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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 5:1-5

Moses Emphasises That The Covenant Was Not Only Given To Their Fathers But Was Given Also Directly To Them Out Of The Midst of The Fire (Deuteronomy 5:1-5 ). Moses now repeats briefly what he has already said in his previous speech. We note here that this directly connects back to Deuteronomy 4:10-14, and that Moses wants them to see the covenant words as directly addressed to them. Analysis. a All Israel are called together (at the Tabernacle). Then Moses says, “Listen and take heed, O... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 5:1-21

Deuteronomy 5:1-Ecclesiastes : . Yahweh’ s covenant ( Deuteronomy 4:13 *) with Israel at Horeb ( Deuteronomy 1:2 *) and its obligations ( Deuteronomy 5:6-Ecclesiastes :). With D’ s version of the Decalogue ( Deuteronomy 5:6-Ecclesiastes :) compare the earlier form in Exodus 20:1-Esther : * (E). Wellhausen is wrong in holding that there is a third (an older) version in Exodus 34:10-Ezekiel :. The following are the principal characteristics of Dt.’ s rendering: ( a) There are hortatory... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 5:4

Not in a visible shape, which was utterly denied, Deuteronomy 4:12,Deuteronomy 4:15; but personally and immediately, not by the mouth or ministry of Moses; plainly and certainly, as when two men talk face to face; freely and familiarly, so as not to overwhelm and confound you. Compare Exodus 33:11; Numbers 12:8. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:1-33

CRITICAL REMARKS.—The Deuteronomy, or second law, is now given and enforced. But Moses refers to the covenant relation between Jehovah and Israel, and recapitulates the Sinaitic code in its most important features.Deuteronomy 5:1. Moses called marks the publicity and importance of the address.Deuteronomy 5:2. Our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; but with the nation as an organic whole, those identified with the people who entered into the covenant at Sinai.Deuteronomy 5:4 Face to face, not... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:1-33

Now to chapter 5.AND Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the judgments, that you may learn them, and keep them, and do them ( Deuteronomy 5:1 ).So these three things; you're to learn them, you're to do them and to keep them.The LORD made a covenant with you ( Deuteronomy 5:2 )A conditional covenant. They're keeping His law; they're doing His commandments.The LORD talked with you face to face. (and I stood between the LORD and you at the time, to show... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 5:1-33

Deuteronomy 5:4 . The Lord talked with you face to face. That is, as the Chaldaic reads, talked to us, without a mediator; but literally, they saw no similitude. His voice was loud, for all the nation heard; at least, if they did not distinctly hear the words, they heard the thunder, and saw the appearance of devouring flames. How mild is the aspect of the gospel compared with the terrors of the law! Exodus 19:20. Deuteronomy 5:29 . Oh that there were such a heart in them. No father... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Deuteronomy 5:1-5

Deuteronomy 5:1-5The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.The promulgation of the lawGod was ever wonderful in His works, and fearful in His judgments--but He was never so terrible in the execution of His will as now in the promulgation of it. Here was nothing but a display of grandeur in the eyes, in the ears of the Israelites, as if God meant to show them by this how dreadful He could be. In the destruction of the first world there were clouds--in the destruction of Sodom there was... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:4

Deu 5:4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, Ver. 4. Face to face, ] i.e., Openly, and immediately, by himself, and not by a messenger or mediator. Prosper’s conceit was, that the Israelites were called Iudaei, because they received ius Dei. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 5:4

Deuteronomy 5:24-Ezekiel :, Deuteronomy 4:33, Deuteronomy 4:36, Deuteronomy 34:10, Exodus 19:9, Exodus 19:18, Exodus 19:19, Exodus 20:18-Song of Solomon :, Exodus 33:11, Numbers 12:8 Reciprocal: Genesis 17:22 - General Numbers 14:14 - art seen Deuteronomy 4:12 - the Lord Deuteronomy 5:22 - These words Deuteronomy 10:4 - which Nehemiah 9:13 - spakest Psalms 97:3 - General read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Deuteronomy 5:4

The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,Face to face — Personally and immediately, not by the mouth or ministry of Moses; plainly and certainly, as when two men talk face to face; freely and familiarly, so as not to overwhelm and confound you. read more

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