28<\/strong>. Assemble<\/em> ] Imperative Pl. See on Deu 31:12<\/em><\/span>, and Deu 5:22<\/span>.<\/p>\n elders of your tribes<\/em>, etc.] LXX heads of your tribes<\/em>, adding and your judges<\/strong>, and some LXX codd. also add elders<\/em>. Cp. Deu 5:23<\/span>, Deu 29:10<\/span> (9).<\/p>\n these words<\/em> ] Though this phrase usually refers to what precedes, it is more probable that here what follows, i.e. the Song, is meant, as indubitably is the case in Exo 20:1<\/span>.<\/p>\n Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers<\/strong>,…. The heads of the tribes, the princes, and all other inferior magistrates:<\/p>\n that I may speak these words in their ears<\/strong>; not the words of the law, but of the song which he was ordered to write, and is recorded in the following chapter:<\/p>\n and call heaven and earth to record against them<\/strong>; to bear witness of what he delivered to them, and to bear witness against them should they transgress the laws he gave them; and to bear witness that they had been faithfully cautioned against transgressing, and had been severely threatened, and the punishment plainly pointed out that should be inflicted on them in case of disobedience, so that they were left entirely without excuse.<\/p>\n Directly after handing over the book of the law, Moses directed the elders of all the tribes, together with the official persons, to gather round him, that he might rehearse to them the ode which he had written fore the people. The summons, “gather unto me,” was addressed to the persons to whom he had given the book of the law. The elders and officers, as the civil authorities of the congregation, were collected together by him to hear the ode, because they were to put it in the mouth of the people, i.e., to take care that all the nation should learn it. The words, “ I will call heaven and earth as witnesses against you<\/em>,” refer to the substance of the ode about to be rehearsed, which begins with an appeal to the heaven and the earth (Deu 32:1<\/span>). The reason assigned for this in Deu 31:29<\/span> is a brief summary of what the Lord had said to Moses in Deu 31:16-21<\/span>, and Moses thought it necessary to communicate to the representatives of the nation. “ The work of your hands<\/em> ” refers to the idols (vid., Deu 4:28<\/span>).<\/p>\n Verses 28-30:<\/strong><\/p>\n Moses called heaven and earth as witness against Israel, that they would one day after his death rebel against God and follow the gods of the nations about them. This did not come to pass in .the first generation after Moses’ death, during the lifetime of Joshua, Jos 24:31<\/span>. But following Joshua’s death, Israel began the process of which Moses warned: drifting away from God to go after gods of the nations among whom they lived. The Book of Judges records this apostasy, and its effects, see Jdg 1:19<\/span>; Jdg 1:21<\/span>; Jdg 1:27<\/span>; Jdg 1:29-36<\/span>; Jdg 17:6<\/span>; Jdg 18:1<\/span>, et.al.<\/p>\n Moses assembled the religious, military, and political leaders of Israel and spoke the words of the song he had composed. It was their responsibility to teach it to those under their authority, cf. 2Ti 2:2<\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n 28. Gather to me all the elders of your tribes. Special reference is here made to the Song, which we gather from the last verse to have been alone recited. Moses, indeed, appears to contradict himself when he commands the elders and officers only to be called to listen, whereas he soon afterwards records that he read it to the whole people. But these two things are easily reconciled, when we remember the order which he was accustomed to observe in gathering the multitude together; for it is manifest from many passages that they were not called together promiscuously, but that the heads of tribes, and the princes of the people, each of them led their band; so that the assembling of the elders here mentioned, is so far from excluding the rest of the multitude, that it rather indicates that the whole people were gathered together by their tribes and classes. And this we may infer from the context, for assuredly he did not “call heaven and earth to record against” the officers only; and yet so he seems to signify. Under the leaders, therefore, the whole multitude is included. <\/p>\n 28<\/strong>. <\/strong> Gather unto me all the elders <\/strong> Moses now, after handing over the book of the law, directs that the elders of the tribes and all in official position be gathered around him. A general assembly representing the entire nation now come together to listen to the unequalled ode which bears the name of the Song of Moses.<\/p>\n heaven and earth. One of the thirteen occurrences. See note on Deu 4:26. <\/p>\n Gather unto me: Deu 31:12, Deu 29:10, Gen 49:1, Gen 49:2, Exo 18:25, Num 11:16, Num 11:17 <\/p>\n call heaven: Deu 4:26, Deu 30:19, Deu 32:1, Isa 1:2, Luk 19:40 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Deu 31:9 – Moses Jos 1:9 – Have Jos 23:2 – all Israel Rth 4:2 – the elders 2Ki 23:1 – the king Psa 50:4 – call Dan 9:27 – that determined<\/p>\n Deu 31:28-30. Gather unto me all the elders It is probable that Moses, having spoken to the people what he was commanded, dismissed them again till he should write the following song; which having done, he summoned the elders (and people, Deu 31:30) to deliver to them from his own mouth what he had written. Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation Pronounced himself, with an audible voice, to the representatives of the congregation, and afterward ordered to be repeated to the people of every tribe, the following song or hymn.<\/p>\n 31:28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your {n} officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.<\/p>\n (n) As governors, judges and magistrates.<\/p>\n Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. 28. Assemble ] Imperative Pl. 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