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 bringeth up." Ch. xxxii. 39, "See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god ~·ith me: I kill, and I make alive ; I wound, and I heal," eto. 1 Sam. ii. 29, " Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I ha,e commanded?" Ch. xxxii. 15, "Jcshurun waxed fat, and kicked." The verb Ol):l, to kick, occurs only in these two places. 1 Sam. ,iii. 1, "And it came to pass that Samuel when he was old ma.do his sons judges over lsi;ael." Oh. xvi. 18, "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates." In making his sons judges, Samuel was carrying into effect the law enunciated in Deuteronomy. As Samuel thus obeyed the Law, so his sons transgressed it, for they took bribes (shohad, 1 Sam. viii. 3), contrary to the injunction, " Thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift [bribe, shohad]," eto. (eh. xvi. 19). 1 Sam. viii. 5, "Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations." Ch. xvii. 14, "And shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me." 1 Sam. x. 1, "The Lord bath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance." Ch. xx.xii 9, "The Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." 1 Sam. x. 25, "Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom," etc. The manner (the law, the legitimate order, mishpat) of the kingdom was what had been prescribed; and it is only in Deuteronomy that this prescription is given (cf. eh. xvii. 14, etc.). 1 Sam. xv. 2, "Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt." Oh. x.xv. 17, "Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt." 1 Sam. xxYiii. 3, "Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land." Ch. xviii. 10, 11, "There.shall not be found in thee . . . a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard." J ndg. i. 20, "And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said." Oh. i. 36, "Save Caleb the son of J ephu.nneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he bath trodden upon." J udg. ii. 2, " I said . . . And ye shall make no league· (lo tikrethu l,eritl1) with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars." etc. Ch. vii. 2, "Thou shalt . . . utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them (ln tilcroth laltem beritli);" eh. xii. 3, "And ye shall overthrow [tlirow down] their altars." Judg. ii. 3, "And their gods shall be a snare unto you." Ch. vii. 16, "Neither sbalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee." Judg. ii. 15, "The hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn unto them." Ch. x.xviii. 15, etc. Judg. ii. 18, "For it repented the Lord beca.u110 of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY. xiii
Texed them." Oh. xxxii. 36, " For the Lord shall judge hie people, and repent himeel£ for hie servants, when he eeeth that their power is gone." Judg. iv. 14, "And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the Lord bath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the Lord gone out before thee?" Oh. ix. 3, "Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before thee." Judg. v. 4, 5, "Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. The mountains melted before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel." Ch. xxxiii. 2, "The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran," etc. Judg. v. 8, "They chose new gods ( elohim hadashim)." Oh. xxxii. 17, "They sacrificed . . . to gods whom they knew not, to new (l1adashim) gods that came newly np," etc. Judg. xi. 15, "Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon," etc. Oh. ii. 9, 19, "And the Lord said, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession . . . When thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them : for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession." Judg. xiv. 3. 'rhe parents of Samson expostulate with him as to his intention to take a wife "of the uncircumcised Philistines." But there was no reason why he should not do this, if it so pleased him, except that it was expressly prohibited by the law of God as recorded in eh. vii. 3. It would thus appear that that law was known and recognized as binding on the people of God in the days of the judges. Ruth iv. 2-12, "And he took ten men of the elders of the city," etc. The entire narrative in this context points to the law of the levirate in eh. xxv. 5....'...10. "The real relation of the goel [kinsman] in Ruth to the yabam [husband's brother] in the law is unquestionable. 'Each was bound to raise offspring to the dead from the wife of the dead. The reason in both cases was the same, that the name of the dead might not perish from Israel, nor from his family. In fine, in both cases, if the party refused to marry the wife of the deceased, this was attested by the taking off of the shoe' (Perizonius, 'Dissert.,' vii. p. 79). No less undeniable and still more decisive is the verbal reference to the law, which is equivalent to an actual citation of it. OomJ?are only eh. xxv. 6, 'Arnl the firstbom which she beareth nr~ 11,:,~ c~-~l.! c~p:,' with Ruth iv. 5, • Of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the clead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inherit- ance (in~r)J·';,p nt.;>ti-Cl~ c1~1;7).' 'l'he name of the dead could only be raised up, according to the law, by a son being ascribed to him. This kind service Boaz was prepared to render to him; the goel must either do what Boaz proffered, or he must transfer to him, as the next goel, the right of redemption. Still more complete is the reference to eh. xxv. 6 in Ruth iv. 10, 'I take to me Ruth as my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his xiv INTRODUCTION TO