Bible Commentary

A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it; a land whose stones [are] iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. 9. without scarceness ] The noun is found only here, and its adj. thrice only in the late Ecc 4:13; Ecc 9:15 f.; … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 8:9”

A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; 8. wheat and barley ] Not the most characteristic products of Palestine, but put first as the staple food of man and the principal distinction of the cultivated soil from the desert, the land not … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 8:8”

For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 7. bringeth thee ] is about to bring thee: see above on Deu 6:10. a good land ] Deu 1:35: Sam. and LXX add here and a … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 8:7”

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 6. This v. has been marked by Steuernagel as a later addition on the ground that it gives a strange turn to the main thought of the context. But the enforcement of the keeping of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 8:6”

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. 5. And thou shalt consider in thine heart ] Lit. know with thy heart; cp. ‘conscire sibi,’ and see above on Deu 7:9. as a man chasteneth his son ] disciplineth, cp. Deu 4:36, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 8:5”

Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 4. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee ] Similarly Deu 29:5, Pl.; Neh 9:21. On raiment see Deu 24:13. neither did thy fool swell ] or rise in blisters, only here and Neh 9:21. Rhetorically applied to the nation … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 8:4”

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. 3. And … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 8:3”

And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not. 2. thou shall remember all the way ] Another of the many calls … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 8:2”

All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers. 1. The change from Sg. to Pl. is confirmed by Sam. LXX has Pl. throughout the v. Is the Heb. and … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 8:1”

Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: [but] thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it [is] a cursed thing. 26. a devoted thing ] erem, see on Deu 2:34; cp. Deu 13:17 (18). Persons using or touching anything that … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 7:26”