Bible in one year 5/5 2022 Deuteronomy chapter 7-10
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Rev.Katherine Liu Bruce
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Deuternonomy Chapter 7 The Command
to destroy the Canaanites
The Lord has delivered Hittites,
Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven
nations to Israel and instructed Israelites to destroy them totally (v.2). From
the Hebrew root word for “devote”, meaning here “ to devote to destruction, to
exterminate”. And do not intermarry with them. Marriage to a heathen would
almost inevitably result in worshiping the heathen’s gods (Mal.2:11). Stones …Asherah poles (v.5) Stones were
associated with Baal worship, and Asherim were image of Asherah, the mother of
seventy gods, including Baal. God’s sovereign choice of Israel was not based on
the size of the nation (Abraham received the promise while still childless, and
Jacob’s immediate family consisted of only seventy individuals) but stemmed
from His love and from faithfulness to His covenant purpose for them.
(vv.6-11). Enjoyment of the blessings of God’s unconditional relationship to
His people was conditioned on their obedience.(vv.12-13). The horrible diseases
you knew in Egypt (v.15), these included ophthalmia, dysentery, smallpox and
elephantiasis. The conquest of Canaan would be progressive so that there would
not be an excessive accumulation of corpses and desolate land to attract
dangerous animals.(v.22). The Lord instructed Israelites to burn the images of their gods in the fire, and do not bring a detestable
thing into their house or there will be set apart for destruction. (vv.25-26)
however, Achan disobeyed this admonition(Josh.7:1).
Chapter 8 The Command to
remember God’s past dealings
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Chapter 9 Moses reminded
people’s sin and a stubborn refuse to submit
Moses reminded the
people of the sin of making the golden calf (Ex.32). God’s anger with Aaron
(Deut.9:20) is not mentioned in Exodus. Forty days and forty nights he ate no
bread and drank no water to receive two stone tablets inscribed by the finger
of God. Because Isarelies’ sins, Moses prayed to the Lord to overlook the
stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sins, if the Lord
destroy them all, other country may say “ because the Lord was not able to take
them into the land He had promised them and because He hated them, He brought
them out to put them to death in the desert. But they are Lord’s people,
inheritance that He brought out by His great power and His outstretched
arm.(vv.25-29). Therefore, the Lord did not destroy them. and gave Moses
another two stone tablets like the first ones and had written before, the Ten
Commandments.
Chapter 10 The Call to
Commitment.
The Lord call Israel to fear the Lord their God,
to walk in all His ways, to love him, to serve the Lord with all their hearts
and with all their soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees and
circumcise their hearts, don’t be stiff-necked any longer. For the Lord their
God is God of gods and Lord of lords(vv.12-17). Therefore, fear the Lord, serve
Him, hold fast to Him and take their oaths in His name. He is their praise, and
their God. (v.20). “circumcision”(v.16) (Gen.17:9-14) is here used
figuratively, meaning “separate yourselves from sin.(Jer.4:4). The Lord
(Yahweh; Ex.3:14-15) was no mere local deity, but the God of the universe(v.14)
He is also a righteous Judge (v.18) and Lord of the events of history
(v.21)
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Old
Testament (NIV)Deuteronomy Chapter 7 Driving Out the Nations
7:1 When the LORD your
God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before
you many nations--the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites,
Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you--
7:2 and when the LORD
your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you
must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.
7:3 Do not intermarry
with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for
your sons,
7:4 for they will turn
your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD'S anger will
burn against you and will quickly destroy you.
7:5 This is what you
are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down
their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.
7:6 For you are a
people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all
the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured
possession.
7:7 The LORD did not set
his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other
peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
7:8 But it was because the
LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought
you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the
power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
7:9 Know therefore
that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of
love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.
7:10 But those who
hate him he will repay to their face by destruction; he will not be slow to
repay to their face those who hate him.
7:11 Therefore, take
care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.
7:12 If you pay attention
to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep
his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers.
7:13 He will love you and
bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the
crops of your land--your grain, new wine and oil--the calves of your herds and
the lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your forefathers to give
you.
7:14 You will be blessed
more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor
any of your livestock without young.
7:15 The LORD will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict
on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all
who hate you.
7:16 You must destroy
all the peoples the LORD your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with
pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
7:17 You may say to
yourselves, "These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them
out?"
7:18 But do not be
afraid of them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all
Egypt.
7:19 You saw with your
own eyes the great trials, the miraculous signs and wonders, the mighty hand
and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD
your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.
7:20 Moreover, the
LORD your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide
from you have perished.
7:21 Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD
your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.
7:22 The LORD your God
will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be
allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around
you.
7:23 But the LORD your
God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until
they are destroyed.
7:24 He will give
their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under
heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them.
7:25 The images of their
gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and
do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is
detestable to the LORD your God.
7:26 Do not bring a
detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for
destruction. Utterly abhor and detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.
Chapter 8 Do Not Forget the Lord
8:1 Be careful to
follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase
and may enter and possess the land that the LORD promised on oath to your
forefathers.
8:2 Remember how the
LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble
you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you
would keep his commands.
8:3 He humbled you,
causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor
your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but
on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
8:4 Your clothes did
not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
8:5 Know then in your
heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
8:6 Observe the
commands of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and revering him.
8:7 For the LORD your
God is bringing you into a good land--a land with streams and pools of water,
with springs flowing in the valleys and hills;
8:8 a land with wheat
and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey;
8:9 a land where bread
will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron
and you can dig copper out of the hills.
8:10 When you have eaten
and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.
8:11 Be careful that you
do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and
his decrees that I am giving you this day.
8:12 Otherwise, when you
eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down,
8:13 and when your herds
and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is
multiplied,
8:14 then your heart will
become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of
Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
8:15 He led you through
the vast and dreadful desert, that thirsty and waterless land, with its
venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.
8:16 He gave you manna to
eat in the desert, something your fathers had never known, to humble and to test you so that in the end it might go well with
you.
8:17 You may say to
yourself, "My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth
for me."
8:18 But remember the LORD
your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so
confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.
8:19 If you ever forget
the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I
testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.
8:20 Like the nations the
LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD
your God.
Chapter 9 Not Because of Israel’s
Righteousness
9:1 Hear, O Israel.
You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater
and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky.
9:2 The people are
strong and tall--Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said:
"Who can stand up against the Anakites?"
9:3 But be assured
today that the LORD your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a
devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you
will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the LORD has promised you.
9:4 After the LORD
your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, "The LORD
has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my
righteousness." No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations
that the LORD is going to drive them out before you.
9:5 It is not because
of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take
possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations,
the LORD your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore
to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
9:6 Understand, then,
that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving
you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
The Golden Calf
9:7 Remember this and
never forget how you provoked the LORD your God to anger in the desert. From
the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious against
the LORD.
9:8 At Horeb you
aroused the LORD'S wrath so that he was angry enough to destroy you.
9:9 When I went up on
the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that
the LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty
nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.
9:10 The LORD gave me
two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the
commandments the LORD proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the
day of the assembly.
9:11 At the end of the
forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the
tablets of the covenant.
9:12 Then the LORD
told me, "Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought
out of Egypt have become corrupt. They have turned away quickly from what I
commanded them and have made a cast idol for themselves."
9:13 And the LORD said
to me, "I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people
indeed!
9:14 Let me alone, so
that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will
make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they."
9:15 So I turned and
went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets
of the covenant were in my hands.
9:16 When I looked, I
saw that you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves
an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way
that the LORD had commanded you.
9:17 So I took the two
tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your
eyes.
9:18 Then once again I
fell prostrate before the LORD for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread
and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was
evil in the LORD'S sight and so provoking him to anger.
9:19 I feared the
anger and wrath of the LORD, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you.
But again the LORD listened to me.
9:20 And the LORD was
angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron
too.
9:21 Also I took that
sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I
crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a
stream that flowed down the mountain.
9:22 You also made the
LORD angry at Taberah, at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah.
9:23 And when the LORD
sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, he said, "Go up and take possession of
the land I have given you." But you rebelled against the command of the
LORD your God. You did not trust him or obey him.
9:24 You have been
rebellious against the LORD ever since I have known you.
9:25 I lay prostrate
before the LORD those forty days and forty nights because the LORD had said he
would destroy you.
9:26 I prayed to the LORD
and said, "O Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your people, your own
inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with
a mighty hand.
9:27 Remember your
servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people,
their wickedness and their sin.
9:28 Otherwise, the
country from which you brought us will say, 'Because the LORD was not able to
take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he
brought them out to put them to death in the desert.'
9:29 But they are your
people, your inheritance that you brought out by your great power and your
outstretched arm."
Chapter 10 Tablets Like the First Ones
10:1 At that time the
LORD said to me, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and
come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden chest.
10:2 I will write on
the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you
are to put them in the chest."
10:3 So I made the ark
out of acacia wood and chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones, and
I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
10:4 The LORD wrote on
these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had
proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.
And the LORD gave them to me.
10:5 Then I came back
down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD
commanded me, and they are there now.
10:6 (The Israelites
traveled from the wells of the Jaakanites to Moserah. There Aaron died and was
buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.
10:7 From there they
traveled to Gudgodah and on to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.
10:8 At that time the
LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD,
to stand before the LORD to minister and to pronounce blessings in his name, as
they still do today.
10:9 That is why the
Levites have no share or inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their
inheritance, as the LORD your God told them.)
10:10 Now I had stayed
on the mountain forty days and nights, as I did the first time, and the LORD
listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you.
10:11 "Go,"
the LORD said to me, "and lead the people on their way, so that they may
enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them."
Fear the Lord
10:12 And now, O Israel,
what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk
in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart
and with all your soul,
10:13 and to observe the
LORD'S commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
10:14 To the LORD your God
belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.
10:15 Yet the LORD set his
affection on your forefathers and loved them, and he chose you, their
descendants, above all the nations, as it is today.
10:16 Circumcise your
hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer.
10:17 For the LORD your
God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who
shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.
10:18 He defends the
cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and
clothing.
10:19 And you are to
love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt.
10:20 Fear the LORD your
God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.
10:21 He is your praise;
he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw
with your own eyes.
10:22 Your forefathers
who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has
made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Bibliography,
Ryrie, Charles C. The
Ryrie study Bible (NIV).Chicago, IL: The Moody Bible Institute, 1986
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