Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Usage CC0 1. Read by volunteer readers. The Hebrew title, "[spoken] words", is taken from the opening phrase, "These are the words The book consists of three sermons or speeches delivered to the Israelites by Moses on the plains of Moab, shortly before they enter the Promised Land. The first sermon recapitulates the forty years of wilderness wanderings which have led to this moment, and ends with an exhortation to observe the law or teachings ; the second reminds the Israelites of the need for exclusive allegiance to one God and observance of the laws he has given them, on which their possession of the land depends; and the third offers the comfort that even should Israel prove unfaithful and so lose the land, with repentance all can be restored.
And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
And we went over the brook Zered. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you. And the blood shall be forgiven them. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. And all the people shall say, Amen. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, 2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, 3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. It was a word that Israel needed to hear over and over again.
Upon reading the Pentateuch, Israel was brought ever anew to the threshold of the promised land and its promised "rest" to hear again this final word from God through his servant Moses see also Ps b For this reason, all the history of Israel in Canaan as narrated in the Former Prophets is brought under the judgment of this word.
The book of Deuteronomy was cast in the form of ancient Near Eastern suzerainty-vassal treaties of the second millennium b. It contained the Great King's pledge to be Israel's Suzerain and Protector if they would be faithful to him as their covenant Lord and obedient to the covenant stipulations as the vassal people of his kingdom. There would be blessings for such obedience, but curses for disobedience chs.
Deuteronomy's purpose was to prepare the new generation of the Lord's chosen people to be his kingdom representatives in the land he had unconditionally promised them in the Abrahamic covenant see Structure and Outline below; see also notes on ; , The love relationship of the Lord to his people, and that of the people to the Lord as their sovereign God, pervade the whole book. Deuteronomy's spiritual emphasis and its call to total commitment to the Lord in worship and obedience inspired references to its message throughout the rest of Scripture.
In particular, the division of the Hebrew Bible called the Former Prophets Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings is thoroughly imbued with the style, themes and motifs of Deuteronomy. Among the Latter Prophets, Jeremiah also reflects strong influence from this book. Deuteronomy's literary structure supports its historical setting. By its interpretive, repetitious, reminiscent and somewhat irregular style it shows that it is a series of more or less extemporaneous addresses, sometimes describing events in nonchronological order see, e.
But it also bears in its structure clear reflections of the suzerain-vassal treaties of the preceding and then-current Near Eastern states, a structure that lends itself to the Biblical emphasis on the covenant between the Lord and his people.
In this sense Deuteronomy is a covenant renewal document, as the following outline shows:. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
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