Deuteronomy 4:5-14 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-40

This most lively and excellent discourse is so entire, and the particulars of it are so often repeated, that we must take it altogether in the exposition of it, and endeavour to digest it into proper heads, for we cannot divide it into paragraphs. I. In general, it is the use and application of the foregoing history; it comes in by way of inference from it: Now therefore harken, O Israel, Deut. 4:1. This use we should make of the review of God's providences concerning us, we should by them be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:5

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me ,.... He had faithfully delivered them, without adding them, or diminishing from them, and had diligently instructed the Israelites in them, had taken pains to lead them into a thorough knowledge and understanding them: that ye should do so in the land whither ye go possess it ; do in like manner as the commandments the Lord direct to; or that which is right F5 כן "rectum". ; proper and fitting... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:6

Keep therefore and do them ,..... Observe them, take notice of what is expressed by them, and perform them, both as to matter and manner, as they require: for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations ; that is, their wisdom and understanding would appear to other nations by their observance of the commands of God: which hear all these statutes ; which they had a report, got knowledge of by some of the philosophers who travelled into those parts, and by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:7

Not so much for their number, for they were the fewest of all people; nor for the largeness of their territories, for the land they were going to possess was but a small country; nor for their wealth and riches, and warlike exploits, though they were not contemptible in either; but for their happy constitution in church and state, being directed and governed in both by laws which came immediately from God himself; for their knowledge of divine things, and for spiritual blessings and privileges... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:8

And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous ,.... Founded in justice and equity, and so agreeable to right reason, and so well calculated and adapted to lead persons in the ways of righteousness and truth, and keep them from doing any injury to each other's persons and properties, and to maintain good order, peace, and concord among them: as all this law which I set before you this day ? which he then repeated, afresh declared, explained and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:9

Only take heed to thyself ,.... To walk according to this law, and not swerve from it: and keep thy soul diligently ; from the transgressions and breaches of it: lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen ; either the statutes and judgments set before them, and the circumstances of the delivery of them; or the punishment inflicted on the breakers of them; or the favours bestowed on those that observed them: and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life ... read more

John Gill

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

Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord in Horeb ,.... Above all things Moses would have them take care not to forget the day the law was given from Mount Sinai, which was so awful and solemn, when they saw the fire, the smoke, the lightning, and heard the thunder and the sound of the trumpet; all which were very shocking and terrifying: and though the men of this generation were but young then, being under twenty years of age, yet many of them were old enough to observe these... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:11

And ye came near and stood under the mountain ,.... At the foot of it, in the lower part of the mountain, as the Targum of Jonathan, and agrees with Exodus 19:17 . and the mountain burnt with fire unto the midst of heaven ; the flame and smoke went up into the middle of the air: with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness; which thick darkness was occasioned partly by the smoke, which went up like the smoke of a furnace, and partly by the thick clouds, which were on the mount, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:12

And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire ,.... For the Lord descended on Mount Sinai in a cloud, in fire, and was in the thick darkness, from whence he delivered out the ten commands: ye heard the voice of the words ; distinctly and plainly, not only the sound of them, but the words themselves, and so as to understand what was meant by them: but saw no similitude ; not any likeness of the person speaking, by which they could form any idea of him in their minds, which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:13

And he declared unto you his covenant ,.... So the law was called, because it contained, on the part of God, things which he would have done or avoided, to which were annexed promises of long life and happiness in the land he gave them; and they, on their part, agreed to hearken to it, and obey it, Exodus 24:3 , which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments ; which see at large in Exodus 20:1 , and in this book afterwards repeated, Deuteronomy 5:6 , and he wrote them... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-40

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:9

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:13

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