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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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 27:3

All the words of this law - i. e. all the laws revealed from God to the people by Moses, regarded by the Jews as 613 (compare Numbers 15:38 note). The exhibition of laws in this manner on stones, pillars, or tables, was familiar to the ancients. The laws were probably graven in the stone (“very plainly,” Deuteronomy 27:8 is by some rendered “scoop it out well”), as are for the most part the Egyptian hieroglyphics, the “plaister” being afterward added to protect the inscription from the weather. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 27:4

In mount Ebal - Compare the marginal references. The Samaritan Pentateuch and Version read here Gerizim instead of Ebal; but the original text was probably, as nearly all modern authorities hold, altered in order to lend a show of scriptural sanction to the Samaritan temple on Mount Gerizim.The erection of the altar, the offering thereon burnt-offerings and peace-offerings Deuteronomy 27:6-7, the publication of the Law in writing, form altogether a solemn renewal of the covenant on the entrance... 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

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 27:6

Deuteronomy 27:6. Whole stones Rough, not hewn, nor polished, whereby all manner of imagery was avoided. Shalt offer burnt-offerings thereon In order to ratify their covenant with God, as they did at Horeb. By the law written on the stones God spake to them; by the altar and sacrifices upon it they spake to God, and thus was communion kept up between them and God. 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 27:2

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 27:3

write. See note on Exodus 17:14 . Compare Joshua 8:30-32 . this law: i.e. which follows, viz. the blessings and curses. as = according as. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 27:4

in mount Ebal. The stones, therefore, carried thither from Jordan. Ebal = heaps. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 27:5

iron. Probably a technical name for a chisel, as we now associate it with a laundry or a prison. read more

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