DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 1 NOTES
v7-8 Not clear if he’s telling the 2.5 tribes that resided in Jordan to now leave Jordan to the promised land
They only leave temporarily to help the other tribes conquer the land, then they return to their land.
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DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 3 NOTES
v26 Do not recall when God was angry with Moses in this manner. Was it the incident that got Aaron killed? Really need to study that incident
Numbers 20:12 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
Here's my past post on this situation...
"Unbelief has many forms. It was easy to see Israel’s unbelief in Numbers 14 when they refused to trust God and enter Canaan. Here, Moses was also unbelieving, but in different circumstances. Moses did not trust God to correct His people, so he took it upon himself to do so at a time when God did not want to correct Israel. Moses acted more like an Egyptian prince than a servant of the LORD."
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DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4 NOTES
v30-31 “When thou are in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God; ) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.” - God is merciful. “latter days” was mentioned, I wonder what this means
"...in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God—either towards the destined close of their captivities, when they evinced a returning spirit of repentance and faith, or in the age of Messiah, which is commonly called "the latter days." (source: Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary)
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DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 6 NOTES
v16 Need to review what happened in Massah
We heard about Massah back in Exodus chapter 17. They camped at Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink. The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water so that we may drink!” So, Moses cried out to the Lord.
Exodus 17:5 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?
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DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 9 NOTES
v9 Has God been speaking or Moses “When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, the I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: “ - This appears as if Moses, have not been paying close attention, for some reason I thought God was speaking at times. You can stay alive not eating or drinking for 40 days
Only by the power of the Lord. We will see similarities with Christ when we get to the Gospels.
@CommodoreTeach if I may steal your wise words...
Moses in many ways was a foreshadow of Christ who was to come.
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v14 “Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and lot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.” - “blot their name from under heaven” not clear the meaning
As we go through the Bible, we will see similar verses at this. My viewpoint is that it means to be blotted out from the book of life. We seen this talked about in Exodus 32:32-33
32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
33 And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
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DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 10 NOTES
v20 Swear by God’s name in what manner?
Something interesting I read:
We are never discouraged in Scripture from making promises that are careful and that are well thought out, like maybe a wedding vow or testifying in court and you put your hand on the Bible and you swear before God to tell the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth. What Jesus is saying is that people who are citizens of God’s kingdom should be people of the truth, and people who revere God’s name. And so saying specifically, I swear to God in those particular situations, whether it’s a wedding vow or in a court of law, seem proper and acceptable.
They are. What we should not do, though, is use God’s name in jest, and we should not take God’s name lightly. We should not use it in a flippant manner. And if we are to make a solemn promise, again, it’s not so much the external words as what’s underneath that we need to be people as citizens of God’s kingdom who mean what we say and say what we mean as citizens of God’s kingdom. What Jesus is pointing to here is that we would be people who people can assume that what we say in everyday conversation should be taken truthfully without us having to swear by this or by that, and certainly not having to swear by God’s name. (sourece: bridges.church)
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DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 11 NOTES
v21 “…as the days of heaven upon the earth.” - not clear the meaning
"...as long as the heavens continue stretched over the earth, i.e. to the end of time, forever."
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DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 14 NOTES
v1 We should not cut ourselves. Not clear the meaning of “…nor make any baldness between your eyes…”
Among the pagan cultures surrounding Israel, it was common to cut the body or shave the front of one’s head, doing it
for the dead – that is, as a part of pagan burial rituals.
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v21 Reminder not to eat animals that have died, they must be killed while alive in order to eat it. Wonder what are the laws for selling meat in US grocery stores concerning selling the meat of animals that have died. Can sell the meat of dead animals to strangers and aliens. Alien meaning is belonging to foreign country or nation. Not clear the meaning “…Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.” - my initial impression is do not kill an animal that is still nursing from their mother’s milk
seethe: archaic definition is to cook (food) by boiling it in a liquid
This is the third place in which the prohibition is repeated [Ex 23:19; 34:26]. It was pointed against an annual pagan ceremony. (source: Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary)
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v24 Not clear the meaning
vs.24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.
In the land of Canaan, where the people would be scattered over a great extent of country, there would be many for whom the fulfillment of this command would be very difficult [in fact, almost impossible]. To meet this difficulty, permission was given for those who lived at a great distance from the sanctuary to sell the tithes at home and then to spend the money to purchase of the things required for the sacrificial meals at the place of the sanctuary. (source: Keil and Delitzsch)
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DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 15 NOTES
v9 Not clear the meaning. Took away that you should not be wicked and devise a plan not to help the poor
vs.9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
"This year of release typified the grace of the gospel, in which is proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord; and by which we obtain the release of our debts, that is, the pardon of our sins. The law is spiritual, and lays restraints upon the thoughts of the heart. We mistake, if we think thoughts are free from God's knowledge and check. That is a wicked heart indeed, which raises evil thoughts from the good law of God, as theirs did, who, because God had obliged them to the charity of forgiving, denied the charity of giving. Those who would keep from the act of sin, must keep out of their minds the very thought of sin. It is a dreadful thing to have the cry of the poor justly against us. Grudge not a kindness to thy brother; distrust not the providence of God. What thou doest, do freely, for God loves a cheerful giver." (source: Matthew Henry)
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Verite, I hope you are doing much better!
Take care and we'll see you soon!
Blessings.
) Too often, our hearts are hard and calloused instead of soft and sensitive toward God. Sometimes, I even question if hearts need to be circumcised more than once! 
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