Deuteronomy – Key Verses and Topics Circumcise your heart Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. (Deu 10:16) And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. (Deu 30:6)
Compassion for others Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. (Deu 10:19)
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water. (Deu 12:16) 2. They must not eat blood (Deu_12:16, and again, Deu_12:23): Only be sure that thou eat not the blood (Deu_12:24), Thou shalt not eat it; and (Deu_12:25), Thou shalt not eat it, that it may go well with thee. When they could not bring the blood to the altar, to pour it out there before the Lord, as belonging to him, they must pour it out upon the earth, as not belonging to them, because it was the life, and therefore, as an acknowledgment, belonged to him who gives life, and, as an atonement, belonged to him to whom life is forfeited. Bishop Patrick thinks one reason why they were forbidden thus strictly the eating of blood was to prevent the superstitions of the old idolaters about the blood of their sacrifices, which they thought their demons delighted in, and by eating of which they imagined that they had communion with them. –AdamClark
Blood prohibited. the prohibition was repeatedly renewed by Moses with reference to the great objects of the law (Lev_17:12), the prevention of idolatry, and the consecration of the sacrificial blood to God. – JFB Commentary Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. (Deu 12:23)
God’s provision See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.' (Deu 1:8) May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you! (Deu 1:11)
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Republican form of government Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.' (Deu 1:13) You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.' (Deu 1:17) On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. (Deu 17:6) The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. And all the people shall hear and fear and not act presumptuously again. (Deu 17:12-13) The man that will do presumptuously - The man who refused to abide by this final determination forfeited his life, as being then in a state of rebellion against the highest authority, and consequently the public could have no pledge for his conduct. –Clark
Joshua chosen Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. (Deu 1:38)
Rebellion, refusal to obey "Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. (Deu 1:26) So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country. (Deu 1:43) Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD. (Deu 9:7) And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God and did not believe him or obey his voice. (Deu 9:23)
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You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. (Deu 9:24) For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD. How much more after my death! (Deu 31:27)
God’s love for Esau, the Edomites "You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful. Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. (Deu 2:4-5)
God’s care for Lot And the LORD said to me, 'Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot for a possession.' (Deu 2:9)
God’s protection over Israel This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.' (Deu 2:25) You shall not fear them, for it is the LORD your God who fights for you.' (Deu 3:22) Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? (Deu 4:34)
Commanded to obey and blessing of obedience. Law obeyable "For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it. (Deu 30:11-14)
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"And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. (Deu 4:1) See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. (Deu 4:5) Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.' (Deu 4:6) "Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children-(Deu 4:9) And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess. (Deu 4:14) When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice. (Deu 4:30) Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time." (Deu 4:40) And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. (Deu 5:1) Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever! (Deu 5:29) You shall be careful therefore to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. You shall walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess. (Deu 5:32-33) "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, (Deu 6:1)
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that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. (Deu 6:2) Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. (Deu 6:3) You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. (Deu 6:17) And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers (Deu 6:18) And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day. (Deu 6:24) And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.' (Deu 6:25) You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today. (Deu 7:11) You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today. "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers. He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you. You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. (Deu 7:11-14) "The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers. (Deu 8:1) So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. (Deu 8:6)
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"And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good? (Deu 10:12-13) "You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always. (Deu 11:1) "You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. (Deu 11:8-9) "And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. (Deu 11:13-14) For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him, then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. (Deu 11:22-23) "See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known. (Deu 11:26-28) you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today. (Deu 11:32) Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God. (Deu 12:28) "Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it. (Deu 12:32) You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. (Deu 13:4)
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if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God. (Deu 13:18) if only you will strictly obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today. For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you. (Deu 15:5-6) And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments, (Deu 26:18) Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep the whole commandment that I command you today. (Deu 27:1) You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today." (Deu 27:10) "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. (Deu 28:1) And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God. (Deu 28:2) The LORD will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in his ways. (Deu 28:9) And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them, (Deu 28:13) "But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. (Deu 28:15) Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. (Deu 29:9)
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return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, (Deu 30:2) And you shall again obey the voice of the LORD and keep all his commandments that I command you today. (Deu 30:8) The LORD your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers, when you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deu 30:9-10) If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. (Deu 30:16-18) he said to them, "Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. (Deu 32:46)
Warned, no idolatry And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. (Deu 4:19) You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. (Deu 7:3-4)
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Personal responsibility and responsibility But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deu 4:29) And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. (Deu 8:2) "Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, (Deu 8:11) And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish. (Deu 8:19) You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear. (Deu 10:20) Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them; (Deu 11:16) "You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes, (Deu 12:8) you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deu 13:3) The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. And all the people shall hear and fear and not act presumptuously again. (Deu 17:12-13) The man that will do presumptuously - The man who refused to abide by this final determination forfeited his life, as being then in a state of rebellion against the highest authority, and consequently the public could have no pledge for his conduct. –Clark "When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,' (Deu 17:14)
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Deu 17:15 Καθιστων {<2525> V-PAPNS} having set καταστησεις{<2525> V-FAI-2S} you will set επι σεαυτον{<4572> D-ASM} upon yourselves αρχοντα{<758> N-ASM} a king "And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, (Deu 17:18-19) And if you say in your heart, 'How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?'-- when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him. (Deu 18:21-22) provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways--then you shall add three other cities to these three, (Deu 19:9) then you shall say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, nor have I forgotten them. (Deu 26:13) "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deu 26:16) You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice. (Deu 26:17) "'Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' (Deu 27:26) and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. (Deu 28:14)
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"All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. (Deu 28:45) "If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God, then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. (Deu 28:58-59) Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God. (Deu 28:62) one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, 'I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike. (Deu 29:19) I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." (Deu 30:19-20) Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, (Deu 31:12) And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because they have turned to other gods. (Deu 31:18) "For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them. If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end! (Deu 32:28-29)
God is Supreme, the only True God know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. (Deu 4:39)
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God’s Character but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. (Deu 5:10) Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, (Deu 7:9) He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. (Deu 10:18) Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you." (Deu 31:6) The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he. (Deu 32:4)
Cities of Refuge Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan, that the manslayer might flee there, anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past; he may flee to one of these cities and save his life: (Deu 4:41-42) you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. (Deu 19:2) "This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past-(Deu 19:4)
Practical Laws You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again. (Deu 22:4) the property of a neighbour was to be regarded and preserved –K&D "A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God. (Deu 22:5) You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. (Deu 22:10) two beasts of a different species cannot associate comfortably together, and on this ground never pull pleasantly either in cart or plough; and every farmer knows that it is of considerable consequence to the comfort of the cattle to put those together that have an affection for each other. This may be very frequently remarked in certain cattle, which, on this account, are termed
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true yoke-fellows. After all, it is very probable that the general design was to prevent improper alliances in civil and religious life. And to this St. Paul seems evidently to refer, 2Co_6:14 : Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers; which is simply to be understood as prohibiting all intercourse between Christians and idolaters in social, matrimonial, and religious life. And to teach the Jews the propriety of this, a variety of precepts relative to improper and heterogeneous mixtures were interspersed through their law, so that in civil and domestic life they might have them ever before their eyes. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small. A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the LORD your God. (Deu 25:14-16)
Urim Thummim And of Levi he said, "Give to Levi your Thummim, and your Urim to your godly one, whom you tested at Massah, with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah; (Deu 33:8) The Urim and Thummim - that pledge, which the high priest wore upon his breast-plate, that the Lord would always give His people light to preserve His endangered right (vid., Exo_28:29-30), are here regarded as a prerogative of the whole of the tribe of Levi. Thummim is placed before Urim, to indicate at the outset that Levi had defended the right of the Lord, and that for that very reason the right of the Urim and Thummim had been given to him by the Lord.
Miscellaneous Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated. . . . And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses. (Deu 34:7-9)
Nature of testing in Deut 8 Evaluates the true condition of the heart. 8:2. – God uses or creates circumstances that call for a decision and action that will express a person’s true commitment and heart intention, not simply their assent. Gen. 18. • One of the purposes is to develop our confidence in God. 8:3. Q. How is this confidence expressed? • It is a part of all discipleship, to teach us to “walk in the ways of God.” 8:5. • Reflecting God’s character, it is for our good. 8:16. • Deepens intimacy of relationship as nothing else can. 8:3. Gen. 22. The importance of Deuteronomy is that it makes clear that the law was never intended to be a mechanical list of wooden rules. Rather, it provides entry into the whole matter of true piety and lrue morality. It promulgates a worldview encompassing what is entailed in an appropriate approach to God
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and what is entailed in an appropriate treatment of and relationship to one*s neighbor. It is easy to see why Jesus endorsed the summary of the law offered by the Jewish lawyer: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and, love your neighbor as yourself” (Luke 10:27)