Deuteronomy 27:1-28:14 NIV

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:1-26

Curses upon Evildoers Deuteronomy 27:1-26 Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal were two masses of limestone rock, reaching 2700 and 2000 feet above the sea-level. Between them lay a beautiful valley, about 300 yards wide. At the foot and on the lower slopes of Gerizim stood the descendants of Rachel and Leah; on those of Ebal, the descendants of Zilpah and Bilhah, together with Zebulun and with Reuben, who had forfeited the rights of the first-born. The priests and the Levites, grouped beside the... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 27:1-26

We have here the record of something distinctive and arresting. Immediately after the close of the second discourse containing a r6sum6 I of laws, Moses and the elders commanded the people that after they entered the land they were to erect on Mount Ebal stones that were to be covered with plaster and have inscribed on them the words of the Law, the reference to the Law there undoubtedly being to the Ten Commandments. Moreover, they were to build an altar on the same mountain The action was... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 27:1-8

e-Sword Note: For the section, "Deuteronoomy 27 Paraellels Exodus 24:0 ", see the chapter comments. For the section, "Shechem Was To Be The First ‘Place (Maqom) Which Yahweh Shall Choose’, " see the chapter comments. Moses and the Elders of Israel Call For The Witness to the Covenant To Be Set Up In Shechem (Deuteronomy 27:1-8 ). The covenant having been outlined in detail ‘Moses and the elders of Israel’ now speak up. It is clear that Moses had arranged for them to come and join him at... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:1-26

CRITICAL NOTES.—Connect this chapter with Deuteronomy 27:16 of preceding one, where Moses concludes discourse on plains of Moab. Here he dwells on sanctions of the law and sets forth in striking detail the blessings of obedience and curses of disobedience.Deuteronomy 27:1-4. On the day of entrance into the land, stones must be erected and the law written on them. Elders, rulers, and representatives of tribes, prominent, because they would require what was due after death of Moses. Great stones... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:1-26

Chapter 27In chapter twenty-seven, when you come into the land you are to take these stones and you are to build a tower and you are to plaster it. And then you are to write on the plaster of the tower the words of the law when you pass over into the land that God has given to you.Therefore it shall be when you have gone over Jordan, [verse four] that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster. And there shalt thou build... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 27:1-26

Deuteronomy 27:2 . Great stones, thought to be twelve in each pillar; they wrote the curses on the one pillar, and the blessings on the other. Deuteronomy 27:3 . Thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law. Not the six hundred precepts, which may be gathered from the short turns and phrases of Moses, but the blessings and the curses. The first altar was built of twelve stones, the day that the Israelites crossed the Jordan; but the two great pillars were not built till fifteen... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 27:1

Keep all: Deuteronomy 4:1-Leviticus :, Deuteronomy 11:32, Deuteronomy 26:16, Luke 11:28, John 15:14, 1 Thessalonians 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:2, James 2:10 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:1 - If thou shalt Deuteronomy 30:1 - the blessing Joshua 4:3 - twelve stones Joshua 8:30 - in mount Ebal read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 27:1

1. Moses with the elders… commanded The elders were the representatives of the whole nation in its character as a body politic. Moses is now near the close of his administration of the affairs of the people. He, therefore, intimately associates with himself the representatives of the nation. It would be their province to see that these commands were carried out. read more