten plagues inflicted on the Egyptians for refusing to let Israel go: unto Pharaoh king, of Egypt, and unto all his land; for those plagues not only affected him and his court, and his…
71 wordsSECTION 174Deuteronomy 11:4
Deuteronomy 11:4 Ver. 4. And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots,.... At the Red sea, when they pursued Israel in order to bring them back or destroy them, after they had let them go, which army was very numerous; see Ex 14:7 how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow th…
237 wordsSECTION 175Deuteronomy 11:5
Deuteronomy 11:5 Ver. 5. And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place. Meaning not so much the good things he did for them in divers places, as the chastisements and corrections he had exercised them with for their murmurings, rebellions, idolatry, and uncleanness, as at Taberah, Kibrothha…
83 wordsSECTION 176Deuteronomy 11:6
Deuteronomy 11:6 Ver. 6. And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben,.... When they with Korah and his company quarrelled with Moses and Aaron about the priesthood, Nu 16:1, how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up; the history of which see in…
55 wordsSECTION 177Nu 16:30
Nu 16:30 and their households and their tents; not their houses and their tents, as the Septuagint and some other versions; for though the word signifies houses, and is often used for them, yet here it must signify families, their wives, and children; since they had no houses, but dwelt in tents, all which were swallo…
172 wordsSECTION 178Deuteronomy 11:7
Deuteronomy 11:7 Ver. 7. But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did;] Even all before related, with many others; and therefore the instruction they should learn from thence should be as follows.…
40 wordsSECTION 179Deuteronomy 11:8
Deuteronomy 11:8 Ver. 8. Therefore shall you keep all the commandments which I command you this day,.... For the reasons before suggested, as well as for what follow: that ye may be strong; healthful in body, and courageous in mind, for sin tends to weaken both; whereas observance of the commands of God contributes t…
158 wordsSECTION 180Deuteronomy 11:9
Deuteronomy 11:9 Ver. 9. And that ye may prolong your days in the land,.... Not only enter it, and take possession of it, but continue in it long, which depended upon their obedience to the laws of God: which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed; had promised with an oath, so that they…
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