PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Deuteronomy
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 215,517 words · 518 reading sections
Deuteronomy 31:3
Deuteronomy 31:3 Ver. 3. The Lord thy God, he will go over before thee,.... This he said to encourage the people of Israel; that though he should die, and not go over with them, their ever living and true God, the great Jehovah, the Lord of hosts, he would go before them, and fight their battles for them; so that they…
139 wordsSECTION 482Deuteronomy 31:4
Deuteronomy 31:4 Ver. 4. And the Lord shall do unto them as he did unto Sihon, and to Og, kings of the Amorites,.... Deliver them up into their hands; see the history of this in Nu 21:10; and unto the land of them whom he destroyed; put them into the possession of the land of Canaan, as they were now in possession of…
105 wordsSECTION 483Deuteronomy 31:5
Deuteronomy 31:5 Ver. 5. And the Lord shall give them up before your face,.... To ruin and destruction; the Targum of Jonathan is, "the Word of the Lord shall deliver them up:'' that ye may do unto them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you; that is, utterly destroy them, make no covenant with…
106 wordsSECTION 484Deuteronomy 31:6
Deuteronomy 31:6 Ver. 6. Be strong and of a good courage,.... The Septuagint version is, "play the men, and be strong;'' be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might, trusting and relying on him that goes before you; and so take heart, and be of good courage, and act the manly part; the apostle seems to refe…
197 wordsSECTION 485Deuteronomy 31:7
Deuteronomy 31:7 Ver. 7. And Moses called unto Joshua,.... Who might be at some distance from him, with the tribe to which he belonged. The Targum of Jonathan adds, "out of the midst of the people:'' and said unto him, in the sight of all Israel; now assembled together, and what follows was said in their hearing, to…
239 wordsSECTION 486Deuteronomy 31:8
Deuteronomy 31:8 Ver. 8. And the Lord, he [it is] that doth go before thee,.... The Word of the Lord, his Shechinah, according to the above Targum, and so in the next clause; the same that brought Israel out of Egypt, had gone before them in the wilderness, and now would go before Joshua and them into the land of Cana…
194 wordsSECTION 487Deuteronomy 31:9
Deuteronomy 31:9 Ver. 9. And Moses wrote this law,.... The book of Deuteronomy, or the Pentateuch, the five books of Moses, which he had now finished, and which all of them together are sometimes called the law, Ga 4:21; and delivered it unto the priests, the sons of Levi; who were the teachers of the law, as Aben Ez…
308 wordsSECTION 488Deuteronomy 31:10
Deuteronomy 31:10 Ver. 10. And Moses commanded them,.... The priests and the elders, to whom the law was delivered: saying; as follows: at the end of [every] seven years; every seventh year was a year of rest to the land, and of remission of debts to poor debtors: at the close of this year or going out of it, accord…
408 wordsSECTION 489Deuteronomy 31:11
Deuteronomy 31:11 Ver. 11. When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God,.... As all the males were obliged to do three times in the year, and one of those times was the feast of tabernacles, and so a proper season for the reading of the law; see Ex 23:14; in the place which the Lord shall choose; the cit…
3,926 wordsSECTION 490Deuteronomy 32:1
Deuteronomy 32:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 32 This chapter contains the song mentioned and referred to in the former, the preface to it, De 32:1; the character of the divine and illustrious Person it chiefly respects, De 32:4; the ingratitude of the people of the Jews to him, who were a crooked and perverse generat…
839 wordsSECTION 491Deuteronomy 32:2
Deuteronomy 32:2 Ver. 2. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew,.... Which some, as Aben Ezra, take to be a prayer or wish, that the doctrine spoken by him might fall upon men like rain and dew on the earth, penetrate into their hearts, and influence them, and produce good effects there;…
651 wordsSECTION 492Deuteronomy 32:3
Deuteronomy 32:3 Ver. 3. Because I will publish the name of the Lord,.... Not call on his name, as some, nor call to the heaven and earth in his name, as others, but proclaim his name, even the same that was proclaimed before Moses, Ex 34:6; and this is to be understood, not of Jehovah the Father, nor of Jehovah the S…
583 wordsSECTION 493Deuteronomy 32:4
Deuteronomy 32:4 Ver. 4. [He is] the rock,.... That is, Jehovah is the rock, whose name Moses proposed to publish; and our God, to whom the heavens and the earth are called upon to ascribe greatness, even Christ the rock of salvation: here begins the song; the first word in it is very emphatic; it has a letter in it l…
961 wordsSECTION 494Deuteronomy 32:5
Deuteronomy 32:5 Ver. 5. They have corrupted themselves,.... This and what follows may seem to be the characters of the enemies of Christ, who lightly esteemed and rejected him, set in a contrast with him; who were not only corrupt by nature, as all men are, but were men of corrupt minds in their tenets and principles…
756 wordsSECTION 495Deuteronomy 32:6
Deuteronomy 32:6 Ver. 6. Do you thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise,.... This is also a proper character of the Jews in the times of Christ, who are often by him called "fools", Mt 23:17; being very ignorant of the Scriptures, and of the prophecies in them respecting him, setting up their own traditions…
509 wordsSECTION 496Deuteronomy 32:7
Deuteronomy 32:7 Ver. 7. Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations,.... That went before the times of Christ, and the Jews' rejection of him, and observe the instances of divine goodness to them; as in the time of the Maccabees, whom God raised up as deliverers of them, when oppressed by the Syr…
537 wordsSECTION 497Deuteronomy 32:8
Deuteronomy 32:8 Ver. 8. When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,.... In the times of Noah and his sons, in the days of Peleg, who had his name (that is "Division") from thence, Ge 10:25; "the Most High" is a well known and proper, epithet of God; the dividing of the earth to the several nations of…
19,941 wordsSECTION 498Deuteronomy 33:1
Deuteronomy 33:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 33 This chapter relates the blessings Moses pronounced upon the people of Israel a little before his death; first, in general, on account of their having a law given them in so glorious a manner, De 33:1; then, in particular, each of the tribes distinctly is blessed, Reube…
280 wordsSECTION 499Deuteronomy 33:2
Deuteronomy 33:2 Ver. 2. And he said,.... What follows, of which, in some things, he was an eye and ear witness, and in others was inspired by the Spirit of God, to deliver his mind and will concerning the future case and state of the several tribes, after he had observed the common benefit and blessing they all enjoy…
967 wordsSECTION 500Deuteronomy 33:3
Deuteronomy 33:3 Ver. 3. Yea, he loved the people,.... The people of Israel, of which his giving the law to them in such a glorious manner was an instance, and was a distinguishing blessing which other nations were not favoured with, see De 4:6; how much more is the love of God shown to his spiritual Israel and specia…
795 wordsSECTION 501Deuteronomy 33:4
Deuteronomy 33:4 Ver. 4. Moses commanded us a law,.... The law was of God, it came forth from his right hand, De 33:2; it is of his enacting, a declaration of his will, and has his authority stamped upon it, who is the lawgiver, and which lays under obligation to regard it; but it was delivered to Moses, and by him to…
210 wordsSECTION 502Deuteronomy 33:5
Deuteronomy 33:5 Ver. 5. And he was king in Jeshurun,.... That is, in Israel, or over the people of Israel, of which name of theirs, See Gill on "De 32:15"; either God, as Jarchi; for the government of the Israelites was a theocracy, and their laws were immediately from God, and by him they were guided and directed in…
221 wordsSECTION 503Deuteronomy 33:6
Deuteronomy 33:6 Ver. 6. Let Reuben live, and not die,.... As a tribe, continue and not be extinct, though they should not excel, because of the sin of their progenitor; and it may have a special regard to the preservation of them, of their families on the other side Jordan, while they passed over it with their brethr…
306 wordsSECTION 504Deuteronomy 33:7
Deuteronomy 33:7 Ver. 7. And this [is the blessing] of Judah,.... Which follows; the same supplement of the words is made in the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; but Aben Ezra thinks it refers to what goes before, that this, the same thing prayed for or prophesied of Reuben, belongs also to Judah, that he should liv…
602 wordsSECTION 505Deuteronomy 33:8
Deuteronomy 33:8 Ver. 8. And of Levi he said,.... That is, Moses said of the tribe of Levi, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem: [let] thy Thummim and thy Urim [be] with thy Holy One; with Aaron, as the same Targums interpret it, who was of the tribe of Levi, and was a holy good man, a saint of the Lord, as…
364 wordsSECTION 506Deuteronomy 33:9
Deuteronomy 33:9 Ver. 9. Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him,.... Which some understand of the high priests who were of this tribe, and according to the law were not to defile themselves, or mourn for a father or mother, Le 21:11; or rather, as others, of their having no respect to them in …
7,187 wordsSECTION 507Deuteronomy 34:1
Deuteronomy 34:1 INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 34 This chapter informs us of Moses going up to the top of Pisgah, where he was shown the whole land of Canaan, De 34:1; of his death, burial, and age, De 34:5; of Israel's mourning for him, and the time of it, De 34:8; of his successor Joshua, De 34:9; and of the characte…
657 wordsSECTION 508Deuteronomy 34:2
Deuteronomy 34:2 Ver. 2. And all Naphtali,.... Which lay in the northern part of the land, and where was Galilee of the Gentiles, and so he had a sight of all that country most frequented by the Messiah when come, see Mt 4:13; and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh: which lay in the midland part of the country: and al…
297 wordsSECTION 509Deuteronomy 34:3
Deuteronomy 34:3 Ver. 3. And the south,.... The southern part of the land, even all of it; and having shown him that, he is directed eastward to take a view of the plain of the valley of Jericho; which lay before him, a delightful plain; see Jos 5:10; the city of palm trees; so Jericho was called, because of the mul…
216 wordsSECTION 510Deuteronomy 34:4
Deuteronomy 34:4 Ver. 4. And the Lord said unto him,.... The Word of the Lord, as the Jerusalem Targum, having shown him all the land of Canaan: this [is] the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed; to Abraham, Ge 15:18; to Isaac, Ge 26:3; to Jacob, Ge 28:13;…
141 wordsSECTION 511Deuteronomy 34:5
Deuteronomy 34:5 Ver. 5. So Moses the servant of the Lord died there, in the land of Moab,.... Which formerly belonged to Moab, and was taken from them by Sihon king of the Amorites, and now in the possession of Israel: here on a mountain in this land Moses died; and yet, contrary to the express words of this text, so…
527 wordsSECTION 512Deuteronomy 34:6
Deuteronomy 34:6 Ver. 6. And he buried him,.... Aben Ezra says he buried himself, going into a cave on the top of the mount, where he expired, and so where he died his grave was; but though he died on the mount, he was buried in a valley: Jarchi and so other Jewish writers {d} say, the Lord buried him; it may be by th…
545 wordsSECTION 513Deuteronomy 34:7
Deuteronomy 34:7 Ver. 7. And Moses [was] an hundred and twenty years old when he died,.... Which age of his may be divided into three equal periods, forty years in Pharaoh's court, forty years in Midian, and forty in the care and government of Israel, in Egypt and in the wilderness; so long he lived, though the common…
218 wordsSECTION 514Deuteronomy 34:8
Deuteronomy 34:8 Ver. 8. And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days,.... According both to Josephus {n} and the Samaritan Chronicle {o}, they cried and wept in a very vehement manner, when he signified to them his approaching death, and took his leave of them; and when he was dead they…
157 wordsSECTION 515Deuteronomy 34:9
Deuteronomy 34:9 Ver. 9. And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom,.... The successor of Moses, and who, by the spirit of wisdom on him, was abundantly qualified for the government of the people of Israel; in which he was a type of Christ, on whom the spirit of wisdom and understanding is said to rest…
169 wordsSECTION 516Deuteronomy 34:10
Deuteronomy 34:10 Ver. 10. And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses,.... Not in the times of Joshua, who wrote this chapter, at least the last eight verses, De 34:5, as say the Jews {p}; nor to the times of Samuel, whom others take to be the writer: of them; nor to the times of Ezra, as others; no…
383 wordsSECTION 517Deuteronomy 34:11
Deuteronomy 34:11 Ver. 11. In all the signs and the wonders which the Lord sent him to do,.... The same Targums also paraphrase here, "which the Word of the Lord sent him to do;'' for he it was that appeared to him in the bush, and sent him to Egypt to work miracles, which he did by him: in the land of Egypt, to Ph…
255 wordsSECTION 518Deuteronomy 34:12
Deuteronomy 34:12 Ver. 12. And in all that mighty hand,.... In all done by his hand, which he stretched out over the sea and divided, to make a passage through it for the Israelites, and with his rod in it smote the rocks, and waters gushed out for them: and in all that great terror which Moses showed in the sight of…
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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.