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Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 27:2

On that day, i.e. about that time, for it was not done till some days after their passing over. Day is oft put for time, as hath been noted before. Plaister them with plaister, for conveniency of writing upon them. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 27:3

All the words of this law; either, 1. All the words of this Book of Deuteronomy. But that seems too large for this place. Or, 2. The blessings and curses here following. But they are mentioned as a different thing. Or, 3. The law properly so called, i.e. the sum and substance of the precepts or laws of Moses, especially such as were moral and general, as may be guessed from the following part of the chapter, where the curses pronounced against all that confirm not all the words of this law to... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:1-26

CRITICAL NOTES.—Connect this chapter with Deuteronomy 27:16 of preceding one, where Moses concludes discourse on plains of Moab. Here he dwells on sanctions of the law and sets forth in striking detail the blessings of obedience and curses of disobedience.Deuteronomy 27:1-4. On the day of entrance into the land, stones must be erected and the law written on them. Elders, rulers, and representatives of tribes, prominent, because they would require what was due after death of Moses. Great stones... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:1-26

Chapter 27In chapter twenty-seven, when you come into the land you are to take these stones and you are to build a tower and you are to plaster it. And then you are to write on the plaster of the tower the words of the law when you pass over into the land that God has given to you.Therefore it shall be when you have gone over Jordan, [verse four] that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster. And there shalt thou build... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 27:1-26

Deuteronomy 27:2 . Great stones, thought to be twelve in each pillar; they wrote the curses on the one pillar, and the blessings on the other. Deuteronomy 27:3 . Thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law. Not the six hundred precepts, which may be gathered from the short turns and phrases of Moses, but the blessings and the curses. The first altar was built of twelve stones, the day that the Israelites crossed the Jordan; but the two great pillars were not built till fifteen... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Deuteronomy 27:2-3

Deuteronomy 27:2-3That thou shalt set up great stones.Memorial pillarsOn the boundary line between European and Siberian Russia there is a square pillar of brick bearing on one side the coat-of-arms belonging to the province of Perm in Europe, and on the other side the coat-of-arms belonging to the province of Tobolsk in Asia. That pillar has more sorrowful associations than any other pillar in the world. For many years the exiles to Siberia had to pass it, and there bade a long farewell to... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:2

Deu 27:2 And 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 plaister them with plaister: Ver. 2. And plaster them with plaster. ] That they might have it in white and black. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 27:2

on the day: Deuteronomy 6:1, Deuteronomy 9:1, Deuteronomy 11:31, Joshua 1:11, Joshua 4:1, 5-24 unto the: Deuteronomy 27:3, Deuteronomy 26:1 great stones: Ezekiel 11:19, Ezekiel 36:26 and plaster: Houbigant and others are of opinion that the original words, wesadta othom beseed, should be rendered "thou shalt cement them with cement," because this was intended to be a durable monument. Some suppose that the writing was to be in relievo, and that the spaces were to be filled up by the mortar... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 27:3

thou shalt: Joshua 8:32, Jeremiah 31:31-Micah :, 2 Corinthians 3:2, 2 Corinthians 3:3, Hebrews 8:6-2 Samuel :, Hebrews 10:16 this law: This law probably means only the blessings and curses mentioned in this and the following chapter; which indeed contain an epitome of the whole law. a land: Deuteronomy 6:8, Deuteronomy 26:9, Leviticus 20:24, Numbers 13:27, Numbers 14:8, Joshua 5:6, Jeremiah 11:5, Jeremiah 32:22 Reciprocal: Exodus 3:8 - unto a good Leviticus 14:34 - When Deuteronomy 4:44 - ... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Deuteronomy 27:2

And 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 plaister them with plaister:On that day — About that time, for it was not done 'till some days after their passing over. read more

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