Deuteronomy 27:12-13 NIV

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Deuteronomy 27:1-26

23. The Memorial of the Law at Mount Ebal; Gerizim and Ebal CHAPTER 27 1. The memorial to be set up in the land (Deuteronomy 27:1-8 ) 2. Gerizim and Ebal (Deuteronomy 27:9-26 ) Little comment is needed on this chapter. The memorial stones were to be set up on Mount Ebal. Upon that mountain the curses of the law were to be uttered. The blessings were to be pronounced upon Mount Gerizim. However, on Gerizim were no stones with the law written upon it. How strikingly this illustrates the... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Deuteronomy 27:12

27:12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and {f} Joseph, and Benjamin:(f) Meaning, Ephraim and Manasseh. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Deuteronomy 27:13

27:13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to {g} curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.(g) Signifying, that if they would not obey God out of love, they would be made to obey out of fear. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 27:1-26

A MEMORIAL ON MOUNT EBAL (vs.1-10) With the directive again to keep all the commandments of the Lord, Moses gave Israel instructions, when they get into the land, to set up large stones coated with lime, on which the words of the law were to be inscribed (vs.1-3). This was to be done on Mount Ebal and also an altar of stones built there (vs.4-6), on which Israel was to offer peace offerings and rejoice before the Lord. The significance of these things is very striking, for we are told in... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:1-26

PROPHECY OF ISRAEL ’S FUTURE As we approach the conclusion of this book we come to its most important part from a prophetic point of view indeed the present lesson contains (chap. 28) a foreview of Israel’s history to the end of the present age, in some respects unparalleled in the Bible, although touched upon in Leviticus (Deut. 26:26), as we saw. STONES FOR THE LAW AND STONE FOR AN ALTAR (Deuteronomy 27:1-8 ) What should they do when they crossed the Jordan (Deuteronomy 27:2 )? How... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:11-13

The Mount Ebal, and the Mount Gerizzim, stood near each other, a valley being between them. It is worthy remark, that in the Gospel state, when JESUS went up into the mountain, it was only to bless his people. The tribes were divided in six to each, for blessing the people, and for pronouncing the curses. Perhaps they both had an allusion to the Gospel state, for the law is our schoolmaster unto CHRIST: and ministers are by the terrors of the law to persuade men. 2 Corinthians 5:11 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:12

Garizim. The children of Jacob, by Lia and Rachel, have the more honourable function of blessing, while those of the handmaids, with Ruben and Zabulon, the first and the sons of Lia, at their head, on Hebal, have to answer to the various curses which were to be proclaimed by the priests and Levites, ver. 14. These were stationed with the ark, between the two mountains; and when they pronounced, for example, "Blessed is he that maketh not a graven or molten thing," &c., those on Garizim... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 27:11-26

11-26 The six tribes appointed for blessing, were all children of the free women, for to such the promise belongs, Galatians 4:31. Levi is here among the rest. Ministers should apply to themselves the blessing and curse they preach to others, and by faith set their own Amen to it. And they must not only allure people to their duty with the promises of a blessing, but awe them with the threatenings of a curse, by declaring that a curse would be upon those who do such things. To each of the... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Deuteronomy 27:9-26

The Curse Pronounced from Mount Ebal v. 9. And Moses and the priests, the Levites, the children of Levi, spake unto all Israel, saying, take heed and hearken, listen very quietly, in order not to lose one word, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the Lord, thy God, by the solemn establishing of the Law in Canaan the covenant with Jehovah was renewed. v. 10. Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord, thy God, and do His commandments and His statutes which I command thee... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Deuteronomy 27:1-26

The Instructions for the Stone Monument as a Pause to the Second DiscourseDeuteronomy 27:1-81And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments [the whole commandment] which I command you this day. 2And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: 3And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art... read more