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The Pulpit Commentary — Deuteronomy
William Lindsay Alexander [1808-1884] · 519,671 words · 561 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Deuteronomy — Section 1
'l'IIE PULPIT COMM EN '!1 AIl Y, EDITED BY THI: VERY REV. H. D. M. SPENCE, D.D., l>EAN 011' GLOUCEBTEB 0 AND BY THB UEV. JOSEPH S. EXELL, M.A. WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY THE VERY REV. F. W. FARRAR, D.D., F.R.S., DEAN OF CANTERBURY, RlGH'l' REV. H. CO'l"l'ERILL, D.D., F.R.S.E. VERY REV. PRINCIPAL J. 'l'ULLOCH, D.…
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assembled multitude-and having uttered a general exhortation to obedience (oh. v. 1-83), ho proceeds to admonish the people to love Jehovah the one God, to be obedient to hie Law, to teach it diligently to their children, and to avoid all intercourse with the idolatrous nations of Canaan, on the pos- session of which t…
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to dedice.te to the Lord the :6.l'!!t-born of sheep and oxen ; fl.Jld they are imitruoted to observe the three great feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles (oh.xiv. 1-xvi. 17). From these religious regulations Moses p&BBeB on to othel'!! more of a civil and social character, giving directions w; to the appo…
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compnrat.ively recent times. Many objections, however, have been advanced ngairn,t it of lat.e; and this renders it necessary thl\t the evidonco, both in ,support of the traditionary belief and against it, should be carefully ccillected and weighed. I. In favour of the Mosaio authorship of the book there ie- 1. Th…
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In Amos and Hosea there are allnBions to pa88agee in this book which prove that it was known in their day. Of these the following may be not~d :- Amos iv. 6-10 anJ v. 11 compared with oh. :uviii. 15, eto. In D~ute- ronomy certain judgment.s are announced as to come on Israel if apostate and impenitent; in Amos cer…
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book pretending to be from God, which was unknown to their fat.hers, and which had come into existence in Judah after the separation of the tribes, oanuot be belie'l'od; national enmity and sect:uian jealousy, to my nothing of pious zeal for God, would have effectually pre'l'ented that, the more especially in respe…
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Lord he is God; there is none else beside him;" oh. xxxii. 4, 15, 18, 31, 11 He is the Rock, his work is perfect . . . the Rock of his salvation . . . the Rock that begat thee . . . For their rock is not a.sour Rock," etc. 1 Sam. ii. 6, "The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringet…
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inheritance, and that the name of the dead bo not cut off from among hie brethren, and from tho gate of his place.' According to eh. xxv. 9, the transaction between the brother-in-law and tho sister-in-law must tako place in the presence of the elders; in Ruth iv. 2 it is said, 'Ho took ten men of the elders of the cit…
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offering; oh. xviii. 1; often in the Pentateuch; onoe in Josh. xiii. 14; andonoe in 1 Sam. ii. 28. Cl~~~:;,, two things heterogeneous; eh. xxii. 9; elsewhere only in Lev. xix. 19. ~t\); a young bird; eh. xxxii. 11; Gen xv. 9; not found elsewhere. ~:it, a male; eh. xvi. 19; xx. 13; elsewhere only Exod. xxiii. 17; xxx…
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xi. 8, etc., 30, 31 ; xiii. 12; xviii. 9; xix. 1; xxvii. 2). UnlCBB, then, the book be rnt aside as a pure fiction, it must be accepted ft.B of an age not later than the time of the arrival of the Israelites on the eastern side of the Jordan. From these considerations the high antiquity of this book may be fairly …
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supposition that it is the production of a ·writer of an age later than that of MoBeB. JI. TheBe oonsiderations give strong support to the traditional belief that this book is what it professes to be-the work of Moses. It is possible, however, that other considerations, drawn from the book itself, may outweigh the…
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Ch. i. 22, etc. Here the sending of the spies is said to have been at the 1,ugg<'st.ion of the people, whereas in Numb. xiii. 1, 8 it is by command from God that the spies are said to be sent. There is, however, no real dip;:crepancy here; the passage in Deuteronomy shnply contains an addition to the narrative in N…
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that all the flesh of the firstlings belongs to the priests, nor in DE1uteronomy that the people are to eat all of it" (Curtiss). According to Exod. xxix. 27, 28, and Lev. vii. 28-34, the breast and the right shoulder of all thank offerings belonged t9 the priest; according to eh. XYiii. 3, he was to receive the fo…
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should have the privilege of partaking with the priest of the sacrifices offered there, though this, according to the Law, was the privilege of the priest only ( of. Lev. vi. 18, 29; vii. 6). As the Law allotted these to the priest, but did not prohibit the giving of a portion of them to the attendant Levit(l, the pres…
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made. A later writer would never have committed the gross absurdity of representing Moses as encouraging the people to undertake the conquest of Canaan, by telling them that they had already conquered that land and were in possession of it. Ch. xix. 14 and xx, 5, 6. Here, it is alleged, certain relations which imp…
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early as the time of Moses. On examination, however, it will be found not to be by any means so conclusive as has been pretended. (1) It is to be observed that the mere fact of the non-observance of a law, even by good men, does not necessarily involve the assumption that the law was not then known or did not then exi…
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settling of the people in the promisetl land. It was this law which they who had built the altar so earnestly disclaimed having broken; it was zeal for this law which stirred the other tribes to such wrath against their brethren when they supposed it had been violated by them. 5. Great stress has also been laid on …
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pre1,umed acque.intanoe on the part of the later writer with the writings of the earlier. It would be otherwise were thero a large number of words, phrases, and sentiments pec,iliar to both writings,'_i.e. found in both of them but nowhere else. This, however, is not the case with the writings of Jeremiah and Deut,…
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of the 1111tion~ so expelled; and this it was of use for Moses to give, because it showed the Israelites that the right of the children of Lot to tho undis- turbed occupancy of their territory rested on the same grounds as rosted the right of the Israelites to the lands they had taken from tho Aruoritcs, and as wou…
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ma1ians haYe recognized" the prophetic perfect" QS an idiom of tho Hebrew. Nor is it in prophecy alone that this presentation of the future as aotual is to he found ; the poet also claims liberty to do the same, and exercises it freely. Even if l\Ioses, then, be regarded as only an uninspired poet, the use of the p…
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(ver. 23) ; and of Asher, that he should "dip his foot in oil," and that his "~hoes should be iron and bra.ss" (vers. 24, 25). It must be allowed, however, that these descriptions are far from precise, and indicate nothing beyond a Yery general acquaintance with the form of the country as a ~-hole, and the characte…
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it to Moses, who they think was enabled to narrate his own death and burial by DiYine inspiration; and in this they have been followed by not a few of a former a.ge. In the Talmud, Joshua is said to be the author of this chapt.er, which he appended to the writing of Moses .after his death (' Baba Bathra,' fol. 14, …
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EXPOSITION.' the mind of the writer, was equivalent to CHAPTER I. "the congregation of Israel" (comp. e.g. Vere. 1-5.-In these verses wehavethein- Exod. xii. 3 with ver. 21; Lev. ix. 1 with ecription nnd genernl introduction to the book, ver. 5). But through whatever medium con- announring the contents of the hook, …
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of thC' ,Tordnn on to Ak6.bRh, or the Ailnuitic eeema probnble thnt originnlly only I\ marshy Gulf: but here it is only tbe.t pnrt of it district lay between the Gulf of Suez nnd ,-· hi<'h exknds from the south end of the the Mediterranean; nnd soruowhere in this D<>Rd Sen to Ailah (oh. ii. S). This pnrt probnbly th…
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iirovisions, it ho.s been conjeolured th~t the pea.red about the beginning of last century, Jsro.olilce when at Oboth (Numb. xx1. 10, 'l'he words " between Pa.ran o.nd Tophel " 11) mo.y' ho.vo resorted to it for 11. supply, have been taken to indicate the termini 11 nd tho.t it w11s here tho.t they purchased of the wa…
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,., 28-33; 'l'i. 1). It was also aftor the Began; rather set himself to. The Hebrew deBtruction of Sihon and •Og (Numb. xxi. word signifies to undertl\110, to betl\lto 21-35). This 1tlso is significant. Dy the one's self to, 1tnd so to begin. It is destru('tion or these ldnge, who sought to variously rendered in the…
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out or Egypt (d. Exod. xix. 1 and Numb. what God promieed to Abraham and his seed x. II). (Gen. xv. 18; Exod. xxiii. 31; Deut. xi. 24). Ver. 7.-0o to the mount of the Amorite1, Ver. 8.-Behold, I have set the land before and unto all that dwell thereon; literally, its you: literally, have giuen the land be/or• dwell…
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to the time a/fer the people depnrted from mero contention, bnt litigntion, ault-nt-lnw. Horeh. but tn the time genel'Rlly when they Some understand nil these three, of troubles were in thnt region (sec Exod. xnii. 5, 13). and burdOOl! laid upon Moses, by his being "The imperfect (il;)k~, I spa.kc), with vaic called…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 1-5.-The Word of God full of hidden treasure. We cannot get very far in these preliminary verses ere we are struck with a phrase which is a most suggestive one, and should not be lightly passed over, viz." On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law," literally, to dig i…
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right spirit, explore these sacred pages, we shall ourselves become richer In knowledge, in gladness, in hope. If we cultivate a willingness to do God's will, and seek to know the truth for the purpose or doing ihe right, we shall find that much that Is "hidden from the wise and prudent" is, by means of the Dook, " rev…
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enormous wickedness (eh. ix. 1, 6). (9) Israel was consequently only the means in the J)ivino han<l of cnrrying out nn explicit Divine purpose. (10) To Rpu.re the Canaanitcs woul<l lmvo been to infect Israel with their u.bominations. (11) God would deliver the nntions into Israel's hand, (12) On a land and among a peop…
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so far as our present topic is concerned, whnt may be the peculiar form or government adopted, or what ml\y be the mode of choosing men for office in the State. For 1. The position such men occupy is an exalted one. It is self-evident that when they have to t.'\ke part in governing or carrying out the laws of tho land,…
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the known will of God shone out lustrously In Moses' life. All that Moses heard, ho communicated by word, nnd temper, and influence, and deed. II. MATERIAJ, PENURY A CONDITION FOR HEAVENLY ENnICHMENT. The scene for the revclntion of God, is the wilderness. Stript of earthly luxuries, the mind opens its portnls to hca.…
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Ycrs. 1-4.-The Deuteronomic discoursea. I. TrrE SPEAKER. "Moses." Though an hundred and twenty years old, "bis eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated" (eh. xxxiv. 7)-a statement borne out by the sustained eloquence of these addresses. He speaks with the authority of a prophet, the affection of a patriot, and …
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Vers. 6-9.-A summons to advance. Moses begins··by reminding the Israelites bow God bad formerly summoned them to march upon Canaan. The summons came to them at Horeb, after_ a sojourn of eleven months. The verses may be applied to illustrate- !. 'l'HE Cmrncn's DANGER-to abide at the mount, to settle down into a state…
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JU. THE CnuRcR's DUTY-to obey her Lord, and go forward at onco to this great work. 1. He gives no alternative. 2. The command is ClXpress. 3, The world sorely ncc•ils our work. 4. Every motive of gratitude and compassion should urge us to it. --..T. 0. Ycrs. 10, 11.-lsrael's increase. These verses embody the expres…
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wron" to individuals; of judging eo as to injure truth and ret11rd progress and im- prove~nont. Tho toxt teaches us, on the contrary- I. 'l'IIAT 0AUBES, DEFORE BEING JUDGED, ABE TO BE FAmLY HEARD. How many jud"mcnt~ nru passed daily in utter ignorance of the real facts of the case, and without nn/ nttcmpt to ascertain…
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EXPOSITION. ,ere. l!J-2S.-Here Moses passos from fu\, Passing by the way of the Amorites, the judges to the people at large; from as they had been commanded (vor. 7), they charging officio.ls to judge righteously, to came to K!\.desh-bnrnea. (see Numb. xii. 16). Their discontent broke out oftener tlmn reminding the p…
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up to heaven; Iitero.Ily, arc great and fortified i~;i, like the Greek pi;µ.a, signifies either in the heavens. To their excited imo.gina• thing or word. If the former ren,lerin,,. be tion, tho walls and towers of tbo cities adopter! here, the mcanin"' will be Not- seemed o.s if they rco.ched tho very sky; so withstand…
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nnd 1hc wTnth ,-·hieh broke forth npon the Abmhnm's scrrnnt, "Wo oo.nnot speak unlo rPoph'~n <listinetion 'l\·hfoh is aptly prc- theo _bad ,or goo,\" (Gen, xxiv. 60), tho FN'"C'd in the A11thorizoo Version by the mennmg 1s, We can say nothing nt nil. ,n;rds "wns wroth" ('l~R) and" was 1mgry" Absnlom spnko to Amnon "nei…
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name Sebaita or Sepato., tho Arabic rorm nsconcl); Syrino,.cm~~ ,i::Ofi\\~\llo of Zepha.Lh, the name of a. heap of ruins (nncl yo incitccl yourselves to go up). on tho western slope or the rocky mountnin- Ver. 42.-Moscs, by tho command of God, pl(llea.u Rakhmah, about two hours (lnrl a wnrnecl the people thnt, if th…
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nnd degmdat.ion of Egypt; their deliverance had been effected for thom by tho frco love, spont.nncous care, and watchfnl providence of God. Surely it shoulcl not havo been hnrd to argue on this wise: "He who has shown us Ruch wondrous mercy will not be wnnting to us to the end." It was surely needless to send out an…
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Vere. 32-85.-Tl,e gi·ieuous consequences of unbelief. Moses rehearses in the bearing of Isrnel the etmnge story of "their manners in the wilderness," and reminds them how their unbelief bad provoked the Lotd to anger, and bad deprived vast numbers of them of the rest they had hoped to enjoy. We ought to be at no los…
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Vers. 41-46.-Forced back! In the preceding paragraph we had an illustration of unbelief in doubting the promise of God, and of the effect of that unbelief in exclud- ing from the promised rest. Here we have an illustration of a like unbelief working in precisely the opposite direction; as Israel feared to go up uotw…
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Vers. 19-40.-L·i·ecoverableness of wasted opportunity. I. THE CULMmATIO~ OF OPPORTUNITY OFTEN FINDS A MAN UNPREPARED TO OCCUPY IT. The point of time referred to here was the supreme moment in Israel's history. They had relinquished Egypt, endured privation, performed n. toilsome journey, for one object, viz. to possess…
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I. 'l'mll FAOT OF TUJB WILDERNESS DISCIPLINE. We need not exaggerate. \Ve admit nil thnt crm be snid of the world ns a fair and delightful residence, in which we havo much to mako us happy. Dut it cannot be denied that the picture has a darker side. '!'ho man who has drunk deepest of the world's pleasures is he who can…
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J'lny into the hnnds of those wl10 don't want to <lo anything, :md to furnish them with cxcu~e~ :rn<l arguments for delay. It was ~o hero. 'l'he real secret of the desire of the people to h1we spies sent out was their lurking disbelief and fear. 'l'ho spies themsclvee ~hared in this fear. \Vith the exception of Caleb a…
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and God's work done, though wo in our folly anrl sln rebel and stand aloof (~fott. iii. I)). "H remaineth that some must enter in" (Heb. iv. 6). (2) Their unbelief nn,1 disobmlienco e!Tcctunlly excludecl themselves. God aware it in his wrnth, nnd tho sentence admitted of no reversal. A foresharlowin~ of the final ex…
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Vers. 19-33.-The unbel.ief in sending and in hearkening to the spies. Moses reminds his andience of the conduct of their fathers nt Kadcsh-barnea, when exhorted to go up and possess the land. Duty was clear. They had been brought up out of Egypt for the very purpose of entering into and possessing the land of Canaan…
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EXPOSITION. while the rest remained there, so that no CHAPTER II. entire depe.rture of Israel from Kadesh ever Vere. 1-23.-THE NEW DEGINNINO AMD took place-a. notion which the whole tenor REVIEW OF THE JOURNEYINGS OF ISRAEL of the subsequent narrative contradicts. In FROM KADESH TO THE RIVER ARN0N, THE obedience to …
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E/<1lh or E/ollt (n?•~, ni,•~, pnlmgrove)--,tbe h11ving been cll8t out hy him that they Aillil.O of Josephus, 'Antlq.,' ix. 12; tho might tClko their lands (see vers. 21-23). 'Ellava of l'tolemy (v. 17)-wns a city of Idu- Thero is no need, therefore, for the insertion rnco, situnted on tho cnslorn gulf of the Red "I sa…
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M m"c,h in the WRY of Moses to introduce wrilho 1\8 in p:iin (1~m, comp. Is11. xiii. 8). ,mob cthnogrnphical notices as in thnt of l\Ioscs, howornr, in th; first instl\noo, sent 11 any writer of n lntor ngo. message of pcnco to Sihon, proposing to pnss Ver. 20.-Bcfore tho Ammonites, tho Jnnd through his territory on…
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ohrlur,1to nnd persistent in his hostility to of course implied utter deirlrnction. Th~ tho pcoplo of Goel ; the oxpreaaion " ho men, nnrl the women, and the Wile ime,, of wnul,l not" indicntca thnt it wna of his own every dty; literally, e1JP,T!f city of men an,l will thnt Sihon nctod; but it wn~ !ho will ,oomen and l…
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Yers. 1-23 (specially '\"'er. 7).-God's knowledge of our pilgrimage. (l?or tho historical nnd geographical detr1.ils cor.nected with this section, sco the Exposition.) Moses here rcYiews the cr1.reer of Israel during tho wanderings, with reference to their trcatnwnt of the nations through whose territory they required …
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-23.-International relationships. The wilderness state is the most salutary for men. Prematurely to enter into the land of rest woul,l prove an endless calamity. Theoretically, it is possible to gain heaven too soon. Even "the Captain of our salv:i.- tion was matlo perfect through s…
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Vers. 24-37.-Warrantable warfare. Sihon, King of Heshbon, opposed with y,Lysical force the fulfilment of Israel's destiny; and, having provoked war, provokes it to his own destn;ction. I. 'faE NECESSITY Yon WAB. The question whether war is ever just and legitimate must be answered in the affirmative. Still, this does …
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Yer~. 4-10, 17-20.-Edom, Moa'b, Ammon. The Israelites.arc strictly enjoined not to molest these three peoples, or to attempt to rob them of any portion of their territory. The ground of this injunction is that God had given them the territory they possessed, and had 11ot gi\'en it to the Israelites. Additional reaso…
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not l\llow ono foot of their land to be tnkcn from them l\<7ainHt his will how much more might the Jows, if obedient to the covenant, depend on °being preserve:! in theirs! If God gl\ve, who could take 11way? 2, It taught them to dislingui.~h thei,· commis.9ion to deslroy tlio Oanaanites from one of rude conquest. It l…
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,crs. 2G-3i.-Tlie conquest of Sihon. Sihon, though an .Amorite, was not to be. unconditionally destroyed. He had, like Pharaoh, an opportunity given him of avert- ing ruin by acceding to a most courteous and reasonable request·; but, liko Pharaoh in this respect also, be hardened his heart, and took the course which…
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Vera. 1-23.-God'sfaithfulness in dealing with nations outside the covenant. We have here strict injunctions given to the pilgrims not to disturb the children of Edom, nor the Moabites, nor the children of Ammon, because they were occupying the district assigned them. These tribes, though related to Israel, were not in …
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