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Deuteronomy 31
Moses encourages the people and Joshua, ver. 1-8. 23.
Delivers to the priests the law, to be read every seventh year, ver.
9-13. God informs Moses of his approaching death, and the future
apostasy of Israel, ver. 14-18. Orders him to write a song, which
should be a testimony against them, ver. 19-22. Moses gives the
law to the Levites to lay up beside the ark, and bids them
assemble the people to hear his song, ver. 24-30.
Verse 1. Went and spake - Continued to speak, an usual Hebrew phrase.
Verse 2. Go out and come in - Perform the office of a leader or
governor, because the time of my death approaches.
Verse 9. This law - Largely so called, the whole law or doctrine
delivered unto Moses contained in these five books. To the priests
- That they might keep it carefully and religiously, and bring it
forth upon occasion, and read it, and instruct the people out of it.
The elders - Who were assistants to the priests, to take care that
the law should be kept, and read, and observed.
Verse 10. The year of release - When they were freed from debts and
troubles, and cares of worldly matters, and thereby fitter to attend
on God and his service.
Verse 11. Thou shalt read - Thou shalt cause it to be read by the priest or
Levites; for he could not read it himself in the hearing of all
Israel, but this was to be done by several persons, and so the
people met in several congregations.
Verse 12. Together - Not in one place. But into divers assemblies or
synagogues. Women who hereby are required to go to Jerusalem
at this solemnity, as they were permitted to do in other
solemnities. Children - Such of them as could understand, as
appears from Neh. viii, 2, 3, the pious Jews doubtless read it daily
in their houses, and Moses of old time was read in the synagogues
every sabbath day. But once in seven years, the law was thus to be
read in public, to magnify it and make it honourable.
Verse 14. Give him a charge - Immediately from myself for his greater
encouragement, and to gain him more authority with the people.
Verse 16. The strangers of the land - That is, of the Canaanites, who will
be turned out of their possessions, and become as strangers in
their own land. This aggravates their folly to worship such gods as
could neither preserve their friends, nor annoy their enemies.
Verse 17. Hide my face - Withdraw my favour and help. Whatever
outward troubles we are in if we have but the light of God's
countenance, we are safe. But if God hide his face from us then
we are undone.
Verse 19. Write this song - Which is contained chap. xxxii, 1-43, and is
put into a song that it may be better learned, and more fixed in
their minds and memories. Put it in their mouths - Cause them to
learn it, and sing it one to another, to oblige them to more
circumspection. A witness - Of my kindness in giving them so
many blessings, of my patience in bearing so long with them, of
my clemency in giving them such fair and plain warnings, and my
justice in punishing such an incorrigible people.
Verse 21. Their imaginations - Inclinations to Idolatry, which they do
not check, as they ought; and some of them do not only cherish it
in their hearts, but as far as they can and dare, secretly practice it,
as may be gathered from Amos v, 25 Acts vii, 43.
Verse 25. The Levites - The priests, ver. 9, who also were Levites.
Verse 26. Take this book - Probably the very same book, which (after
having been some way misplaced) was found in the house of the
Lord, in the days of Josiah, and publickly read by the king
himself, for a witness against a people, who were then almost ripe
for ruin. In the side - In the outside, in a little chest fixed to it, for
nothing but the tables of stone were contained in the ark, 1 Kings
viii, 9, here it was kept for greater security and reverence. A
witness against thee - Against thy people, to whom he turns his
speech that they might be the more affected with it.
Chapter 31:
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