Bible in one year 5/11/2022 Deuteronomy Chapter 32-34
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Rev.Katherine Liu Bruce
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Deuteronomy 32 The Song of
Moses
Moses
recited the words of this song from beginning the end in the hearing of the
whole assembly of Israel, “ Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear , O earth, the
words of my mouth. let me teaching fall
like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Oh,
praise the greatness of our God! He is the Rock, His works are perfect, and all
His ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is He.” (vv.1-5). Rock. A symbol of God’s power as a
refuge for frail men (vv.13,15,18,30,31,37). Verses7-14 these verses furnish an
historical background: the dividing of the nations(v.8; Gen.10-11), the choosing
of Jacob(v.9), and the deliverance from Egypt (v.12). the apple of his eye
(v.10; Zech.2:8). The protection and training of Israel are described in the
illustration of the eagle(v.11).Verses 13-14 refer to experiences in
Transjordan, where the people had enjoyed honey and olive oil (the olive tree
yields abundantly when growing on limestone terraces, flinty crag), dairy
products, meat (concerning Bashan, Amos4:1), the richest grain, and wine.
Verses 15-18 Details of Israel’s rebellion . Jeshurun means “upright one” and is a term of endearment (Isa.44:2)
On verse 17, they sacrificed to demons which are not God refer to Lev.17:7 and
Psalm106:37. “They
made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I
will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by
a nation that has no understanding. For a fire has been kindled by my wrath,
one that burns to the realm of death below…”(vv.21-22). Moses recorded Israelites’ unfaithful, so resulted in God’s
punishment. Our hand has triumphed. (vv.27-31) God would limit the victories of
Israel’s enemies over her, lest they think they accomplished them in their own
power and thus take glory from God. Moses longed for Israel to understand that
God used her enemies fromHis purposes. The heathen are characterized as coming
from wicked stock.(v.32). God is absolutely sovereign(v.39) and will ultimately judge Israel’s enemies and
restore His chosen people. (vv.39-43). Joshua. Lit., Hoshea. (Num.13:16).
The Lord told Moses, “go up into the Abarim
Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land the
Lord is giving to the Israelites as their own possession. Because Moses broke
faith in the presence of the Israelites at waters of Meribah Kadesh in the
Desert of Zin and didn’t hold His holiness among the Israelites therefore,
Moses will not enter the land, but see the land only from a
distance.”(32:48-52). Moses, in traducing his blessing (Jacob’s in Gen.49),
recounts God’s advancing with His people from Sinai, Seir (Edom), and Paran (NE
part of the Sinai Peninsula). He came with myriads of holy ones in verse 3
refer to Israel, God’s separated people.
Before Moses his death, he blessed
and pronounced on the Israelites. The prayer for Reuben (v.6) reflects the
danger of the tribe’s decline, exposed as it was to Moab on the E. side of the
Jordan. The Septuagint makes the last half of the verse refer to Simeon, who is
omitted from the list. This omission was probably because Simeon’s portion of
land in Canaan was within the border of Judah (Josh.19:1-9). Moses prayed that
Judah (v.7) would take her place of leadership in Israel (Gen.49:8-12).
Concerning the Thummim and Urim, (v.8) (Ex.28:30), Levi was to be faithful as
Moses was at Massah and Meribah (Ex.17:2). The Levites’ duties are listed in
verses 10-11. The site of the future Temple in Jerusalem would be situated in
the territory of Benjamin.(v.12). Joseph (vv.13-17) represented by his two sons
Ephraim and Manasseh (v.17) would have the choicest part of the land. Zebulun
(v.18-19) was assured success in commercial dealings, including sea trade, and
Issachar in his agricultural pursuits (in your tents). Gad (vv.20-21), swift
and strong as a lion (v.20) got a piece of land fit for a ruler, yet he helped
the other tribes in the conquest of Canaan (v.21b). Dan (v.22) like an
aggressive lion’s cub, established a foothold in Bashan in the N., though his
original allotment was in the S (Juge.18). Naphtali (v.23), occupied the
fertile land W. and S. of the Lake of Galilee. The territory of Asher
(vv.24-25) was famous for its olives (oil). Asher would be given strength to
secure Israel’s northern border (v.25). God is above, beneath, and before His
people, an eternal refuge. (vv.26-29).
Chapter 34 Death of Moses
Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the
top of Pisgah, across from Jericho, there the Lord showed him the whole land
from Gilead to Da. All of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all
the land of Judah as far as the western sea, the Negev and the whole region
from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. Moses the
servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said. He buried him in
Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his
grace is. (vv.1-3,5-6) The western sea. The Mediterranean. Moses’ panorama was
toward the NE., then W. and S., and finally back to the plain between Jericho
and Nebo. Zoar. Located at the S. end of the Dead Sea. Though Moses’ exact burial
place is unknown, it was in the area where the people were camped (Beth Peor,
about ten miles E. of the Jordan at its mouth 3:29;4:46). With
Moses(v.10),God spoke face to face
(Ex.33:11; Num.12:8). Joshua needed the priests’ help in order to discover the
will of God (Num.27:21).
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Old Testament (NIV) Deuteronomy Chapter 32-34
Chapter 32 Song of Moses
32:1 Listen, O heavens,
and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
32:2 Let my teaching fall
like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like
abundant rain on tender plants.
32:3 I will proclaim the
name of the LORD. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
32:4 He is the Rock, his
works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong,
upright and just is he.
32:5 They have acted
corruptly toward him; to their shame they are no longer his children, but a
warped and crooked generation.
32:6 Is this the way
you repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your
Creator, who made you and formed you?
32:7 Remember the days
of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell
you, your elders, and they will explain to you.
32:8 When the Most
High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up
boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
32:9 For the LORD'S
portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.
32:10 In a desert land
he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him;
he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
32:11 like an eagle
that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to
catch them and carries them on its pinions.
32:12 The LORD alone
led him; no foreign god was with him.
32:13 He made him ride
on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He
nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag,
32:14 with curds and
milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of
Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the
grape.
32:15 Jeshurun grew fat
and kicked; filled with food, he became heavy and sleek. He abandoned the God
who made him and rejected the Rock his Savior.
32:16 They made him jealous
with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.
32:17 They sacrificed to
demons, which are not God--gods they had not known, gods that recently
appeared, gods your fathers did not fear.
32:18 You deserted the
Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
32:19 The LORD saw this
and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters.
32:20 "I will hide my
face from them," he said, "and see what their end will be; for they
are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.
32:21 They made me jealous by what is no god and
angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who
are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
32:22 For a fire has been kindled by my wrath,
one that burns to the realm of death below. It will devour the earth and its
harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
32:23 "I will heap calamities upon them
and spend my arrows against them.
32:24 I will send wasting famine against them,
consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of
wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
32:25 In the street the sword will make them
childless; in their homes terror will reign. Young men and young women will
perish, infants and gray-haired men.
32:26 I said I would scatter them and blot out
their memory from mankind,
32:27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest
the adversary misunderstand and say, 'Our hand has triumphed; the LORD has not
done all this.'"
32:28 They are a nation
without sense, there is no discernment in them.
32:29 If only they were
wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!
32:30 How could one man chase a thousand, or two
put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD
had given them up?
32:31 For their rock
is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.
32:32 Their vine comes
from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled
with poison, and their clusters with bitterness.
32:33 Their wine is
the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
32:34 "Have I not
kept this in reserve and sealed it in my vaults?
32:35 It is mine to
avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster
is near and their doom rushes upon them."
32:36 The LORD will judge
his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees their strength is
gone and no one is left, slave or free.
32:37 He will say:
"Now where are their gods, the rock they took refuge in,
32:38 the gods who ate
the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let
them rise up to help you! Let them give you shelter!
32:39 "See now that I myself am He! There is
no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I
will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.
32:40 I lift my hand to heaven and declare: As
surely as I live forever,
32:41 when I sharpen
my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on
my adversaries and repay those who hate me.
32:42 I will make my
arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain
and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders."
32:43 Rejoice, O nations, with his people, for he
will avenge the blood of his servants; he will take vengeance on his enemies
and make atonement for his land and people.
32:44 Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and spoke
all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.
32:45 When Moses
finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
32:46 he said to them,
"Take to heart all the
words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your
children to obey carefully all the words of this law.
32:47 They are not just idle words for you--they
are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the
Jordan to possess."
32:48 On that same day
the LORD told Moses,
32:49 "Go up into
the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan,
the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession.
32:50 There on the
mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people,
just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
32:51 This is because
both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters
of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my
holiness among the Israelites.
32:52 Therefore, you
will see the land only from a distance; you will not enter the land I am giving
to the people of Israel."
Chapter 33 Moses Blesses the Tribes
33:1 This is the
blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his
death.
33:2 He said:
"The LORD came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth
from Mount Paran. He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his
mountain slopes.
33:3 Surely it is you
who love the people; all the holy ones are in your hand. At your feet they all
bow down, and from you receive instruction,
33:4 the law that
Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.
33:5 He was king over
Jeshurun when the leaders of the people assembled, along with the tribes of
Israel.
33:6 "Let Reuben live
and not die, nor his men be few."
33:7 And this he said
about Judah: "Hear, O LORD, the cry of Judah; bring him to his people.
With his own hands he defends his cause. Oh, be his help against his
foes!"
33:8 About Levi he said:
"Your Thummim and Urim belong to the man you favored. You tested him at
Massah; you contended with him at the waters of Meribah.
33:9 He said of his
father and mother, 'I have no regard for them.' He did not recognize his
brothers or acknowledge his own children, but he watched over your word and
guarded your covenant.
33:10 He teaches your
precepts to Jacob and your law to Israel. He offers incense before you and
whole burnt offerings on your altar.
33:11 Bless all his
skills, O LORD, and be pleased with the work of his hands. Smite the loins of
those who rise up against him; strike his foes till they rise no more."
33:12 About Benjamin he
said: "Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in him, for he shields him
all day long, and the one the LORD loves rests between his shoulders."
33:13 About Joseph he
said: "May the LORD bless his land with the precious dew from heaven above
and with the deep waters that lie below;
33:14 with the best
the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can yield;
33:15 with the
choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the fruitfulness of the everlasting
hills;
33:16 with the best
gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwelt in the
burning bush. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the
prince among his brothers.
33:17 In majesty he is
like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will
gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim; such are
the thousands of Manasseh."
33:18 About Zebulun he
said: "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and you, Issachar, in your
tents.
33:19 They will summon
peoples to the mountain and there offer sacrifices of righteousness; they will
feast on the abundance of the seas, on the treasures hidden in the sand."
33:20 About Gad he said:
"Blessed is he who enlarges Gad's domain! Gad lives there like a lion,
tearing at arm or head.
33:21 He chose the
best land for himself; the leader's portion was kept for him. When the heads of
the people assembled, he carried out the LORD'S righteous will, and his judgments
concerning Israel."
33:22 About Dan he said:
"Dan is a lion's cub, springing out of Bashan."
33:23 About Naphtali he
said: "Naphtali is abounding with the favor of the LORD and is full of his
blessing; he will inherit southward to the lake."
33:24 About Asher he said:
"Most blessed of sons is Asher; let him be favored by his brothers, and
let him bathe his feet in oil.
33:25 The bolts of
your gates will be iron and bronze, and your strength will equal your days.
33:26 "There is no one like the God of Jeshurun,
who rides on the heavens to help you and on the clouds in his majesty.
33:27 The eternal God is your refuge, and
underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemy before you,
saying, 'Destroy him!'
33:28 So Israel will live in safety alone; Jacob's
spring is secure in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew.
33:29 Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you,
a people saved by the LORD? He is your shield and helper and your glorious
sword. Your enemies will cower before you, and you will trample down their high
places."
Chapter 34 The Death of Moses
34:2 all of Naphtali,
the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the
western sea,
34:3 the Negev and the
whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.
34:4 Then the LORD said to
him, "This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when
I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your
eyes, but you will not cross over into it."
34:5 And Moses the servant of the LORD died there
in Moab, as the LORD had said.
34:6 He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite
Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is.
34:7 Moses was a hundred
and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength
gone.
34:8 The Israelites
grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping
and mourning was over.
34:9 Now Joshua son of Nun
was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him.
So the Israelites listened to him and did what the LORD had commanded Moses.
34:10 Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel
like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
34:11 who did all those miraculous signs and
wonders the LORD sent him to do in Egypt--to Pharaoh and to all his officials
and to his whole land.
34:12 For no one has ever shown the mighty
power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
Bibliography,
Ryrie, Charles C. The
Ryrie study Bible (NIV).Chicago, IL: The Moody Bible Institute, 1986
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