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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:33

Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire ,.... None ever heard the voice of God as they did, much less speaking such words as they heard, and still less out of the midst of fire, which was their case, Deuteronomy 4:12 . as thou hast heard, and live ? which was stranger still, when they might have expected they should, and doubtless feared they would be, as it was wonderful they were not, consumed by it. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:34

Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation ,.... As he now had done, namely, the nation of Israel out of the nation of the Egyptians; this he not only had assayed to do, but had actually done it; whereas no such instance like it could be produced, and especially as done in the manner this was: by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war ; the word "temptations" may be considered as a general word, as Aben Ezra thinks, and may signify the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:35

Unto thee it was showed ,.... What the Lord did in Egypt: that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, there is none else besides him ; that he is the one only living and true God, and there is no other: this phrase is often used by the Prophet Isaiah, to express the same great article of faith. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:36

Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee ,.... Thunder is the voice of God, and by which he instructs men in the greatness of his power, Job 26:14 , &c.; unless his voice in giving the law, which was for the instruction of Israel, is meant; for that was heard on earth, on Mount Sinai, to which the following refers: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire ; on Mount Sinai, which burned with it: and thou heardest his words out of the midst of... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:37

And because he loved thy fathers ,.... Not their immediate fathers, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness, and entered not into the good land because of their unbelief, but their more remote fathers or ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who had some singular testimonies of the love of God to them, Abraham is called their friend of God, and Isaac was the son of promise in whom the seed was called; and Jacob is particularly said to be loved by God, when Esau was hated: therefore he... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:38

To drive out nations from before thee, greater and mightier than thou art ,.... The seven nations of the land of Canaan, which were more in number and mightier in power and strength than they, and particularly the Amorites, who were already driven out and dispossessed of their country, even the kingdoms and nations of Sihon and Og: to bring thee in to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day ; referring, as Aben Ezra observes, to the inheritance of the land of the two... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:39

Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart ,.... Own and acknowledge it now with thy mouth, and lay it up and consider it in thine heart hereafter, as a truth of the greatest importance to be professed and held fast, and to be thought of and meditated upon continually, and never to be forgotten: that the Lord he is God in heaven above , and upon the earth beneath; that he has made both, and is the possessor and Lord of them, and does what he pleases with them; that the one... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:40

Thou shall keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments ,.... All his laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, partly being under obligation to him for all the great and good things done by him for them before enumerated, and partly and chiefly because he is the Lord God in heaven and in earth, and has a right to command and ought to be obeyed: which I command thee this day ; in the name of the Lord, and which he repeated, opened, and explained, and charged them afresh to observe;... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:41

Then Moses severed three cities ,.... To be cities of refuge, according to the command of God, Numbers 35:14 this he did when he had conquered the two kingdoms of the Amorites, that God had given them for an inheritance to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, Deuteronomy 4:38 though Jarchi says, and so other Jewish writers, that persons were not received into them until the three cities appointed in the land of Canaan were separated for the like use; See Gill on ... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:42

That the slayer might flee thither ,.... For refuge; the slayer of a man, but not any slayer, but which should kill his neighbour unawares ; by accident to him, without any design and intention to kill him; ignorantly, as the Septuagint version; and so Onkelos: and hated him not in times past ; it having never appeared that there had been a quarrel between them, and that the slayer had shown any enmity to the man slain any time before the fact, or bore a grudge against him, or spite... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:38

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:39

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:40

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:41

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:42

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