Common reactions to Deuteronomy I think people tend to have a variety of reactions to Deuteronomy. They think it's boringconfusingharshsimply historicalsimply culturalor, along the same line, Continue Reading
Reading Deuteronomy Chapter 34
Summary: Moses gets to view the promised land from Mount Nebo. Yahweh shows it to him far and wide. Then Moses dies and God buries him. No man knows where he is buried. It is noted that Moses was Continue Reading
Reading Deuteronomy Chapter 33
Summary: Before he dies, Moses blesses Israel. The blessing is in poetic form, beginning and ending with sections that extol the greatness of Yahweh and how he has taken care of them. In between that, Continue Reading
Reading Deuteronomy Chapter 32
Summary: Moses teaches them the song that both expounds on the greatness and justice of Yahweh, as well as tells how the false gods they will follow will not save them. He will repay those who hate Continue Reading
Reading Deuteronomy Chapter 31
Summary: Moses tells all Israel that he is going to die. They should not be afraid or discouraged to go over the Jordan because it is Yahweh who is with them. He tells them about reading the law every Continue Reading
Reading Deuteronomy Chapter 30
Summary: Moses talks about them remembering the blessing and the curse when they are driven among the nations, and that if they will then return to Yahweh, he will gather them from the uttermost Continue Reading
Reading Deuteronomy Chapter 29
Summary: Moses reminds them of what Yahweh did in the land of Egypt and how they have been led in the wilderness for 40 years without their clothes growing old. The defeat of Sihon and Og is reviewed Continue Reading
Reading Deuteronomy Chapter 28
Summary: In this sobering chapter, the potential blessings and the potential curses are laid out in detail for Israel. If they will listen to Yahweh's voice, the blessing will be abundant and Continue Reading
Reading Deuteronomy Chapter 27
Summary: Moses and the elders of Israel command the people to set up stones, coat them with plaster, and write all the words of the law on them. They are also to build an alter of uncut stones upon Continue Reading
Reading Deuteronomy Chapter 26
Summary: Moses describes how they should bring some of the first fruit of the ground in a basket to the priest and recite a remembrance of how they became a nation and were brought to the land. The Continue Reading