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Expositor's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:1-20

MOSES’ FAREWELL SPEECHESDeuteronomy 4:1-40, Deuteronomy 27:1-26; Deuteronomy 28:1-68; Deuteronomy 29:1-29; Deuteronomy 30:1-20.WITH the twenty-sixth chapter the entirely homogeneous central portion of the Book of Deuteronomy ends, and it concludes it most worthily. It prescribes two ceremonies which are meant to give solemn expression to the feeling of thankfulness which the love of God, manifested in so many laws and precepts, covering the commonest details of life, should have made the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Deuteronomy 30:1-20

26. The Dispersion, the Return and the Final Appeal CHAPTER 30 1. The message of hope (Deuteronomy 30:1-10 ) 2. The final appeal (Deuteronomy 30:11-20 ) These things, which Moses spoke into the ears of the people were to come to pass. And they have been fulfilled. The people Israel are scattered among all the nations, and yet they have not been assimilated by the nations. They are kept as a separate people. Connected with the prediction of their dispersion is the message of hope, the... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Deuteronomy 30:19

30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore {o} choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:(o) That is, love and obey God; which is not in man’s power, but only God’s Spirit works it in his elect. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 30:1-20

GOD'S GRACE TO THOSE WHO RETURN (vs.1-10) There are some (even Christians) who insist that Israel has departed so far from God that they can never be restored. But they must ignore chapter 30:1-10, and alsoRomans 9:1-33; Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36, which speak positively of Israel's eventual restoration. After all the blessing and cursing that Israel would experience, being driven out of their land, if they would remember God's word and return to Him with purpose of heart... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:1-20

THE PALESTINIAN COVENANT The subject of these chapters is new and exceedingly important, containing what is called the Palestinian covenant. Note that while the land was unconditionally given to Abraham and his seed in what we call the Abrahamic covenant (Genesis 13:15 ; Genesis 15:7 ), yet it was under another and conditional one that Israel ultimately entered the land under Joshua. It is this covenant that is recorded in the present chapters. This was utterly violated by the nation, for... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:15-19

Reader! while you and I attend to the close of Moses' Sermon, and hear the solemn appeal which the animated preacher makes to heaven, that he had executed his commission, and fully discharged his duty in referring the people to their choice: let us learn to bless GOD, that we are not only taught these things, but that we have the promise of grace, to enable us to perform them. Blessed be GOD! JESUS is the mediator of a better covenant, established upon better promises. The law made no provision... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:19

I call. He begins his canticle in the same emphatical manner, (chap. xxii.) as Isaias does his prophecy. (Haydock) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 30:15-20

15-20 What could be said more moving, and more likely to make deep and lasting impressions? Every man wishes to obtain life and good, and to escape death and evil; he desires happiness, and dreads misery. So great is the compassion of the Lord, that he has favoured men, by his word, with such a knowledge of good and evil as will make them for ever happy, if it be not their own fault. Let us hear the sum of the whole matter. If they and theirs would love God, and serve him, they should live and... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Deuteronomy 30:11-20

Death and Life set before Israel v. 11. For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off, it could not be said to be unusually difficult, either with regard to its knowledge or its fulfillment. v. 12. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it? v. 13. Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, who shall go over the sea for us and bring it... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Deuteronomy 30:1-20

Deuteronomy 30:1-201And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set [given] before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind [thou turnest it back (takest) to thy heart] among all the nations [heathen] whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee, 2And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart [with thine whole heart] and with... read more