Deu 5:3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here alive this day. Ver. 3. With our fathers, ] i.e., With our fathers only. Or if it be understood of all the foregoing patriarchs, then it is to be expounded by Galatians 3:17 . read more
Deuteronomy 29:10-Ezra :, Genesis 17:7, Genesis 17:21, Psalms 105:8-2 Samuel :, Jeremiah 32:38-Matthew :, Matthew 13:17, Galatians 3:17-Ecclesiastes :, Hebrews 8:8, Hebrews 8:9 Reciprocal: Exodus 34:10 - I make Deuteronomy 11:7 - General Deuteronomy 26:17 - avouched Deuteronomy 29:12 - thou shouldest Deuteronomy 29:15 - also with him Joshua 24:25 - made 2 Kings 11:17 - made a covenant 2 Chronicles 23:16 - made a covenant Esther 9:27 - and upon their seed Jeremiah 11:4 - I commanded Jeremiah... read more
The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.Not with our fathers — Only: but with us, who are all alive - He saith not, that all who made the covenant at Sinai are now alive, but this covenant was made with all that are now alive; which is most true, for it was made with the elders in their persons, and with the rest in their parents, who covenanted for them. read more
3. Not… with our fathers Not with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was the covenant of which Moses speaks made, but with their descendants who came up out of the land of bondage. A covenant had been made with their fathers, but this covenant was made at Sinai, and, though nearly forty years had passed, there were those among the hearers who could recall the scenes connected with its announcement. read more
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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