JULY 23, 2023 Deuteronomy 32:8-9 When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance. This verse seems to allude to the fact that, early in human […]
JULY 22, 2023 Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. In this verse God encouraged the people to look to those who came before, and in a sense, to consult ancient history for wisdom. In […]
JULY 21, 2023 Deuteronomy 32: Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you? The preface for this verse speaks to the fact that Israel, though called to be a holy people, very often corrupted themselves thus prompting the LORD to ask, more or less, “Why are you behaving this way with me?” […]
JULY 20, 2023 Deuteronomy 32:3-4 Ascribe greatness to our God. He is the Rock; His work is perfect. For all His ways are justice, a God of truth and without injustice; righteous and upright is He. In the course of this song, we are reminded nine different times that our God is the Rock, which in Hebrew is ha’tzur. The term is used to […]
JULY 19, 2023 Deuteronomy 32:2 Let my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, as raindrops on the tender herb, and as showers on the grass. We must remember that it was the LORD who gave Moses the words to this song, and so, that the wording strikes a poetic tone should not […]
JULY 18, 2023 Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. Thus begins the song of which Moses spoke of in the preceding chapter. As I have already mentioned, it is a song that summarizes Israel’s history from Egypt to the borders of Canaan often emphasizing […]
JULY 17, 2023 Deuteronomy 31:26 Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there as a witness to you. When Moses had finished writing all the words of the Torah, he took the book to the Levites with the instruction to place it […]
JULY 16, 2023 Deuteronomy 31:19 Write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel. As I mentioned in the previous devotion, the song referred to recounts the failures of Israel and the […]
JULY 15, 2023 Deuteronomy 31:19 Write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel. It has long been proven that people can remember things better when they are set to music and […]
JULY 14, 2023 Deuteronomy 31:17 And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, “Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?” No one likes trouble to come into our life but, in this particular case, the trouble was, by and large, self inflicted — […]
JULY 13, 2023 Deuteronomy 31:16 And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.” Even before the people enter […]
JULY 12, 2023 Deuteronomy 31:10-1112 And Moses commanded them, saying: “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles, when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.” When Moses delivered the written Torah […]
