Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 4:29
If thou seek him; if thou desirest his help and favour. See Deuteronomy 30:2; Isaiah 45:6. With all thy heart, i.e. sincerely and fervently. read more
If thou seek him; if thou desirest his help and favour. See Deuteronomy 30:2; Isaiah 45:6. With all thy heart, i.e. sincerely and fervently. read more
In the latter days; either in general, in succeeding ages and generations; or particularly, in the days of the Messias, which are commonly called in Scripture the latter, or last days, as Isaiah 2:2; Hosea 3:5; Micah 4:1; Daniel 2:44; Hebrews 1:2 Hebrews 1:9:26. And so this may respect the conversion and redemption of the Jewish nation even in those times when their case seems most desperate, when they have forsaken their God and rejected their Messias for many ages, to wit, towards the end of... read more
i.e. Made with thy fathers, including their posterity, as Genesis 17:7. read more
From the one side of heaven, i.e. of the earth under heaven. Ask all the inhabitants of the world. Compare Matthew 24:31, with Mark 13:27. read more
CRITICAL NOTES.—From the mention of what God had done for Israel, Moses passes to the obedience of the law. They were under deep obligation to keep it, and in doing so, consisted their wisdom, greatness, and destiny.Deuteronomy 4:1. Statutes—rules concerning religion and Divine worship. Judgments—civil enactments, public and private. The two denote the whole law in its leading features (Leviticus 19:37).Deuteronomy 4:2. This law must not be altered; but kept as God’s unchangeable... read more
Deuteronomy 4:21-22 We cannot consider this solemn, mysterious close of the great prophet's life without feeling that there are lessons of instruction the most manifold which are presented by it. Notice: I. A life may appear in some leading point of it to have been a failure, to have been defeated of that crowning success which in our short-sighted vision it had almost a right to claim, and may for all this have been a life most acceptable to God, and consummated with a death very precious in... read more
saw no manner Cf. (See Scofield " :-") . read more
Chapter 4NOW therefore ( Deuteronomy 4:1 )Moses is now making application.NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD the God of your fathers is given to you. For ye shall not add unto the word which I commanded, neither shall ye diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you ( Deuteronomy 4:1-2 ).So the forbidden to add or... read more
Deuteronomy 4:2 . Ye shall not add unto the word. This would be to debase revelation, and treat the divine law as a defective production of man, that needed additions and retrenchments. Solon, the Athenian lawgiver, obtained an oath from the principal officers of the senate to observe his laws inviolate for ten years, till he should return from his travels. Besides, the tabernacle being a type of heaven, would utterly be gaited and marred by the fanciful rituals devised by men. Yet many... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 4:28
i.e. Idols. You shall be compelled by men, and given up by me to idolatry. So that very thing which was your choice shall be your punishment; it being just and usual for God to punish one sin by giving them up to another, as is manifest from Romans 1:24,Romans 1:25. read more