Deuteronomy 4:32-49 NIV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:40

Thou shall keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments ,.... All his laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, partly being under obligation to him for all the great and good things done by him for them before enumerated, and partly and chiefly because he is the Lord God in heaven and in earth, and has a right to command and ought to be obeyed: which I command thee this day ; in the name of the Lord, and which he repeated, opened, and explained, and charged them afresh to observe;... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:41

Then Moses severed three cities ,.... To be cities of refuge, according to the command of God, Numbers 35:14 this he did when he had conquered the two kingdoms of the Amorites, that God had given them for an inheritance to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, Deuteronomy 4:38 though Jarchi says, and so other Jewish writers, that persons were not received into them until the three cities appointed in the land of Canaan were separated for the like use; See Gill on ... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:42

That the slayer might flee thither ,.... For refuge; the slayer of a man, but not any slayer, but which should kill his neighbour unawares ; by accident to him, without any design and intention to kill him; ignorantly, as the Septuagint version; and so Onkelos: and hated him not in times past ; it having never appeared that there had been a quarrel between them, and that the slayer had shown any enmity to the man slain any time before the fact, or bore a grudge against him, or spite... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:43

Namely , Bezer in the wilderness ,.... In Joshua 20:8 , it is added "upon the plain"; this perhaps was the wilderness of Moab, in the plains of it, the same with Bozrah, see Jeremiah 48:24 and in the Apocrypha:"Hereupon Judas and his host turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness unto Bosora; and when he had won the city, he slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burned the city with fire,' (1 Maccabees 5:28)it was in the plain country of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:44

And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel. Not the law concerning the cities of refuge, but the law of the ten commands repeated in the following chapter; so Jarchi remarks,"this which he should set in order after this section;'as he does in the next chapter, where he repeats in order the ten precepts, and makes observations on the manner of the delivery of them, and urges obedience to them. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:45

These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments ,.... The laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, delivered in the following chapters; which are renewed, repeated, and explained: which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt; in the third month after they came from thence these laws were delivered to him at Mount Sinai, and he declared them to them; and now afresh, near forty years after, repeated them to them in the plains of Moab. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:46

On this side Jordan, in the valley, over against Bethpeor ,.... Where the Israelites abode some time; see Deuteronomy 3:29 , in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon ; which was now conquered, and in the hands of the Israelites: whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they came out of Egypt ; not as soon as, or quickly after they came from thence; for it was but a few months ago since this conquest was made, whereas it was near forty years since... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:47

And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan ,.... Seized upon them, and took them as their own, and divided them for an inheritance among two of their tribes and half another: two kings of the Amorites ; which is more than once observed, that it might be taken notice of that these were of the nations of the Canaanites Israel were to root out, and possess their land: which were on this side Jordan, toward the sun rising ; which lands and kingdoms lay to the east of... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:48

From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon ,.... A city of Moab, which was situated on the bank of the river Arnon, that was on the border of Moab, Deuteronomy 2:36 , even unto Mount Sion, which is Hermon ; the meaning is, that the lands of these two kings conquered by Israel reached from the city Aroer on the river Arnon to Mount Hermon, the one being the southern, the other the northern boundary of them. Here Hermon has another name Sion, and is to be carefully... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:49

And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward ,.... The plains of Moab, on that side of Jordan to the east: even unto the sea of the plain ; the sea of Sodom, the salt sea: under the springs of Pisgah ; that rose from Mount Pisgah, the same with Ashdothpisgah, Deuteronomy 3:17 . read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:40

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:41

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:42

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:43

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:44

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:45

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:46

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:47

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:48

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:49

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