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In Deuteronomy 5:6-7, Moses begins to repeat to this 2nd generation of liberated Israelites the same covenantal demands that Yahweh had given to their parents at Mount Horeb 40 years earlier. The initial covenant bearers (their parents) had perished in…
In Deuteronomy 4:25-31, Moses prophetically warns the people of Israel that future generations may do evil in the sight of the LORD by making carved images, provoking Him to anger. If, when they have “grown old in the land,” and…
In Deuteronomy 4:15-24, Moses counsels this generation of Israelites to watch themselves very carefully, remembering that they had seen no physical form of God, and thus, to vigilantly keep from making carved images in the form or likeness of anything…
In Deuteronomy 4:9-14, Moses exhorts this generation of Israelites about to enter the Promised Land to guard their souls with the greatest of diligence, that they must not forget all that they have seen, and that they must instill in…
Beginning with Deuteronomy 4, Moses is no longer speaking of the past Israelite experiences. He now addresses the congregation in the present with exhortations and reminders. He instructs the Israelites (this 2nd generation) to listen to both the statutes and…
Moses continues recounting before this new generation what had happened. This time, he reflects on a personal story. Moses pleaded with the LORD, first attributing how the LORD had only just begun to reveal His power and might and magnificence…
Following the Israelites’ foolish decision to again defy God’s command and receiving a sound defeat at the hands of the Amorites, Moses relays that the Israelites turned from Kadesh to journey back into the wilderness towards the Red Sea, traveling…
After the people of Israel rebelled against the LORD their God, the God who went before them, who carried them as a father carries his son, and who fought for them, the LORD swore an oath through Moses that not…
In this passage, Moses speaks of a previous generation, one that wasted in the wilderness, but he speaks to this next generation as if they were complicit actors in the previous drama of 38 years prior. Moses recounts how at…
Moses continued his address to the “2nd” generation, reminding them how he painfully realized early on in the wilderness that the size of the people was more than he could bear and properly lead. He recognized that God had indeed…
After providing an overview to the significantly important book of Deuteronomy, we began our lengthy study in this book by covering the first 8 verses. It was in the Arabah in the 40th year, on the 1st day of the…
After being in Rome for 3 days, Paul requested the Jewish religious leaders to come to his place of personal confinement. They obliged, and he explained to them all that had occurred in leading him to appeal to Caesar, which…