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- Despite Israel’s repeated rebellion, God’s faithfulness remains steadfast. It reminds us of the importance of recognizing our own weaknesses and dependence on God's mercy and grace.
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Jan 4, 2022 · When the Israelites refused to enter the Promised Land after hearing the report of the ten faithless spies in Numbers 13:31–33, they wanted to choose new leaders to take them back to Egypt (Numbers 14:1–4). At this rebellion, God was going to strike the entire nation down and start a new nation through Moses (Numbers 14:5–12).
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Dec 2, 2013 · In the wilderness, the people's fear leads to a failure to trust God. As a result they rebel against God’s plan for them to enter the land he promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Deut. 1:7-8). God had brought Israel out of slavery in Egypt, given the law at Mt. Horeb (Sinai), and brought the people swiftly to the borders of the promised ...
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Deuteronomy’s list borrows, paraphrases, and elaborates on formulae from ancient Near Eastern vassal treaties in a way that enabled it to exceed them in length, density, variegation, and creative viciousness. The Deuteronomist indulged in a spectacular rhetorical display, with an abundance of lively, sensual descriptions of calamities that will be ...
Deuteronomy 28 does not present its threats in a linear, intensifying fashion; indeed, total destruction is threatened towards the beginning of the list: Destruction (shmad < שׁ.מ.ד)—total loss (ovdan < א.ב.ד), used here as synonyms, together with the verb “ending” (“I will put an end,” akhale < כ.ל.ה), communicate finality, the culmination of the ...
The curses are set as part of Moses’ speech to the wilderness generation, and thus in the distant past, reflecting on the future: Here the presentation is from cause to effect: if they violate the covenant at some point in the indefinite, uncertain future, they will be punished with these curses. Later, the text tells the story in the other directi...
Throughout the early part of Moses’ speech earlier in Deuteronomy, before the introduction of the Deuteronomic law collection, Moses reminds the Israelites of their past sins. Thus, Deuteronomy retells the story of the spies, the golden calf, and also makes quick reference to other sins such as: The recollected events are narrated as examples for t...
Moses’s Deuteronomic address, delivered to the Israelites on the eve of their entry into the land, anticipates and establishes the perpetuity of the Israel’s subjection to YHWH’s rule. In this, YHWH was no different from any other suzerain in the ancient Near East, or ever since. The people as a multitude and as a nationare placed at a juncture in ...
While Deuteronomy’s narrative audience comprises people who experienced or heard eyewitness accounts of these wilderness period sins, for the literary audience, i.e., the intended readers of the book of Deuteronomy, these events are from the ancient past. And while the curses in chapter 28 are in the narrative audience’s distant future, for the lit...
The simulation of choice at the center of the covenant ceremony is presented more explicitly at the end of Joshua’s final speech, where, after telling the Israelites that they may no longer worship their ancestors’ gods, he continues (using the same temporal deictic rhetorical technique): The people respond adamantly that they are committed to serv...
In the prophetic tradition, the wilderness motif serves two contrasting purposes. On one end of the spectrum, it symbolizes Israel’s honeymoon period with Yahweh (Jer 2:2; Hos 2:15). On the other end, it represents Israel’s rebellion against Yahweh (Ezek 20:13).
Verses 10-17: Rebellion in the Wilderness. God recounts the Israelites' history in the wilderness, their violation of His laws and desecration of His Sabbaths. Yet, in His mercy, He withheld the fullness of His wrath for the sake of His name. Verses 18-26: Continued Disobedience of the Israelites.
Before the period of wilderness wandering, there were numerous examples of disobedience to God. You will recall how, in the time of the PROMISES TO ABRAHAM, Joseph's brothers sinned in selling him into slavery. Even Moses, a giant among people of faith, was not without a record of sin.
Deuteronomy 9 underscores the profound grace and mercy of God. Despite Israel’s repeated rebellion, God’s faithfulness remains steadfast. It reminds us of the importance of recognizing our own weaknesses and dependence on God's mercy and grace.
