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.
Consequences of Disobedience
15 “But it shall come about, if you do not [n]obey the Lord your God, to be careful to [o]follow all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: 16 “Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the [p]country. 17 “Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 “Cursed will be the [q]children of your womb, the [r]produce of your ground, the newborn of your herd, and the offspring of your flock. 19 “Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out. 20 “The Lord will send against you curses, panic, and rebuke, in [s]everything you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have abandoned Me. 21 The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has eliminated you from the land where you are entering to take possession of it. 22 The Lord will strike you with consumption, inflammation, fever, feverish heat, and with [t]the sword, with blight, and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish. 23 [u]The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed. 25 “The Lord will cause you to be defeated by your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways from their presence, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 Your dead bodies will [v]serve as food for all birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 27 “The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, the festering rash, and with scabies, from which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with insanity, blindness, and with confusion of [w]mind; 29 and you will be groping about at noon, just as a person who is blind gropes in the darkness, and you will not be successful in your ways; but you will only be [x]oppressed and robbed all the time, with no one to save you. 30 You will [y]betroth a woman, but another man will [z]violate her; you will build a house, but you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not make use of its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey will be snatched away from you, and will not [aa]be restored to you; your [ab]sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you. 32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them constantly; but there will be nothing [ac]you can do. 33 A people whom you do not know will eat the produce of your ground and every product of your labor, and you will never be anything but oppressed and mistreated continually. 34 You will also be driven insane by the sight of [ad]what you see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and thighs with severe boils from which you cannot be healed, and strike you from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. 36 The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you appoint over you, to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, made of wood and stone. 37 And you will become an object of horror, a song of mockery, and an object of taunting among all the peoples where the Lord drives you. 38 “You will bring out a great amount of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locust will devour it. 39 You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor bring in the harvest, because the worm will eat it. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, because your olives will drop off prematurely. 41 You will father sons and daughters but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity. 42 The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground. 43 The stranger who is among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower. 44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will be the head, and you will be the tail. 45 “So all these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not [ae]obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46 And they will become a sign and a wonder [af]against you and your [ag]descendants forever. 47 “Since you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, in gratitude for the abundance of all things, 48 you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and devoid of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you. 49 “The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down; a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation [ah]with a defiant attitude, who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young. 51 Furthermore, it will eat the [ai]offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed; a nation that will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the newborn of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have eliminated you. 52 And it will besiege you in all your [aj]towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it will besiege you in all your [ak]towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you. 53 Then you will eat the [al]offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the hardship by which your enemy will [am]oppress you. 54 The man who is [an]refined and very delicate among you [ao]will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife [ap]he cherishes, and toward the rest of his children who are left, 55 so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the hardship by which your enemy will [aq]oppress you in all your [ar]towns. 56 The [as]refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness, [at]will be hostile toward the husband [au]she cherishes and toward her son and daughter, 57 and toward her afterbirth that comes from between her [av]legs, and toward her children to whom she gives birth, because she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the hardship with which your enemy will [aw]oppress you in your [ax]towns. 58 “If you are not careful to [ay]follow all the words of this Law that are written in this book, to [az]fear this honored and awesome name, [ba]the Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and [bb]your descendants, [bc]severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses. 60 And He will bring back on you every disease of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which are not written in the book of this Law, the Lord will bring on you until you are destroyed. 62 Then you will be left few in [bd]number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not [be]obey the Lord your God. 63 And it will come about that, just as the Lord rejoiced over you to be good to you, and make you numerous, so will the Lord rejoice over you to wipe you out and destroy you; and you will be torn away from the land which you are entering to possess. 64 Furthermore, the Lord will scatter you among all the peoples, from one end of the earth to [bf]the other; and there you will serve other gods, made of wood and stone, which you and your fathers have not known. 65 Among those nations you will find no peace, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. 66 So your lives will be [bg]hanging in doubt before you; and you will be terrified night and day, and have no assurance of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And at evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the terror of your heart which you fear, and the sight of your eyes which you will see. 68 And the Lord will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I said to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
Footnotes
Deuteronomy 28:1 Lit listen to the voice of
Deuteronomy 28:2 Lit listen to the voice of
Deuteronomy 28:3 Lit field
Deuteronomy 28:4 Lit fruit
Deuteronomy 28:4 Lit fruit
Deuteronomy 28:4 Lit fruit
Deuteronomy 28:7 Lit struck
Deuteronomy 28:8 Or storehouses
Deuteronomy 28:10 Lit the name of the Lord is called upon you
Deuteronomy 28:11 Lit fruit
Deuteronomy 28:11 Lit fruit
Deuteronomy 28:11 Lit fruit
Deuteronomy 28:13 Lit be careful and to perform
Deuteronomy 28:15 Lit listen to the voice of
Deuteronomy 28:15 Lit perform
Deuteronomy 28:16 Lit field
Deuteronomy 28:18 Lit fruit
Deuteronomy 28:18 Lit fruit
Deuteronomy 28:20 Lit every putting forth of your hand which you do
Deuteronomy 28:22 Another reading is drought
Deuteronomy 28:23 Lit Your
Deuteronomy 28:26 Lit be for
Deuteronomy 28:28 Lit heart
Deuteronomy 28:29 Or exploited
Deuteronomy 28:30 A betrothed couple was considered legally married, but did not yet live together
Deuteronomy 28:30 Or be intimate with
Deuteronomy 28:31 Lit return to
Deuteronomy 28:31 Or flock
Deuteronomy 28:32 Lit to the power of your hand
Deuteronomy 28:34 Lit your eyes which you
Deuteronomy 28:45 Lit listen to the voice of
Deuteronomy 28:46 Or on
Deuteronomy 28:46 Lit seed
Deuteronomy 28:50 Lit defiant-faced
Deuteronomy 28:51 Lit fruit
Deuteronomy 28:52 Lit gates
Deuteronomy 28:52 Lit gates
Deuteronomy 28:53 Lit fruit of your womb
Deuteronomy 28:53 Or torment
Deuteronomy 28:54 Or spoiled and pampered
Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit his eye will be evil toward
Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit of his breast
Deuteronomy 28:55 Or torment
Deuteronomy 28:55 Lit gates
Deuteronomy 28:56 Or spoiled and pampered
Deuteronomy 28:56 Lit her eye shall be evil toward
Deuteronomy 28:56 Lit of her breast
Deuteronomy 28:57 Lit feet
Deuteronomy 28:57 Or torment
Deuteronomy 28:57 Lit gates
Deuteronomy 28:58 Lit perform
Deuteronomy 28:58 Or revere
Deuteronomy 28:58 Heb YHWH
Deuteronomy 28:59 Lit plagues on your seed
Deuteronomy 28:59 Lit great
Deuteronomy 28:62 Lit people
Deuteronomy 28:62 Lit listen to the voice of
Deuteronomy 28:64 Lit the end of the earth
Deuteronomy 28:66 Lit be hung for you in front
31-34 Exhortation and blessings - Moses' last words before his death. History, law, and covenant
31 - the book - Deuteronomy 31:9-12 This law was to be kept at the place of worship and was to be read in the hearing of all Israel, every sabbatical year at the Feast of Tabernacle.
32 - the song - the Lord as the Rock
33 - the blessings
34 - Moses' death, written by Joshua?
