Deuteronomy

“Deuteronomy is Moses speaking. After forty years in the wilderness, he's about to die. He sees the Promised Land but won't enter it. And instead of bitterness, he preaches to the people. He recounts t”

“Then we turned back and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea, as the Lord had directed me. For a long time we wandered about in the hill country of Seir. The most direct route ”

“I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying: O Lord GOD, You have only begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand. Let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan. But t”

“Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan, to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if they had unintentionally killed their neighbor without malice aforethought. One of the citie”

“Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, O Israel, the decrees and laws I am about to declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them. The Ten Commandments are repeated in Deuter”

“You shall teach these words diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise. This is the vision of religi”

“When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy, and He clears away many nations before you, then you must utterly destroy them. Make no covenant with them and s”

“You must diligently observe all the commandment that I am commanding you today, so that you may live and increase, and go in and occupy the land that the LORD swore to your ancestors. Remember the lon”

“Hear, 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. Know therefore today that the Lord y”

“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? There it is - fear and love at the same time. I spent years thi”

“You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and fix them as an emblem on your forehead. Teach them to your children, talking about them whe”

“Moses gives detailed instructions about what to do when the Israelites enter the land: destroy the altars, break the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles. Don't worship the gods of the land. Establish ”

“Today it speaks comfort; a year ago it spoke conviction. This is one of those passages that reads differently in every season of life. God is faithful in every circumstance. This is one of those pass”

“You are children of the LORD your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be”

“Every seven years, let your land rest and let your debts rest. Anyone who owed money - the debt was canceled. Anyone who was enslaved - they went free. The economy itself practiced justice. I'm an ec”

“Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover. Remember that you came out of the house of slavery. This feast is commanded memory - a rehearsal of freedom that happened in the past, made present and”

“When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say: I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me”

“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people. You shall heed such a prophet. This is Moses speaking, promising a successor. The rabbis interpreted this as point”

“Their context of persecution gives these words a weight we often miss. God is faithful in every circumstance. God meets us exactly where we are - broken, uncertain, yet chosen. This connects directly ”

“When you go out to war against your enemies, and you see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the lan”

“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who won't obey his parents, both father and mother can bring him to the elders. The passage suggests capital punishment. It's one of the most troubling laws ”

“You shall not see your neighbor's ox or sheep straying, and withhold your help from them; you shall take them back to their owner. If the owner does not reside near you or you do not know who the owne”

“When you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not put off fulfilling it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and you would incur guilt. But if you refrain from vowing, you will not inc”

“If a man takes a wife and then finds no favor in her because he has found some indecency in her, he may write a certificate of divorce. The law permits it. But Moses is clearly limiting the practice. ”

“The promise here is not conditional on our strength but on His character. His timing, His methods, His purposes - all beyond our comprehension, yet perfectly good. This is one of those passages that r”

“The contrast between human weakness and divine strength is so vivid in this passage. It implies covenant loyalty, steadfast love that never wavers. His timing, His methods, His purposes - all beyond o”

“God is faithful in every circumstance. God is faithful in every circumstance. God is faithful in every circumstance. God is faithful in every circumstance. This connects directly to the promise made t”

“But if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all His commands and decrees, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you. Then follows a long list: curses in the city, i”

“God is faithful in every circumstance. Reading the Psalms alongside this gives a fuller picture of what the author was experiencing - both the anguish and the hope. I notice the repetition here is del”

“The command that I give you today is not too hard for you, nor is it too far off. It is not in heaven that you should say: who will go up to heaven for us? It is not beyond the sea that you should say”

“Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel. He said to them: I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to go out and come in. Moses is at the end. He can no longer l”

“Listen, heavens, and I will speak; hear, earth, the words of my mouth. Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. Mos”

“Moses blesses each tribe individually, naming particular gifts and calling. Judah gets leadership. Benjamin gets God's presence. Joseph gets abundance. Each tribe recognized for something specific. M”

“Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land. And the LORD said to him: this is the land I swore to Abraham, Isaac”