Deuteronomy (The 2nd Message) Summary (Nasb 1995), 2nd Most Quoted By Christ Except The Psalms

They disobeyed and followed the sinful practices of the Canaanites.

1-4 1st sermon - disobedience

2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. Numbers records on the 12th day after they came to Mt. Sinai they could have entered the Promised Land. Instead, they disbelieved God.

1. Dispatching spies from Kadesh-barnea

2. Long years in the wilderness

3. Conquest of Sihon and Og

4. God's refusal to let Moses go into the Promised Land - Deut 3:23-26

4-26 2nd sermon - review of Mosaic law. compiled by him

Deuteronomy 8:2-5 God's Providence

Deuteronomy 11:1 “You shall therefore love the Lord your God, and always keep His directive, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments

Deuteronomy 12: 19 Be careful that you do not abandon the Levite [a]as long as you live in your land." Support for the ministry.

Deuteronomy 15: 16, 17 - the willing servant

Deuteronomy 16: 19 You shall not distort justice, you shall not [a]show partiality; and you shall not accept a bribe, because a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and distorts the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 17: 6 "On the [a]testimony of two witnesses or three witnesses, the [b]condemned shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the [c]testimony of only one witness.

Deuteronomy 17:14-20 Instructions concerning a king

Deuteronomy 18:9-14

Spiritism Forbidden

9 “When you enter the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to [a]imitate the detestable things of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, a soothsayer, one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who consults the dead. 12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these detestable things the Lord your God is going to drive them out before you. 13 You are to be blameless before the Lord your God. 14 For these nations, which you are going to dispossess, listen to soothsayers and diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.

Deuteronomy 18:15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen; to him you shall listen.

Deuteronomy 22 - brotherhood and charity

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 Law of Divorce

24 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, that he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and [a]sends her away from his house, 2 and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man’s wife, 3 and the latter husband [b]turns against her, writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand, and [c]sends her away from his house, or if the latter husband who took her to be his wife dies, 4 then her former husband who [d]sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, after [e]she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Footnotes

Deuteronomy 24:1 Or dismisses her

Deuteronomy 24:3 Lit hates her

Deuteronomy 24:3 Or dismisses her

Deuteronomy 24:4 Or dismissed her

Deuteronomy 24:4 I.e., in relationship to him

Deuteronomy 25: 13-15 honest weights of measures

27-30 3rd sermon - blessings and cursings, Palestinian covenant - This gives a forecast of the history of Israel. This covenant foretold the dispersion because of disobedience. It also foretells of their future repentance and conversion, the return of the Lord, and restoration of their land-it was a conditional covenant. Abraham's covenant

was unconditional.

The Blessings at Mount Gerizim

28 “Now it shall be, if you diligently [a]obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I am commanding you today, that the Lord your God will put you high above all the nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings will come to you and reach you if you [b]obey the Lord your God: 3 “Blessed will you be in the city, and blessed will you be in the [c]country. 4 “Blessed will be the [d]children of your womb, the [e]produce of your ground, and the [f]offspring of your animals: the newborn of your herd and the young of your flock. 5 “Blessed will be your basket and your kneading bowl. 6 “Blessed will you be when you come in, and blessed will you be when you go out. 7 “The Lord will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be [g]defeated by you; they will go out against you one way and will flee at your presence seven ways. 8 The Lord will command the blessing for you in your [h]barns and in everything that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 9 The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. 10 So all the peoples of the earth will see that [i]you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of you. 11 And the Lord will give you more than enough prosperity, in the [j]children of your womb, in the [k]offspring of your livestock, and in the [l]produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The Lord will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless every work of your hand; and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. 13 And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will only be above, and not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God which I am commanding you today, to [m]follow them carefully, 14 and do not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or the left, to pursue other gods to serve them.