Gen 28:22, Deu 27, Jos 24:27, 1Sa 7:12, Psa 11:4, 103:2, Luk 19:40 | TSK | STEP

Genesis 28:22

God's.

17; 12:8; 21:33; 33:20; 35:1,15

I will.

14:20; Le 27:30-33; De 14:22,23

Deuteronomy 27

1 The people are commanded to write the law upon stones,

5 and to build an altar of whole stones.

11 The tribes to be divided on Gerizim and Ebal.

14 The curses to be pronounced on mount Ebal.

Keep all.

4:1-3; 11:32; 26:16; Lu 11:28; Joh 15:14; 1Th 4:1,2; Jas 2:10

on the day.

6:1; 9:1; 11:31; Jos 1:11; 4:1,5-24

unto the.

3; 26:1

great stones.

Eze 11:19; 36:26

and plaister.Houbigant and others are of opinion that the original words, {wesadta othom beseed}, should be rendered "thou shalt cement them with cement," because this was intended to be a durable monument. Some suppose that the writing was to be in relievo, and that the spaces were to be filled up by the mortar or cement; as is frequently the case with eastern inscriptions.

thou shalt.

Jos 8:32; Jer 31:31-33; 2Co 3:2,3; Heb 8:6-10; 10:16

this law.This law probably means only the blessings and curses mentioned in this and the following chapter; which indeed contain an epitome of the whole law.

a land.

6:8; 26:9; Le 20:24; Nu 13:27; 14:8; Jos 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:22

in mount Ebal.The Samaritan text has in mount Gerizim; which has given rise to a violent controversy. Dr. Kennicott suppose that the Jews corrupted this passage out of their enmity to the Samaritans, who had their temple on mount Gerizim; while Dr. Parry and H. Verschuir defend the present reading: to the writings of these authors the reader is referred.

11:29,30; Jos 8:30-33

And there.

Ex 24:4; Jos 8:30,31; 1Ki 18:31,32

thou shalt not.

Ex 20:25

burnt offerings.

Le 1:1-17; Eph 5:2

peace offerings.

Le 3:1-17; 7:11-17; Ac 10:36; Ro 5:1,10; Eph 2:16,17; 2:16,17

Col 1:20; Heb 13:20,21

rejoice.

12:7,12; 16:11,14; 26:10,11; 2Ch 30:23-27; Ne 8:10; Ps 100:1,2

Isa 12:3; 61:3,10; Hab 3:18; Php 3:3; 4:4

thou shalt.

very plainly.

Hab 2:2; Joh 16:25; 2Co 3:12

this day.

26:16-18; Ro 6:17,18,22; 1Co 6:9-11; Eph 5:8,9; 1Pe 2:10,11

10:12,13; 11:1,7,8; Le 19:2; Mic 4:5; 6:8; Mt 5:48; Eph 4:17-24

1Pe 1:14-16; 4:1-3

upon mount Gerizim.Mount Gerizim and mount Ebal being only separated by a narrow valley, not above a furlong broad, what was spoken with a loud voice on the one might be heard on the other, (See Jud 9:7.) It is probable, however, that the particle {âl} should be rendered by, as it frequently signifies; for when this direction was reduced to practice, (Jos 8:33,) it seems that the people did not stand on the mountains, but over against them in the plain. But the Talmud says, that six tribes went up on each, while the priest and Levites and the ark remained beneath.

11:26-29; Jos 8:33,34; Jud 9:7

Simeon.

Ge 29:33-35; 30:18,24; 35:18

mount Ebal.

4; 11:29; Jos 8:33

to curse. Heb. for a cursing. Reuben.

Ge 29:32; 30:6-13,20; 49:3,4

33:9,10; Jos 8:33; Ne 8:7,8; Da 9:11; Mal 2:7-9

Cursed be.

28:16-19; Ge 9:25; 1Sa 26:19; Jer 11:3

maketh.

4:16-23; 5:8; Ex 20:4,23; 32:1-4; 34:17; Le 19:4; 26:1

Isa 44:9,10,17; Ho 13:2,3

an abomination.

29:17; 1Ki 11:5-7; 2Ki 23:13; 2Ch 33:2; Isa 44:19; Eze 7:20

Da 11:31; Mt 24:15; Re 17:4,5

and putteth.

Ge 31:19,34; 2Ki 17:19; Ps 44:20,21; Jer 23:24; Eze 8:7-12; 14:4

And all.

Nu 5:22; Jer 11:5; 28:6; Mt 6:13; 1Co 14:16

Amen.To each of the curses the people were to say Amen, as well as to the blessings; to denote a profession of their faith in the truth of them, that they were the real declarations of the wrath of God; and an acknowledgement of the equity of these curses. It was such an imprecation upon themselves, as strongly obliged them to have nothing to do with those evil practices on which the curse is entailed. We read of those who entered a curse to walk in God's law. Ne 10:29. All the people, by saying this Amen, became bound one for another, that they would observe God's laws, by which every man was obliged, as far as he could, to prevent his neighbour from breaking these laws, and to reprove those that had offended, lest they should bear sin and the curse for them.

21:18-21; Ex 20:12; 21:17; Le 19:3; Pr 30:11-17; Eze 22:7; Mt 15:4-6

19:14; Pr 22:28; 23:10,11

Le 19:14; Job 29:15; Pr 28:10; Isa 56:10; Mt 15:14; Re 2:14

10:18; 24:17; Ex 22:21-24; 23:2,8,9; Ps 82:2-4; Pr 17:23; 31:5

Mic 3:9; Mal 3:5

22:30; Ge 35:22; 49:4; Le 18:8; 20:11; 2Sa 16:22; 1Ch 5:1; Eze 22:10

Am 2:7; 1Co 5:1

Ex 22:19; Le 18:23; 20:15

Le 18:9; 20:17; 2Sa 13:1,8-14; Eze 22:11

Le 18:17; 20:14

19:11,12; Ex 20:13; 21:12-14; Le 24:17; Nu 35:31; 2Sa 3:27; 11:15-17

2Sa 12:9-12; 13:28; 20:9,10

10:17; 16:19; Ex 23:7,8; Ps 15:5; Pr 1:11-29; Eze 22:12,13

Mic 3:10,11; 7:2,3; Mt 26:15; 27:3,4; Ac 1:18

Cursed.

15; 28:15-68; Ps 119:21; Mt 25:41; 1Co 16:22

confirmeth.

Jer 11:3-5; Eze 18:24; Ro 3:19,20; 10:5; Ga 3:10

Joshua 24:27

A curious coincidence of circumstances is related by Livy, the Roman historian: he writes that "when three ambassadors were sent from Rome to complain of the perfidious conduct of the Æqui, the General informed them, that they might deliver their message to an oak which shaded his tent." On this one of the ambassadors turning away, said, "This venerable oak, and all the gods, shall know that you have violated the peace; they shall now hear our complaints; and may they also soon be witnesses, when we revenge with our arms the violation of divine and human rights." It is worthy of remark that Joshua merely set up a pillar under an oak,--the one, perhaps, to protect the other; while the General directed the ambassadors to address the oak, perhaps with an idolatrous feeling that they were addressing one of the gods, who would aid his cause; while the Roman ambassadors caught the feeling, and really invoked the aid of the oak and the gods.

22:27,28,34; Ge 31:44-52; De 4:26; 30:19; 31:19,21,26; 1Sa 7:12

it hath.

De 32:1; Isa 1:2; Hab 2:11; Lu 19:40

deny.

Job 31:23; Pr 30:9; Mt 10:33; 2Ti 2:12,13; Tit 1:16; Re 3:8