申命记 27:1-2 RCUVSS

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:1-10

Law-abiding people. We have here a direction about writing, upon great stones in Mount Ebal, the words of the Divine Law. Whether this meant only the blessings and curses, as Josephus thinks, or an abstract of Deuteronomy, or only the ten commandments, we cannot tell. But the idea implied is similar to the writing of the Decalogue in stone; it was to render fixed the Law on which the national policy was to rest. In other words, it was a symbolic way of declaring that Israel will be a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:2

On the day when ye shall pass over Jordan ; i . e . at the time ; "day" is here used in a wide sense (cf. Genesis 2:4 ; Numbers 3:1 ; 2 Samuel 22:1 ; Ecclesiastes 12:3 ; Isaiah 11:10 , etc.). Thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster, The stones, the number of which is not specified, were to be large, because much was to be inscribed upon them, and they were to be covered with a coating of lime or gypsum ( שִׂיַד ), in order to secure a smooth... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 27:1

Moses in a third discourse Deut. 27–30, proceeds more specifically to dwell upon the sanctions of the Law. In these chapters he sets before Israel in striking and elaborate detail the blessings which would ensue upon faithfulness to the covenant, and the curses which disobedience would involve. Deuteronomy 27:0 introduces this portion of the book by enjoining the erection of a stone monument on which the Law should be inscribed as soon as the people took possession of the promised inheritance... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 27:2

The stones here named are not those of which the altar Deuteronomy 27:5 was to be built, but are to serve as a separate monument witnessing to the fact that the people took possession of the land by virtue of the Law inscribed on them and with an acknowledgment of its obligations. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 27:1

Deuteronomy 27:1. Moses with the elders Having in discourses at several times repeated the principal parts of the laws, and made several necessary additions to them, Moses called the council together, and summoned the body of the people to attend them at the tabernacle; where, after an earnest exhortation to observe what he had already said, and was now about to prescribe to them, he directs them, the first opportunity they had after their arrival in the land of promise, to renew their... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 27:2-3

Deuteronomy 27:2-3. On the day Here it is evident the word day does not signify precisely the very same day they passed over, but some indefinite time after, namely, as soon as they were come to mount Ebal, (Deuteronomy 27:4,) after the taking of Jericho and Ai. See Joshua 8:30. All the words of this law Some have thought that he means the whole book of Deuteronomy. But they must have been immense stones to have contained this. It is more probable that only the ten commandments are... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:1-26

27:1-30:20 CONDITIONS OF THE COVENANTThe listing of blessings and curses at the end of the covenant document is again in keeping with the form of ancient Near Eastern treaties. God in his sovereign grace had chosen Israel as his people and preserved them. In gratitude the people were to be obedient to God’s commands, and in doing so they would enjoy fellowship with him and blessing in their national life. Disobedience, on the other hand, would bring his judgment upon them, so that they might... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 27:1

And Moses. This is the beginning of the fifth address. See note on Deuteronomy 1:1 . this day. See note on Deuteronomy 4:26 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 27:2

on the day = in the day, or, when. See App-18 . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4 . stones: i.e. rough and unhewn. Compare Exodus 20:25 . plaister = gypsum. A hard white cement. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Deuteronomy 27:1

THE THIRD ADDRESS OF MOSES (DEUT. 27-30)That this chapter is properly placed, that it is indeed from Moses, as is specifically claimed three different times in the chapter, and that it is a logical and necessary continuation of what has preceded - all of this is now considered a certainty by orthodox Christian scholars. It has been only a few short years since the critics were declaiming that: "This chapter, in the third person, is an interruption, a later addition, etc."[1] "It is clearly not... read more