Deuteronomy

Moses seemed unwilling to leave his work; but since that was now finished, he showed no unwillingness to die. After he had made an end of...

In the last chapter, Moses had thundered out the terrors of the Lord against Israel for their sin. But now, in order to soften those terrors...

This chapter is almost entirely filled with that beautiful song of Moses which was spoken of in the last chapter; and it contains so much...

Having finished his sermon to the people of Israel, which has filled the entirety of the Book of Deuteronomy; Moses now assured them of the...

The first 10 verses of this chapter are a plain intimation of the mercy that God has in store for Israel in the latter days. The passage refers...

“These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the...

This chapter is a very large exposition of two words in the foregoing chapter: the blessing and the curse. These are real things, and they have...

The Israelites were told that as soon as they had entered the land of Canaan, they were to set up a monument and write the words of the Lord’s...

The Lord ordained that besides the sheaf of firstfruits, which was offered for the whole land on the day after the Passover (Lev. 23:10); every...

If a man was accused of a crime, and the proof fell short, so that the charge could not be made out against him by the evidence; then the Lord...

The opening verses of this chapter contain that permission which the Pharisees erroneously referred to as a precept (Matt. 19:7), when they...

We are unsure as to exactly what was meant in the first verses of this chapter, by certain persons being forbidden to “enter into the...

If we properly regarded the Golden Rule of doing to others as we would wish them to do to us, many particular precepts – such as we find in...

In previous chapters, the Lord had given laws that demanded the vigorous and effectual punishment of a willful murderer. Such a person was to...

At this point in their history, Israel was considered more of a camp than a kingdom. They were entering into an enemy’s country to take...

Our blessed Redeemer told the Pharisees that upon the two great commandments which enjoin love to God and love to our neighbor, all the laws...

Magistrates and ministers are two Divinely appointed offices that are to be used for the support and advancement of the Kingdom of God among...

This chapter begins with a law for the preservation of the honor of God’s worship, by requiring that no animal with any blemish was to be...

Much of the communion between the Lord and the people of Israel was kept up by the observance of the three yearly feasts which are described in...

Every seventh year among the Israelites was to be a year of release, in which the ground was to rest from being tilled, and Hebrew servants...