Tag: Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 30 – 31Moses tells the people that he is offering them a choice. I suspect that Joshua took that to heart and thus his final sermon to the people is an invitation to choose who they will serve and a declaration by Joshua that he had already made his choice. I again here the…

Deuteronomy 29There must be great strength to be had among a people when they can all publicly and simultaneously make a covenant with the Lord to walk in His ways and be His people.

Deuteronomy 28What an amazing list of temporal blessings which surely apply to all who follow the Lord in all things. This is not for those who simpl have good intentions but for those who follow everything they know of righteousness and who willingly learn any new thing pertaining to righteousness. On the order hand, if…

Deuteronomy 27The very first order of business when the people cross over Jordan shall be to build an altar and offer sacrifice and to write the law upon stone pillars and to have the people publicly acknowledge and accept the basic tenets of the law – specifically not making images to worship, honoring parental authority,…

Deuteronomy 25 – 26If a brother refuses to take his brothers widow to wife when the first husband has died childless the wife is finally supposed to come and loose his shoe and spit in his face and say “so shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brothers house.”…

Deuteronomy 23 – 24“He that is wounded in the stones or hath his privy member cut off” sounds like genital mutilation and might be meant to indicate eunuchs. I really with there were an “or”, “ie”, or “heb” in the footnotes to clarify that. Those with Edomite or Egyptian blood who joined Israel could enter…

Deuteronomy 22Moses specifically commanded the people to not avoid helping their brethren – so the priest and the Levite in the parable of the good Samaritan were breaking the commandments. If a man lays with a woman who is not married or betrothed he is required to pay her father and marry her and he…

Deuteronomy 21The firstborn son of a beloved wife may not be promoted to birthright inheritance over the firstborn son of a hated wife who was born earlier. It seems that the only way a son can lose the birthright is if he is disobedient to both father and mother for which offense he is to…

Deuteronomy 19 – 20I hadn’t realized that the sanctuary cities were anything but hiding places. You could not choose which city you would flee to but were to flee to the city appointed based on your place of residence. In other words, people would know precisely where to find a killer who had fled. To…

Deuteronomy 17 – 18Notice that one witness could never be sufficient to put a person to death. I doubt that Saul followed the instruction that the king should read the scriptures daily. The test of whether a prophet was speaking for the Lord is that if what he speaks does not come to pass then…