Deuteronomy 10:4 NIV

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 10:4

commandments = words. Compare Exodus 34:4 , Exodus 34:28 . spake. See note on Deuteronomy 2:1 . unto. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, and The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel read "with". assembly. Hebrew. kahal, convocation of called-out people. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 10:4

4, 5. he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing—that is, not Moses, who under the divine direction acted as amanuensis, but God Himself who made this inscription a second time with His own hand, to testify the importance He attached to the ten commandments. Different from other stone monuments of antiquity, which were made to stand upright and in the open air, those on which the divine law was engraven were portable, and designed to be kept as a treasure. JOSEPHUS says that each of... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 10:1-11

God renewed the broken covenant with Israel because of Moses’ intercession, not because Israel deserved it. Moses made the ark (Deuteronomy 10:3) in the sense that he directed Bezalel to make it (cf. Exodus 25:10; Exodus 37:1). "Ark" was a common English word for box, chest, or basket in seventeenth-century England, and most modern English translations still use this old word. Other evidences of God’s grace were His appointment of another high priest when Aaron died (Deuteronomy 10:6) and His... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 10:1-22

Practical Exhortations (continued)1-5. The renewal of the broken covenant: see Exodus 34.6-9. These vv are evidently a parenthesis.The death of Aaron took place thirty-eight years after the departure from Sinai, but previous to the delivery of this discourse: see on Numbers 20:22-29; The notice of Aaron’s death seems to be inserted here to show that the sin of Aaron and the people did not bring the priesthood to a close. The covenant was renewed, and Aaron was spared for nearly forty years to... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 10:4

(4) According to the first writing, the ten commandments.—The words written on the second tables were the same which had been written on the first.In the day of the assembly.—Or, in New Testament language, “the day of the Church.” The Pentecost of the Old Testament was the day when “the letter” was given; the Pentecost of the New Testament was the day of the “Spirit that giveth life.” Each of these aspects of God’s covenant produced a Church after its kind. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Deuteronomy 10:1-22

The Test of National Prosperity Deuteronomy 10:12 The Old Testament is concerned with tribes and nations rather than with individuals. The Law of Moses deals with Israel collectively as a whole. The prophets utter their burdens of doom not against evil persons, but against wicked kingdoms like Babylon, and Moab, and Egypt, and their great messages of hope and warning and consolation are addressed to Judah or Jerusalem rather than any single Jew. In this sense it is true that no Scripture is... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:1-22

ISRAEL’S ELECTION, AND MOTIVES FOR FAITHFULNESSDeuteronomy 9:1-29; Deuteronomy 10:1-22; Deuteronomy 11:1-32THE remaining chapters of this special introduction to the statement of the actual laws beginning with chapter 12 contain also an earnest insistence upon other motives why Israel should remain true to the covenant of Yahweh. They are urged to this, not only because life both spiritual and physical depended upon it, as was shown in the trials of the wilderness, but they are also to lay it... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Deuteronomy 10:1-11

5. Warning Against Self-Righteousness and Their Previous Failures CHAPTERS 9:1-10:11 1. The warning (Deuteronomy 9:1-6 ) 2. The failures of the past (Deuteronomy 9:7-24 ) 3. The intercession of Moses (Deuteronomy 9:25-29 ) 4. The results of the intercession (Deuteronomy 10:1-11 ) This chapter and the first eleven verses of the tenth are aimed against the spirit of self righteousness. First there is the warning. This is followed by their shameful history of the past, which showed that... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Deuteronomy 10:4

10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the {b} assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.(b) When you were assembled to receive the Law. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 10:1-22

THE SECOND GIVING OF THE LAW (vs.1-11) While Moses had spoken of events later than the giving of the law insist on the moral lessons of Israel's disobedience through the wilderness (ch.9:22-23), he returned in verse 25 to his intercession for Israel at the time of the giving of the law. Now he recalls God's instructions to hew two more tablets of stone (v.1), and bring them to the mountain of God. But He adds, "and make yourself an ark of wood." God would write the commandments again on... read more