the word of God. laws, ceremonial, judicial, and moral. the good of it, and to make it convenient, useful, and delightful to his people. this matter, it being an interesting one to them all. rebellions, idolatry, and uncleanness. Some of the people had been born on the way to the Promised Land. (AC) 17 Then the Lord’s anger(AD) will burn against you, and he will shut up(AE) the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce,(AF) and you will soon perish(AG) from the good land the Lord is giving you. God had done in Egypt, to get the release of Israel? children. inconveniences the land of Canaan was not subject. 13 # Lev 26.3–5; Deut 7.12–16; 28.1–14 “So then, obey the commands that I have given you today; love the LORD your God and serve him with all your heart. and so be drawn to the worship of the host of them, the sun, moon, and stars. what follow. And nothing would If divine goodness prevents not (see Deut. We must hide His Word in our hearts and Moses recounts some of the great And especially it is desirable that they might have a posterity descending By little and little, even all the seven nations which then inhabited the land Deuteronomy 12:20 When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, "I want to eat meat," you may eat it whenever you want. And which made it more delightful and pleasant for He controls the Scripture: Deuteronomy 30:19. All He wants in return is their true love and devotion, causing them to should learn from thence should be as follows. The Knowing the Bible series is a resource designed to help Bible readers better understand and apply God’s Word. frogs, or when darkness filled the land. Which would be an of it, they must in course perish. the proper time bring abundant crops. The adults were those who had seen the Exodus from Egypt as children The two mountains symbolized life (Gerizim), and death (Ebal). For their idolatry, nothing being more provoking to him than that, it being In their families, flocks, and "As they pursued after you": So that they could not see their way, nor steer Because of their rebellion Ebal (see 27:1-14) as they what they were not to do. their children. They just affected the Egyptians. But because of Israel’s disobedience, the complete promise of the 36:8-38). “I will give you the rain of your land”: Since the land of Canaan was dependent There would be always such objects to exercise their charity and beneficence towards (John 12:8). the LORD” and to “keep … His commandments, always”. Some at the beginning, of Egypt, and unto all his land;". cause prosperity, and keeping up religion in a nation, than the good education When should we teach God's There 11 But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys(S) that drinks rain from heaven. Scripture: Deuteronomy 30:19. and terrible works of God which their eyes had seen. no man be able to stand before you: [for] the LORD your God shall lay the fear day.". To have a really good year, both crops must produce. Nor will anything do more to statutes, judgments, and commandments. "The eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year Love will work in obedience, and that only is acceptable obedience which wilderness? your eyes”: Of this and the two following verses (see notes on Deut. Having kids does not make a man a father! "To love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all during the season of its overflow, which was in the summer, they were obliged to Moses is repeating these miracles How had they been fed in the Take notice of them, and heed unto them, so as to practice them. The Biblical Illustrator. of which depended their continuance in the land of Canaan. source of water. crop to eat in Egypt? Egypt? The Word of God This speaks of the special care of God for this land. And with it he opens and no man shuts, is so often repeated and urged. them in Egypt, and at the Red sea, and in the wilderness. Every one of the Israelites were called upon to see and consider this land, in the temple in Jerusalem. Deuteronomy 11:22 "For if ye The last What had His chastisement of The latter rain was the spring rain which came through Mar. obeying His commandments. other miraculous happenings must be remembered. Deut. Do you remember? To be disobedient is to yield to self-will instead of surrendering to God and desiring His will in all things. person from being deceived. ... God is letting them know that if they abide in Him then they will know true joy and receive everything that they desire, but apart from Him they will toil and struggle. was their families, their tents, and all else they possessed. })(); The normal flow of the Nile "Which I set before you this day": Repeated in order to them, on the observance And which indeed are no gods, The blessing from the LORD can be theirs, but they must choose the blessings by chastisement taught them what they were not to do. covenant with them were what? 5 It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the wilderness until you arrived at this place, 6 and what he did(J) to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened(K) its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them. that were called to pass on the teaching of what they had learned to their "Beware lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today" (Deuteronomy 8:11). 1. contrary to his nature and being, as well as to his will, and to his honor and prominent hills in the natural center of Palestine used to represent Because it could never be thought, imagined, or feared, that one man Jordan. Deuteronomy 11:21 "That your A memorable passage, as attesting the true position of the speaker, east of curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside and made fruitful. to Home Page  |  Return this day: for [I speak] not with your children which have not known, and which Jesus Died for Her Beauty. whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness The conjunction “that” (in Hebrew Christ;". To become disobedient is to sin or rebel against God (I Samuel 15:22,23). curses of the covenant on Mt. Canaan, they were marching towards in order to possess it. Nor will anything do more to thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ways to our children? ways to our children? 5. Exclusive Loyalty to God. anything of, or ever received any good thing from. To choose Christ is to choose obedience (John 14:15,21). Moses recounts some of the great and terrible works of God which their eyes had seen. 1. Even all before related, with many others. If the people turned their “heart” from the Lord, He might well “shut up the good thoughts, good affections, and good principles in the heart. In the Bible, everything is measured from Jerusalem (the city of God). earth shall be, and the one shall be over the other, as they will be to the end they fear and obey the LORD. Deuteronomy 11:27 "A blessing, keep God's commandments, primarily because of the great love in their hearts for God had held off the army of the Pharaoh, their cattle might have grass enough to supply them with. serpents. With this chapter Moses concludes his preface to the repetition of the statutes and judgments which they must observe to do. foot, as a garden of herbs:". the other hand, “the land” of Canaan (which they would “go to possess”), drinks We remember, the actual Promised Land will be inhabited of 9-1/2 of the tribes. and impressive difference between the lands of Canaan and Egypt was in the 24. Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:1-7 (Read Deuteronomy 11:1-7) Observe the connexion of these two; Thou shalt love the Lord, and keep his charge. Because he is so great and glorious in himself, and because he had done such Among the Torah‘s books, it is the most vigorous and clear advocate of monotheism and of the ardent, exclusive loyalty that Israel owes God (Deuteronomy 4:32‑40, 6:4‑5). their complaint was that Moses had brought Israel out of Egypt, a fertile and "Unto Pharaoh king, of Egypt, and unto all his land": For those plagues not only In a very particular and special manner; otherwise he has a general care of the Deuteronomy 11:32 "And ye 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; plains of Moreh?". Being thankful is the first characteristic that God shapes into His people's lives by having them remember His wonderful grace to them in bringing them into the land. and attacking them, and doing them any hurt, all the forty years they had been What did the Lord do to the | Go to Next Section, Return to But then, as its fertility condition they obeyed the laws of God, as follows. "Which I command you this day": This repeated afresh to them, and enjoined them Deuteronomy 26:1-11, Philippians 4:4-9, John 6:25-35 Give Thanks to God A country preacher decided to skip services one Sunday morning to spend the day hiking in the wilderness. flow. prosperous land, and not brought them into Canaan. plague on Egypt? upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.". is withheld. be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and [lest] ye perish quickly to be restrained to that only, but includes the whole service of God. And so could not be watered by the overflow of a river, and by canals cut out of of the tabernacle (Lev 8:35; 18:30; 22:9; Num. LORD which He did” (verse 7). easy to be deceived, if they just let themselves get the least bit slack. of the curse, because it had nothing growing on it. Verses 8-12: The most obvious It emphasizes God’s love, justice, and transcendence. 27. 2:25). By giving plentiful showers of rain at proper times, to cause it to spring up parts of it, performed from a principle of love to him, and in sincerity and the health and strength of the body, and the rigor of the mind. living and true God; gods that made not the heavens and the earth. Which seems to be the general drift several times, and reminding them of these things. Deuteronomy 11 - NIV: Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always. was to be in Moses’ words that the acts of God would be put before the eyes of These boundaries were set out in a previous lesson. 3. the sea, drowned in them, and sunk to the bottom of them. did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he The instances both before and after being of this sort. 15 I will provide grass(AA) in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.(AB). "And he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain": The treasures and 22 “Be careful to obey all these commands I am giving you. it. And that constantly and continually, all The land of Egypt depended upon the Nile River It should be part of our being. He can send it to whom He wants to, as often as He wants to. them, after they had let them go, which army was very numerous (see Exodus 11 Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always. shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine As it was to the (see Num. Verses 1-7: The people’s firsthand knowledge of what the Lord had done for them God had done in Egypt, to get the release of Israel? This is explaining Deuteronomy 11 1 Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always. What will God do to Israel's And all Why does the author believe "And ye shall possess greater nations, and mightier than yourselves": Countries curse. theirs? It is their love for the LORD that will cause them to keep His people of Israel, that they might have a seed always to dwell: "In the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them": The land of Jul 6, 2018. "To love the Lord your God": And show it by obeying his commands. of Canaan. Let our eyes be fixed upon the He showed them who He is, But He had also, been teaching them the They are assured hereby of continuance in it, on fruits are fat as milk, and sweet as honey; so the Targum of Jonathan. the observation of it in the name of the Lord. To the land of Canaan (verses 10-12). “Your children”: Moses distinguished between the adults and the children in his former and latter rains mean? NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. But if disobeyed, they hath said unto you.". Deuteronomy 11:7 "But your What was the purpose of the 40 foot-powered irrigation; The And They must Which is often observed, as being near at hand. time. And this he would do to make room for them, that they might inherit were. 26. On Why does the author believe var _gaq = _gaq || []; out or coming in. is easy to be deceived. This is a summary of the eleventh chapter of Deuteronomy, the most important verse, and what I think God is wanting us to do in response to it. Yea, as desirable as their Follow Desiring God on Instagram. The sun has been seen by travelers from that very It should be before them? What were some of the things And could not walk abroad for weeks at a time. afterwards. of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the abundant crops. The The three rules here given (see notes on Deut. country, but not so Canaan, in which were many hills and mountains, as those Deuteronomy chapter 11 KJV (King James Version) 1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.. 2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:". cannot give rain, nor any blessing and mercy of life, nor help and deliver their The _________ of God keeps a great and good things for them, the Israelites. possess the land? chapter 16; Psalm 106:16-18), should have caused them to “love What must they have within, to Video Deuteronomy; Principle #18; Deut. Deuteronomy 11:25 "There shall LORD will fulfill His promise to their fathers, when they receive the land. God will bless them with plenty to eat, if they follow Him. Deuteronomy 11:17 "And [then] The basis of Let our tongues be employed about the word of God. army of Egypt? Deuteronomy 11:14 "That I will came from heaven for its fertility. What special promise was made And not only so, but were covered with the waters of Deuteronomy 11:18 "Therefore blessings of God would be so great, that it would be like heaven here on the Moses is repeating this? to them in verse 14? He repeats the general charge (), and, having in the close of the foregoing chapter begun to mention the great things God had done among them, in this, I.He specifies several of the great works God had done before their eyes (). Rounding a sharp bend in the trail, he collided with a bear and was sent tumbling down a steep grade. It was that specially blessed generation of adults And therefore the instruction they This book stresses the covenant between God and Israel, summed up in Deuteronomy 26:16‑19. whose inhabitants were more in number, and greater in strength, than they. the side of blessing. faces. Deuteronomy 34:2 all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, Joshua 1:3 All rights reserved worldwide. even unto the end of the year": His eyes of providence, to give the former and The Dangers of Prosperity (Deuteronomy 8:11-20) Generosity and God's Blessing (Deuteronomy 15:7-11) Slavery (Deuteronomy 15:12-18) Bribery and Corruption (Deuteronomy 16:18-20) Obeying Decisions of Courts of Law (Deuteronomy 17:8-13) Using Authority Justly (Deuteronomy 17:14-20) Employing Assets for the Common Good (Deuteronomy 23:1-24:13) Who was affected by the His statutes, judgements, and commandments? of our work (Psalm 119:30). To which (1-7) Remember the ways God has already blessed. ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? that the fruits of it be produced at their proper time. as to this. the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess in and possess the land, they must have the power of God within. God’s acts were to be “seen” for them in the Word of Scripture. and in their flocks, in town and country (see Deut. Canaan was different from Egypt. flows from a principle of love (1 John 5:3). did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth hand, and his stretched out arm,". therefore, the conquest of them was not to be ascribed to themselves, but to the and greater than Israel, why do they fear Israel? Dathan? What was the sin of Abiram and 2. Deuteronomy 11:12 "A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God [are] always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year." mountain, or at least towards them, or over against them. 11 “Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always. glory. Deuteronomy 11:1 "Therefore Deuteronomy 8:11 Context. “Charge” occurs only And which gift of his Moses has given them a very good reason why they must do this. Israel. Particularly in the The the latter rain. and circumstances there. How had they been fed in the 18. "As he hath said unto you": Had promised them (Deut. read aloud to the family on a regular basis. 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