PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Deuteronomy
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 215,517 words · 518 reading sections
Deuteronomy 27:14
Deuteronomy 27:14 Ver. 14. And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel,.... Rather, "answer {e} and say"; not the whole tribe of Levi, for that stood on Mount Gerizim to bless, De 27:12; but the priests of that tribe who were placed in the valley, between the two mountains, and pronounced both the …
103 wordsSECTION 422Deuteronomy 27:15
Deuteronomy 27:15 Ver. 15. Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten image,.... The blessings and the form of them are not recorded, because they were not to be had from the law, and through obedience to it; and therefore there is a profound silence about them, to put men upon seeking for them elsewhere, …
404 wordsSECTION 423Deuteronomy 27:16
Deuteronomy 27:16 Ver. 16. Cursed [be] he that setteth light by his father, or his mother,.... That secretly despises them in his heart, and by looks and gestures mocks at them in a private manner, unseen by others, Pr 30:17; for if he publicly cursed them, that was cognizable by the civil magistrate, and he was to be…
116 wordsSECTION 424Deuteronomy 27:17
Deuteronomy 27:17 Ver. 17. Cursed [be] he that removeth his neighbour's landmark,.... Removes it backward, and steals ground, as Jarchi explains it; this is commonly done secretly; see De 19:14; and all the people shall say Amen; See Gill on "De 27:15"; See Gill on "De 27:16". Deuteronomy 27:18Ver. 18. Cursed [be] he…
692 wordsSECTION 425Deuteronomy 28:1
Deuteronomy 28:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 28 In this chapter Moses enlarges on the blessings and the curses which belong, the one to the doers, the other to the transgressors of the law; the blessings, De 28:1; the curses, some of which concern individual persons, others the whole nation and body of people, and th…
213 wordsSECTION 426Deuteronomy 28:2
Deuteronomy 28:2 Ver. 2. And all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee,.... After mentioned, which should come upon them from God from heaven, by the direction of his providence, and that freely and plentifully, and beyond their expectations and deserts, and continue with them: if thou shall hearken to…
86 wordsSECTION 427Deuteronomy 28:3
Deuteronomy 28:3 Ver. 3. Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city,.... Not only in the city of Jerusalem, where the temple would be built, and there be blessed with the service, worship, and ordinances of God, but in all other cities of the land; where they should dwell in title, large, and spacious houses, and their cit…
150 wordsSECTION 428Deuteronomy 28:4
Deuteronomy 28:4 Ver. 4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body,.... Their children, of which they should have many, and these live; be healthful, thrive, and arrive to manhood, and increase and perpetuate their families. Grotius thinks this was eminently fulfilled in Mary, the mother of our Lord; see Lu 1:42; and th…
182 wordsSECTION 429Deuteronomy 28:5
Deuteronomy 28:5 Ver. 5. Blessed [shall be] thy basket,.... Which the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem restrain to the basket of firstfruits, and the cake of the first of their dough; but it intends any and every vessel in which they put their provisions for present use, and that that should never be empty of them, a…
89 wordsSECTION 430Deuteronomy 28:6
Deuteronomy 28:6 Ver. 6. Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out. In all their business and employments of life whether within doors or without; in the administration of every office, whether more public or private; and in all their journeys going out and coming…
72 wordsSECTION 431Deuteronomy 28:7
Deuteronomy 28:7 Ver. 7. The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face,.... As the Philistines, Moabites, Syrians, Edomites, and Ammonites were, especially in the times of David: they shall come out against thee one way: in a body, all together, in large numbers, marching …
106 wordsSECTION 432Deuteronomy 28:8
Deuteronomy 28:8 Ver. 8. The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses,.... Barns, granaries, and cellar, where their corn, wine, and oil, were laid up; by preserving the corn from being devoured by vermin, and the casks of wine and oil from bursting and running out: and in all thou settest thine h…
121 wordsSECTION 433Deuteronomy 28:9
Deuteronomy 28:9 Ver. 9. And the Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself,.... Having separated them from all others, for his service, honour, and glory, should continue them as such, and settle them in the land, and confirm all their privileges, natural, civil, and religious. The Targum of Jonathan is, …
138 wordsSECTION 434Deuteronomy 28:10
Deuteronomy 28:10 Ver. 10. And all the people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord,.... Called his children, his people, his portion, and his inheritance; and that they are his, and he is theirs, by the care he takes of them, the provision he makes for them, and the protection they have …
84 wordsSECTION 435Deuteronomy 28:11
Deuteronomy 28:11 Ver. 11. And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods,.... In all temporal good things, give them an affluence of them, even all things richly to enjoy; the Targum of Jonathan is, "the Word of the Lord shall, &c.'' in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy…
94 wordsSECTION 436Deuteronomy 28:12
Deuteronomy 28:12 Ver. 12. The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure,.... The Lord has his treasures of snow and of hail, and of wind, Job 38:22; but here his good treasure, as appears by what follows, is his treasure of rain. In the Targum of Jonathan it is said, "there are four keys in the hand of the Lord of…
298 wordsSECTION 437Deuteronomy 28:13
Deuteronomy 28:13 Ver. 13. And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail,.... Give them dominion over others, and not make them subject to them; the head signifies rulers and governors, and the tail the common people that are subjects; or the one such that are honourable and in high esteem, and the other suc…
188 wordsSECTION 438Deuteronomy 28:14
Deuteronomy 28:14 Ver. 14. And thou shall not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day,.... Depart from them as a rule to walk by, turn out from them as a path to walk in, neglect and disobey them, and go into practices contrary to them: turning [to] the right hand or to the left, to go after othe…
93 wordsSECTION 439Deuteronomy 28:15
Deuteronomy 28:15 Ver. 15. But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God,.... As directed, exhorted, and encouraged to, De 28:1, &c. to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day; both moral and ceremonial: that all these curses shall com…
259 wordsSECTION 440Deuteronomy 28:16
Deuteronomy 28:16 Ver. 16. Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field. In De 28:16 the curses are delivered out in form, as the reverse of the blessings in De 28:3; and by observing what the blessings mean, the sense of the curses may easily be understood, the one being directly op…
71 wordsSECTION 441Deuteronomy 28:17
Deuteronomy 28:17 Ver. 17. Cursed [shall be] thy basket and thy store. See Gill on "De 28:5". See Gill on "De 28:16".…
25 wordsSECTION 442Deuteronomy 28:18
Deuteronomy 28:18 Ver. 18. Cursed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. See Gill on "De 28:4". See Gill on "De 28:16".…
42 wordsSECTION 443Deuteronomy 28:19
Deuteronomy 28:19 Ver. 19. Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out. See Gill on "De 28:6". See Gill on "De 28:16".…
34 wordsSECTION 444Deuteronomy 28:20
Deuteronomy 28:20 Ver. 20. The Lord shall send upon thee cursing,.... Which is either a general word for all that follows, or rather, since that had been expressed before in various instances, this may denote some particular judgment. Jarchi interprets it of penury, of want of all good things, extreme poverty, so as t…
10,694 wordsSECTION 445Deuteronomy 29:1
Deuteronomy 29:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 29 This chapter begins with an intimation of another covenant the Lord was about to make with the people of Israel, De 29:1; and, to prepare their minds to an attention to it, various things which the Lord had done for them are recited, De 29:2; the persons are particularl…
489 wordsSECTION 446Deuteronomy 29:2
Deuteronomy 29:2 Ver. 2. Moses called unto all Israel,.... He had been speaking before to the heads of them, and delivered at different times what is before recorded; but now he summoned the whole body of the people together, a solemn covenant being to be made between God and them; or such things being to be made know…
230 wordsSECTION 447Deuteronomy 29:3
Deuteronomy 29:3 Ver. 3. The great temptations which thine eyes have seen,.... Or trials, the ten plagues which tried the Egyptians, whether they would let Israel go; and tried the Israelites, whether they would believe in the Lord, and trust in his almighty power to deliver them: the signs and those great miracles: …
76 wordsSECTION 448Deuteronomy 29:4
Deuteronomy 29:4 Ver. 4. Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive,.... They had some of them seen the above miracles with their bodily eyes, but had not discerned with the eyes of their understanding the power of God displayed in them, the goodness of God to them on whose behalf they were wrought, in order…
178 wordsSECTION 449Deuteronomy 29:5
Deuteronomy 29:5 Ver. 5. And I have led you forty years in the wilderness,.... From the time of their coming out of Egypt unto that day, which though not quite complete, is given as a round number. Eupolemus {d}, an Heathen writer, confirms this date of the ministry of Moses among the Israelites; he says, Moses perfor…
173 wordsSECTION 450Deuteronomy 29:6
Deuteronomy 29:6 Ver. 6. Ye have not eaten bread,.... Bread made of corn, common bread, of their own preparing, made by the labour of their own hands; but manna, the food of angelS, the bread of heaven: neither have you drank wine, nor strong drink; only water out of the rock, at least chiefly, and for constancy; tho…
136 wordsSECTION 451Deuteronomy 29:7
Deuteronomy 29:7 Ver. 7. And when ye came unto this place,.... The borders of Moab, the wilderness before it, to which joined the plains they were now in; see Nu 21:13; Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle; not together, but one after the other, and that very quickly; as soon …
102 wordsSECTION 452Deuteronomy 29:8
Deuteronomy 29:8 Ver. 8. And we took their land,.... Which belonged to the two kings, the lands of Jazer, Gilead, and Bashan, fine countries for pasturage: and gave it for an inheritances unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh; who requested it, and to whom it was granted on certai…
71 wordsSECTION 453Deuteronomy 29:9
Deuteronomy 29:9 Ver. 9. Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them,.... To do which they were laid under great obligations, through the goodness of God to them, in giving them victory over the two kings, and delivering their countries into their hands, as well as by all the favours bestowed on them in the…
169 wordsSECTION 454Deuteronomy 29:10
Deuteronomy 29:10 Ver. 10. Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God,.... Being gathered together at the door of the tabernacle, at the summons of Moses. Aben Ezra interprets it round about the ark, which was the symbol of the divine Presence: your captains of your tribes; the heads and rulers of them: y…
194 wordsSECTION 455Deuteronomy 29:11
Deuteronomy 29:11 Ver. 11. Your little ones, your wives,.... Who are scarce ever mentioned in any special law or solemn transaction: and thy stranger that [is] in thy camp; not only the proselyte of righteousness, who embraced the Jewish religion entirely, but the proselyte of the gate, who was admitted to dwell amon…
172 wordsSECTION 456Deuteronomy 29:12
Deuteronomy 29:12 Ver. 12. That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God,.... That is, they were all to appear and stand in this order before the Lord, that they might solemnly avouch him to be their God, and hear him declaring them to be his people, and the many promises and prophecies of good things …
229 wordsSECTION 457Deuteronomy 29:13
Deuteronomy 29:13 Ver. 13. That be may establish thee this day for a people unto himself, and [that] he may be unto thee a God,.... Which contains the sum and substance of the covenant; see Jer 32:38; as he hath said unto thee, and as he had sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; De 26:17.…
63 wordsSECTION 458Deuteronomy 29:14
Deuteronomy 29:14 Ver. 14. Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath. That is, Moses; for he was ordered to make this covenant with them in the name of the Lord; what promises of good things, or declarations of his mind and will, God would make, Moses was to deliver to them; and what was required of …
88 wordsSECTION 459Deuteronomy 29:15
Deuteronomy 29:15 Ver. 15. But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God,.... Who are before specified according to their dignity, age, sex, and station of life; or rather, "but [as] with him that standeth", &c. and so with [him] that [is] not here with us this day; detained at home by il…
97 wordsSECTION 460Deuteronomy 29:16
Deuteronomy 29:16 Ver. 16. For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt,.... How long they and their fathers had dwelt there, the number of years they had been in the land, as the Targum of Jonathan, which was upwards of two hundred years; and being a country the inhabitants of which were much given to idolatry,…
151 wordsSECTION 461Deuteronomy 29:17
Deuteronomy 29:17 Ver. 17. And ye have seen their abominations and their idols,.... Or, "their abominations, even their idols"; for the same are meant by both: it is common in Scripture to call the idols of the Gentiles abominations, without any other explanation of them; see 1Ki 11:5; because they are abominable to G…
231 wordsSECTION 462Deuteronomy 29:18
Deuteronomy 29:18 Ver. 18. Lest there should be among you man or woman, or family, or tribe,.... These words stand in connection with De 29:15, withDe 29:16 being in a parenthesis, as may be observed, and show the design of this solemn appearance of the people, and their entering afresh into covenant; which was to pre…
3,324 wordsSECTION 463Deuteronomy 30:1
Deuteronomy 30:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 30 This chapter contains some gracious promises of the conversion of the Jews in the latter day, of their calling things to mind that have befallen them, of their repentance, and the circumcision of their hearts to love the Lord, of the return of them to their own land, an…
262 wordsSECTION 464Deuteronomy 30:2
Deuteronomy 30:2 Ver. 2. And shalt return unto the Lord thy God,.... By repentance, acknowledging their manifold sins and transgressions, particularly their disbelief and rejection of the Messiah, now seeking him and salvation by him; see Ho 3:5; and shalt obey his voice; in the Gospel, yielding the obedience of fait…
157 wordsSECTION 465Deuteronomy 30:3
Deuteronomy 30:3 Ver. 3. That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion on thee,.... Return them from their captivity, or bring them out of it, both in a temporal and spiritual sense; free them from their present exile, and deliver them from the bondage of sin, Satan, and the law; and all this…
226 wordsSECTION 466Deuteronomy 30:4
Deuteronomy 30:4 Ver. 4. If [any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of heaven,.... As many of them are in this remote island of ours, Great Britain, reckoned formerly the uttermost part of the earth, as Thule, supposed to be Schetland, an isle belonging to Scotland, is said to be {m}; See Gill on "De 28:…
162 wordsSECTION 467Deuteronomy 30:5
Deuteronomy 30:5 Ver. 5. And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it,.... That the Jews upon their conversion in the latter day will return to the land of Judea again, and possess it, is the sense of many passages of Scripture; among others, see Jer 30:18; …
123 wordsSECTION 468Deuteronomy 30:6
Deuteronomy 30:6 Ver. 6. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed,.... No mention is made of circumcision of the flesh, which will now be out of use with the Jews; they being fully convinced of the abrogation of the ceremonial law by the Messiah, whom they will now receive. It is spi…
438 wordsSECTION 469Deuteronomy 30:7
Deuteronomy 30:7 Ver. 7. And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies,.... Recorded in De 28:16; that is, the Word of the Lord, as the Targum of Jonathan; for he being now sought unto, and embraced, will be their King and their Saviour, and revenge their enemies: and on them that hate thee, which…
107 wordsSECTION 470Deuteronomy 30:8
Deuteronomy 30:8 Ver. 8. And thou shall return, and obey the voice of the Lord,.... In the Gospel; obey the form of doctrine delivered to them, embrace the truth of the Gospel cordially, and yield a cheerful subjection to the ordinances of it; or receive the Word of the Lord, as the Targum of Jonathan, Christ, the ess…
141 wordsSECTION 471Deuteronomy 30:9
Deuteronomy 30:9 Ver. 9. And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand,.... In every manufacture, trade, or business of life in which they should be employed; the meaning is, that the Lord will greatly bless them in all that they shall set their hands to in a lawful way; so that they shall …
233 wordsSECTION 472Deuteronomy 30:10
Deuteronomy 30:10 Ver. 10. If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God,.... Or rather, "for thou shalt hearken" {p}; seeing it is before promised that the Lord would circumcise their hearts to love him, and they should obey his voice, De 30:6. The Targum is, "receive the Word of the Lord:'' to keep his …
124 wordsSECTION 473Deuteronomy 30:11
Deuteronomy 30:11 Ver. 11. For this commandment which I command thee this day,.... Which the Jews understand of the law, but the Apostle Paul has taught us to interpret it of the word of faith, the Gospel preached by him and other ministers, Ro 10:6; which better suits with the context, and the prophecies before deliv…
216 wordsSECTION 474Deuteronomy 30:12
Deuteronomy 30:12 Ver. 12. It [is] not in heaven,.... The scheme of it was formed in heaven, it was hid in the heart of God there, before revealed; it was ordained before the world was for our glory; it was brought down from thence by Christ, and committed to his apostles and ministers of the word to preach it to men;…
240 wordsSECTION 475Deuteronomy 30:13
Deuteronomy 30:13 Ver. 13. Neither [is] it beyond the sea,.... There is no need to travel into foreign parts, into transmarine countries for it, as the Heathen philosophers did to get knowledge; for the Gospel is ordered to be preached to all the world, and sent into all nations; and at the time of the conversion of t…
254 wordsSECTION 476Deuteronomy 30:14
Deuteronomy 30:14 Ver. 14. But the word [is] very nigh unto thee,.... In the ministration of it by those who clearly, plainly, and faithfully preach it, and in the application of it by the Spirit of God to the heart; and in the gracious experience converted persons have of the power and efficacy of it in them, and of …
135 wordsSECTION 477Deuteronomy 30:15
Deuteronomy 30:15 Ver. 15. See, I have set before thee this day,.... Moses here returns to press the Israelites to the present observance of the laws, statutes, and judgments of one sort and another, he had been delivering to them; as being of great moment and importance to them, no other than life and good, and deat…
177 wordsSECTION 478Deuteronomy 30:16
Deuteronomy 30:16 Ver. 16. In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God,.... Which is the sum and substance of the first table of the law, and includes the whole worship of God, the contrary to which are idolatry, superstition, and will worship, from which Moses had been dissuading and deterring them:to wa…
718 wordsSECTION 479Deuteronomy 31:1
Deuteronomy 31:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 31 Moses being old, and knowing he should quickly die, and must not go over Jordan with the people of Israel, acquaints them with it, and encourages them and Joshua to go over notwithstanding, and not be afraid of their enemies, since the Lord would go with them, and deliv…
392 wordsSECTION 480Deuteronomy 31:2
Deuteronomy 31:2 Ver. 2. And he said unto them, I [am] an hundred and twenty years old this day,.... Whether the meaning is, that that day precisely was his birthday, is a question; it may be the sense is only this, that he was now arrived to such an age; though Jarchi takes it in the first sense, to which are objecte…
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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.