Deuteronomy 16-18 - Yahweh Will Raise Up a Prophet

The Passover

Deu 16:2 LSB - [2] "And you shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where Yahweh chooses for His name to dwell.

The Feast of Weeks

Deu 16:10-12 LSB - [10] "Then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give just as Yahweh your God blesses you; [11] and you shall be glad before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female slaves and the Levite who is within your gates and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell. [12] "And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

The Feast of Booths

Deu 16:13-14 LSB - [13] "You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat; [14] and you shall be glad in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female slaves and the Levite and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are within your gates.

Deu 16:16 LSB - [16] "Three times in a year all your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty-handed.

Do Not Distort Justice

Deu 16:20 LSB - [20] "Righteousness! Righteousness, you shall pursue, that you may live and possess the land which Yahweh your God is giving you.

Deu 17:7 LSB - [7] "The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Judging Cases

Deu 17:12 LSB - [12] "And the man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to minister to Yahweh your God, or to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

Statutes for the King

Deu 17:18-20 LSB - [18] "Now it will be when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. [19] "And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to carefully observe all the words of this law and these statutes, [20] that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he may prolong [his] days in his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.

The Portion of the Levites

Deu 18:6-7 LSB - [6] "Now if a Levite comes from any of your gates [of the towns] throughout Israel where he sojourns and comes whenever he desires to the place which Yahweh chooses, [7] then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God like all his brothers the Levites who stand there before Yahweh.

Do Not Imitate Abominations

Deu 18:13 LSB - [13] "You shall be blameless before Yahweh your God.

Yahweh Will Raise Up a Prophet

Deu 18:20-22 LSB - [20] 'But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.' [21] "Now you may say in your heart, 'How will we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?' [22] "When a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy 13-15 - Remission of Debt Every Seven Years

Stone Those Who Prophesy Against Yahweh

Deu 13:1-4 LSB - [1] "If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, [2] and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, 'Let us walk after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,' [3] you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you to find out if you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul. [4] "You shall walk after Yahweh your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.

Deu 13:17-18 LSB - [17] "Now nothing from that which is devoted to destruction shall cling to your hand, in order that Yahweh may turn from His burning anger and grant compassion to you and show compassion to you and make you multiply, just as He has sworn to your fathers, [18] if you will listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, keeping all His commandments which I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of Yahweh your God.

Clean and Unclean Animals

Deu 14:6 LSB - [6] "And any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof split in two [and] chews the cud, among the animals, that [one] you may eat.

Deu 14:22-23 LSB - [22] "You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year. [23] "And you shall eat in the presence of Yahweh your God, at the place where He chooses for His name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God all [your] days.

Deu 14:26-27 LSB - [26] "And you may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of Yahweh your God and be glad, you and your household. [27] "Also you shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion or inheritance among you.

Remission of Debt Every Seven Years

Deu 15:7-8 LSB - [7] "If there is a needy one among you, one of your brothers, in any of your gates [of the towns] in your land which Yahweh your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor close your hand from your needy brother; [8] but you shall freely open your hand to him and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need [in] whatever he lacks.

Deu 15:10-11 LSB - [10] "You shall generously give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you send forth your hand [to do]. [11] "For the needy will never cease [to be] in the land; therefore I am commanding you, saying, 'You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your afflicted and needy in your land.'

Deu 15:12-15 LSB - [12] "If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall let him go [to be] free from you. [13] "When you let him go [to be] free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. [14] "You shall furnish him generously from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as Yahweh your God has blessed you. [15] "And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you this today.

Deu 15:16-17 LSB - [16] "And it will be that, if he says to you, 'I will not go out from you,' because he loves you and your household, since he fares well with you; [17] then you shall take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also you shall do likewise to your maidservant.

I love, I love my Master

Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879)

1 I love, I love my Master,
I will not go out free,
For He is my Redeemer;
He paid the price for me.
I would not leave His service,
It is so sweet and blest;
And in the weariest moments
He gives the truest rest.

2 My Master shed His life-blood
My vassal life to win,
And save me from the bondage
Of tyrant self and sin.
He chose me for His service,
And gave me power to choose
That blessed, perfect freedom,
Which I shall never lose.

3 I would not halve my service,
His only it must be!
His only, who so loved me,
And gave Himself for me.
Rejoicing and adoring,
Henceforth my song shall be,
I love, I love my Master,
I will not go out free.

 

Deu 15:19-20 LSB - [19] "You shall set apart as holy to Yahweh your God all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock; you shall not work with the firstborn of your herd nor shear the firstborn of your flock. [20] "You and your household shall eat it every year before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh chooses.

Deuteronomy 10-12 - Yahweh’s Chosen Place of Worship

The Tablets Rewritten

Deu 10:1-2 LSB - [1] "At that time Yahweh said to me, 'Carve out for yourself two tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood for yourself. [2] 'And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered, and you shall put them in the ark.'

Circumcise Your Heart

Deu 10:12-13 LSB - [12] "So now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask from you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, [13] [and] to keep the commandments of Yahweh and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?

Deu 10:16 LSB - [16] "So circumcise your heart, and stiffen your neck no longer.

Rom 2:28-29 LSB - [28] For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. [29] But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.

Col 2:11 LSB - [11] in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

Deu 10:19 LSB - [19] "So show love for the sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Deu 10:20-21 LSB - [20] "Yahweh your God you shall fear; Him you shall serve, and to Him you shall cling, and by His name you shall swear. [21] "He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done these great and fearsome things for you which your eyes have seen.

Love and Serve Yahweh

Deu 11:1 LSB - [1] "You shall therefore love Yahweh your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments all [your] days.

Deu 11:2, 7 LSB - [2] "So know this day that I [am] not [speaking] with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of Yahweh your God--His greatness, His strong hand and His outstretched arm, ... [7] but your own eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which He did.

1Jo 2:12-14 LSB -

[12] I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake.

[13] I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you have known the Father.

[14] I have written to you, fathers, because you have known Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Deu 11:18-20 LSB - [18] "You shall therefore place these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as phylacteries between your eyes. [19] "And you shall teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up. [20] "And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

A Blessing and a Curse

Deu 11:29 LSB - [29] "And it will be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

Yahweh’s Chosen Place of Worship

Deu 12:5-6 LSB - [5] "But you shall seek [Yahweh] at the place which Yahweh your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come. [6] "And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

Deu 12:11 LSB - [11] Then it will be that the place in which Yahweh your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to Yahweh.

Deu 12:15 LSB - [15] "However, you may sacrifice and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

Deuteronomy 7-9 - Do Not Forget Yahweh Your God

Devote the Nations to Destruction

Deu 7:5-6 LSB - [5] "But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars and shatter their [sacred] pillars and cut their Asherim in pieces and burn their graven images with fire. [6] "For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for His own treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deu 7:7-8 LSB - [7] "Yahweh did not set His affection on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, [8] but because Yahweh loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your fathers, Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Yahweh’s Covenant Blessings

Deu 7:12-13 LSB - [12] "Then it will be, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you His covenant and His lovingkindness which He swore to your fathers. [13] "And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.

Do Not Forget Yahweh Your God

Deu 8:2 LSB - [2] "And you shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Deu 8:3 LSB - [3] "And He humbled you and let you be hungry and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh.

Deu 8:11-14 LSB - [11] "Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God by not keeping His commandments and His judgments and His statutes which I am commanding you today; [12] lest you eat and are satisfied and build good houses and live [in them], [13] and your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, [14] and your heart becomes lifted up and you forget Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Deu 8:18 LSB - [18] "But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as [it is] this day.

Israel Provoked Yahweh

Deu 9:4 LSB - [4] "Do not say in your heart when Yahweh your God has driven them out before you, saying, 'Because of my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land,' but [it is] because of the wickedness of these nations [that] Yahweh is dispossessing them before you.

Deu 9:7 LSB - [7] "Remember, do not forget how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that you went out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 4-6 - The Commandment to Love Yahweh

Keep the Commandments of Yahweh

Deu 4:2 LSB - [2] "You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I am commanding you.

Rev 22:18-19 LSB - [18] I bear witness to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book. [19] And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.

Deu 4:3-4 LSB - [3] "Your eyes have seen what Yahweh has done in the case of Baal-peor, for all the men who walked after Baal-peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from among you. [4] "But you who clung to Yahweh your God are alive today, every one of you.

Deu 4:7 LSB - [7] "For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as is Yahweh our God whenever we call on Him?

Deu 4:10 LSB - [10] "[Remember] the day you stood before Yahweh your God at Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, 'Assemble the people to Me, that I may cause them to hear My words so they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.'

The Ten Commandments Repeated

Deu 5:2-5 LSB - [2] "Yahweh our God cut a covenant with us at Horeb. [3] "Yahweh did not cut this covenant with our fathers, but with us, [with] all those of us alive here today. [4] "Yahweh spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire. [5] I was standing between Yahweh and you at that time, to declare to you the word of Yahweh; for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain. He said,

Deu 5:22 LSB - [22] "These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, [of] the cloud and [of] the dense gloom, with a great voice, and He added no more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

The Commandment to Love Yahweh

Deu 6:1-2 LSB - [1] "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments, which Yahweh your God has commanded [me] to teach you, that you might do [it] in the land where you are going over to possess it, [2] so that you and your son and your grandson might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I am commanding you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

Deu 6:4-5 LSB - [4] "Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh is one! [5] "You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Deu 6:6-9 LSB - [6] "These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. [7] "You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. [8] "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as phylacteries between your eyes. [9] "You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 1-3 - Wanderings in the Wilderness

John MacArthur Bible Introductions - Deuteronomy

Israel from Seir to Kadesh-barnea

Deu 1:2 LSB - [2] It is eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.

Deu 1:5 LSB - [5] Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law, saying,

Deu 1:34-36 LSB - [34] "Then Yahweh heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and swore [an oath], saying, [35] 'Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers, [36] except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and to his sons I will give the land on which he has set foot, because he has followed Yahweh fully.'

Deu 1:43-44 LSB - [43] "So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead you rebelled against the command of Yahweh and acted presumptuously and went up into the hill country. [44] "And the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out to meet you and pursued you as bees do and crushed you from Seir to Hormah.

Wanderings in the Wilderness

Deu 2:7 LSB - [7] "For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; He has known your wanderings through this great wilderness. These forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing."'

Deu 2:14-15 LSB - [14] "Now the time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war came to an end from within the camp, as Yahweh had sworn to them. [15] "Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to bring them into confusion from within the camp until they all came to an end.

Deu 2:30 LSB - [30] "But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass through his land, for Yahweh your God stiffened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to give him over into your hand, as [he is] today.

I Want Jesus to Walk with Me

1. I want Jesus to walk with me.

I want Jesus to walk with me.

All along my pilgrim journey,

I want Jesus to walk with me.

2. In my trials, walk with me.

In my trials, walk with me.

When the shades of life are falling,

I want Jesus to walk with me.

3. In my sorrows, walk with me.

In my sorrows, walk with me.

When my heart within is aching.

I want Jesus to walk with me.

4. In my troubles, walk with me.

In my troubles, walk with me.

When my life becomes a burden,

I want Jesus to walk with me.

Israel Takes Possession of the Land

Deu 3:21-22 LSB - [21] "And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, 'Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings; so Yahweh shall do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross. [22] 'Do not fear them, for Yahweh your God is the one fighting for you.'

Moses Pleads to Cross the Jordan

Deu 3:24-26 LSB - [24] 'O Lord Yahweh, You have begun to show Your slave Your greatness and Your strong hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as Yours? [25] 'Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.' [26] "But Yahweh was angry with me on your account and would not listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, 'Enough! Speak to Me no more of this matter.

1 Thessalonians 1-5 - The Dead in Christ Will Rise

Thanksgiving

1Th 1:2-5 LSB -
[2] We give thanks to God always for all of you, making mention [of you] in our prayers;
[3] remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before our God and Father,
[4] knowing, brothers beloved by God, your election,
[5] for our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full assurance; just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.

Entrusted with the Gospel

1Th 2:2 LSB - [2] but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much struggle.

1Th 2:13 LSB - [13] And for this reason we also thank God without ceasing that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but [for] what it really is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

Timothy’s Good Report

1Th 3:2 LSB - [2] and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you as to your faith,

1Th 3:6-8 LSB - [6] But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always remember us kindly, longing to see us just as we also long to see you, [7] for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith; [8] for now we [really] live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

1Th 3:9-10 LSB - [9] For what thanks can we render to God for you in return for all the joy with which we rejoice before our God because of you, [10] as we night and day keep praying most earnestly that we may see your face, and may complete what is lacking in your faith?

Sanctification and Love

1Th 4:7 LSB - [7] For God did not call us to impurity, but in sanctification.

1Th 4:9-10 LSB - [9] Now concerning love of the brothers, you have no need for [anyone] to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, [10] for indeed you do practice it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel still more,

The Dead in Christ Will Rise

1Th 4:16-17 LSB - [16] For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of [the] archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. [17] Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.

Take comfort, Christians, when your friends in Jesus fall asleep;

John Logan (1748-1788)

Take comfort, Christians, when your friends
in Jesus fall asleep;
their better being never ends;
why then dejected weep?

Why inconsolable, as those
to whom no hope is giv’n?
Death is the messenger of peace,
and calls the soul to heav’n.

As Jesus dy’d, and rose again
victorious from the dead;
so his disciples rise, and reign
with their triumphant Head.

The time draws nigh, when from the clouds
Christ shall with shouts descend,
and the last trumpet’s awful voice
the heavens and earth shall rend.

Then they who live shall changed be,
and they who sleep shall wake;
the graves shall yield their ancient charge,
and earth’s foundations shake.

The saints of God, from death set free,
with joy shall mount on high;
the heav’nly hosts with praises loud
shall meet them in the sky,

Together to their Father’s house
with joyful hearts they go;
and dwell for ever with the Lord,
beyond the reach of woe.

A few short years of evil past,
we reach the happy shore,
where death-divided friends at last
shall meet, to part no more.

The Day of the Lord

1Th 5:2 LSB - [2] For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

1Th 5:8-10 LSB - 

[8] But since we are of [the] day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. 

[9] For God has not appointed us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, [10] who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.

Admonishment and Instruction

1Th 5:16-19 LSB - [16] Rejoice always; [17] pray without ceasing; [18] in everything give thanks, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. [19] Do not quench the Spirit;

1Th 5:23 LSB - [23] Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.