Chapters 10-11

 

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Deu 10:1  At that time Jehovah said to me, Cut out for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me, into the mountain, and you shall make for yourself an ark of wood; 

Deu 10:2  and I shall write on the tablets the words which were on the first tablets, which you have broken, and you shall place them in the ark. 

Deu 10:3  And I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut out two tablets of stone like the first, and went up into the mountain; and the two tablets were in my hand. 

Deu 10:4  And He wrote on the tablets according to the writing, the Ten Commandments which Jehovah had spoken to you in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. And Jehovah gave them to me, 

Deu 10:5  and I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark which I had made. And they are there, as Jehovah commanded me. 

Deu 10:6  And the sons of Israel pulled up stakes from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Mosera; Aaron died there and he was buried there; and his son Eleazar was acting as priest in his place. 

Deu 10:7  From there they pulled up stakes to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of torrents of water. 

Deu 10:8  At that time Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant before Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah and to minister to Him, and to bless in His name, until today. 

Deu 10:9  Therefore, Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Jehovah is his inheritance, according as Jehovah your God spoke to him. 

Deu 10:10  And I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights, as at the first. And Jehovah listened to me that time also; Jehovah did not will to destroy you. 

Deu 10:11  And Jehovah said to me Rise up! Go before the people, causing them to pull up stakes, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers, to give it to them. 

Deu 10:12  And now, Israel, what has Jehovah your God asked of you, except to fear Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul; 

Deu 10:13  to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and His statutes which I am commanding you today, for your good. 

Deu 10:14  Behold, the heavens and the Heaven of the heavens, the earth and all in it, belong to Jehovah your God. 

Deu 10:15  Only, Jehovah has delighted in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their seed after them, on you out of all the peoples, as it is today. 

Deu 10:16  And you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and you shall not harden your neck any more. 

Deu 10:17  For Jehovah your God, He is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords; the great, the mighty, the fearful God who does not lift up faces, nor take a bribe. 

Deu 10:18  He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, to give to him food and clothing. 

Deu 10:19  And you shall love the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. 

Deu 10:20  You shall fear Jehovah your God; you shall serve Him; and you shall cleave to Him; and you shall swear by His name. 

 

Deu 10:21  He shall be your praise, and He shall be your God, who has done for you these great and fearful things which your eyes have seen. 

Deu 10:22  Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons; and now Jehovah your God has made you as the stars of the heavens for multitude. 

 

Deu 11:1  And you shall love Jehovah your God, and keep His charge, and His statutes and His judgments, and His commandments all the days. 

Deu 11:2  And you know today, for I do not speak with your sons who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, and His stretched out arm, 

Deu 11:3  and His signs, and His works which He did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; 

Deu 11:4  and that which He has done to the army of Egypt, to its horses, and to its chariots, when He caused the waters of the Sea of Reeds to flow over them as they pursued them. And Jehovah destroyed them to this day; 

Deu 11:5  and that which He has done to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; 

Deu 11:6  and that which He has done to Dathan, and to Abiram, sons of Eliab, Reuben's son, when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their houses and their tents and all the living substance at their feet, in the midst of all Israel. 

Deu 11:7  But your eyes see all the great work of Jehovah which He has done. 

Deu 11:8  And you shall keep all the commandments which I am commanding you today, so that you shall be strong, and shall go in and possess the land to which you are crossing over, to possess it; 

Deu 11:9  and so that you may prolong your days in the land which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers, to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey. 

Deu 11:10  For the land to which you are going, to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from where you came, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs. 

Deu 11:11  But the land which you are entering to possess it is a land of hills and valleys, drinking water from the rain of the heavens; 

Deu 11:12  a land which Jehovah your God cares for; the eyes of Jehovah your God are always on it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. 

Deu 11:13  And it shall be, if listening you will listen to My commands which I command you today, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul, 

Deu 11:14  that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your wine, and your oil. 

Deu 11:15  And I will give grass in your fields for your livestock; and you shall eat and be satisfied. 

Deu 11:16  Take heed to yourselves, that your heart not be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods, and bow down to them; 

Deu 11:17  and the anger of Jehovah glow against you, and He shut up the heavens, and there be no rain, and the ground not give her increase, and you perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah is giving to you. 

Deu 11:18  And you shall lay these Words up in your hearts, and in your souls, and shall bind them for a sign on your hand. And they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. 

Deu 11:19  And you shall teach them to your sons by speaking of them as you sit in your house, and as you walk in the way, and as you lie down, and as you rise up. 

Deu 11:20  And you shall write them on the side posts of your house, and on your gates, 

Deu 11:21  that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied in the land which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers, to give to them, as the days of the heavens over the earth. 

Deu 11:22  For if keeping you will keep this command which I am commanding you, to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave to Him, 

Deu 11:23  then Jehovah shall dispossess all these nations from before you, and you shall possess nations greater and mightier than you. 

Deu 11:24  Every place where the sole of your foot treads shall be yours, from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the Euphrates River even to the furthest sea shall be your border. 

Deu 11:25  No man shall stand before you. Jehovah your God shall put your dread and your fear on the face of all the land on which you tread, as He has spoken to you. 

Deu 11:26  Behold! I set before you today a blessing and a curse: 

Deu 11:27  a blessing if you hear the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you today; 

Deu 11:28  and a curse if you will not hear the commandments of Jehovah your God, but will turn aside out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known. 

Deu 11:29  And it shall be when Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land to which you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal. 

Deu 11:30  Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites that live in the Arabah, opposite to Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? 

Deu 11:31  For you are to cross over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you; and you shall possess it and live in it. 

Deu 11:32  And take heed to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am giving before you today. 

 

Main Points: The tone is set and the articles for the covenant with God are yet iterated again. Listen and do God’s will or suffer the consequences.

 

1.    After Moses interceded what did God do (10:1-5)? Why did God do this (10:10)? How does this parallel the work of Christ? He re-wrote the ten commandments for Moses to take to the people. God was showing mercy on the people. God is just and requires an intercession for mercy. Moses’ intercession was based on a plea to God’s mercy by pragmatic means (avoiding blasphemy). Jesus’ intercession pleads to God based on His own sacrifice, thus appealing to God’s sense of mercy and at the same time Jesus satisfies Jehovah’s justice.

 

2.    Because of Moses’ intercession and God’s mercy what were the people to do (10:12-22). What do we learn from this? They were to wholly devote themselves to God. Starting with love, respect, obedience, they were to become humbled before God and extend this love to other people of humble circumstances. These concepts apply to the Christian even more since Jesus himself became the actual propitiation

 

required for sin. (God personalizes it through Jesus)

3.    What else is to be the response of the people (11:1)? Complete obedience. This required knowledge of the law…which required effort and a specific drive to know God….which ultimately grows a love for Him.

4.    What were the people to see about God and what was that to cause the people to do (11:2-17)? They were to see that God is the one taking care of them AND the land. They were to “love Jehovah your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul”… 
God is exhibiting His love and caring and only expected the same in return. Again, His warning is against idolatry which was easy to identify back then. Today, idolatry takes on many different forms. (i.e. covetousness)

5.    What are the people to do with God’s words (11:18-25)? This is a re-statement of the effort needed for mankind to keep God at the forefront of their lives. Man is to “keep” the word which means to protect it….build a hedge around it. It was to be at the forefront of everything they thought and did! The overriding question is why would God feel the need to repeat it? Perhaps what we found in chapters 8-9 reveals they why. People have a tendency to become arrogant against God after they have been blessed by Him.

6.    What choice was set before the people (11:26-32)? A blessing or a curse. This accentuates the reasoning behind the repetitive nature of these statements by Moses. This dispensation is legal speak in the sense that there will be no misunderstanding of God’s requirements. It alleviates any avenue of argument against the covenant and bad behavior.

 

 

Blessing: berâkâh ber-aw-kaw' From H1288; benediction; by implication prosperity: - blessing, liberal, pool, present. (1288 means “to kneel)

 

Curse: qelâlâh kel-aw-law' benediction

From H7043; vilification: - (ac-) curse (-d, -ing).