Deuteronomy 10:1-22 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:1-11

There were four things in and by which God showed himself reconciled to Israel and made them truly great and happy, and in which God's goodness took occasion from their badness to make him the more illustrious:? I. He gave them his law, gave it to them in writing, as a standing pledge of his favour. Though the tables that were first written were broken, because Israel had broken the commandments, and God might justly break the covenant, yet when his anger was turned away the tables were... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:12-22

Here is a most pathetic exhortation to obedience, inferred from the premises, and urged with very powerful arguments and a great deal of persuasive rhetoric. Moses brings it in like an orator, with an appeal to his auditors And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee? Deut. 10:12. Ask what he requires; as David (Ps. 116:12), What shall I render? When we have received mercy from God it becomes us to enquire what returns we shall make to him. Consider what he requires, and you... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:1

At that time the Lord said unto me ,.... On the fortieth day, mentioned in the preceding chapter, as Aben Ezra, or at the end of forty days, as Jarchi; not of the first forty, for then were given him the first two tables of stone, with the law written on them, which he broke when he came down; but at the end of the second forty days, as some think, when he had fallen before the Lord, and entreated him for the people, and, as a token of his reconciliation to them, gave the following order: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:2

And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest ,.... F1 See a Sermon of mine on this text, called, "The Law in the Hand of Christ." Though they were hewn by Moses, the writing on them was the Lord's; and the very same laws, in the same words, without any alteration or variation, were written by him on these as on the former; partly to show the authenticity of them, that they were of God and not Moses, of a divine original and not human; and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:3

And I made an ark of shittim wood ,.... That is, ordered it to be made, and it was made by Bezaleel, and that of shittim wood: so the ark that was put into the holy of holies was made of this wood; see See Gill on Exodus 25:10 ; see Gill on Exodus 37:1 , and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first ; two marble ones, as the Targum of Jonathan; that is, he ordered them to be hewed, and took care that they should be exactly made as the former were, of which he had perfect... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:4

And he wrote on the tables according to the first writing ,.... The same laws, in the same letters: the ten commandments which the Lord spake unto you in the mount ; in Mount Sinai, on which he descended, and from whence he delivered the decalogue by word of mouth in an audible manner, that all the people could hear it: out of the midst of the fire ; in which he descended, and where he continued, and from whence he spake, so that it was indeed a fiery law: in the day of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:5

And I turned myself ,.... From the Lord, out of whose hands he had received the tables: and came down from the mount ; with the two tables in his hand as before, one in one hand, and the other in the other hand: and put the tables in the ark which I had made ; or ordered to be made: and there they be, as the Lord commanded me ; there they were when Moses rehearsed what is contained in this book, on the plains of Moab, about thirty eight years after the putting them, into it; and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:6

And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan ,.... Not when or soon after they removed from Sinai; for if this place is the same with Benejaakan, as is generally supposed, they had a great many journeys, mansions, and stations before they came to it; see Numbers 33:31 and besides, since Aaron, according to this account, died at their next station from hence, that was thirty eight years after their departure from Mount Sinai; and it is hard to say... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:7

From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah ,.... Which Jarchi takes to be the same with Horhagidgad, and so do most; see Numbers 33:32 , but Aben Ezra says it is not, but is a general name, including Zalmonah, Punon, and Oboth, places the Israelites came to after they removed from Mount Hor, where Aaron died; see Numbers 33:41 . and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters ; which the above writer takes to be the same with Beer, the well, Numbers 21:16 and by this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:8

At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi ,.... Not at the time that Moses came down from the mount with the tables of the law, but some considerable time after, even after the tabernacle was erected; nor at the time that Aaron died, and Eleazar succeeded him, but many years before that; unless there was a fresh separation of them, or a renewal of it when Eleazar became high priest in his father's stead; and so that being mentioned is the reason of its being repeated here: to bear... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:1-11

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:12-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:8

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