DECEMBER 12, 2022 Deuteronomy 2:7 For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing. In the very first part of Moses’ discourse in Deuteronomy, the great teacher emphasized the reward of doubt, fear and […]
DECEMBER 9, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:39 Your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. Moses reminded them that, when Israel embraced the spies’ evil report, they accused God of […]
DECEMBER 8, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:31 The Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place. There is a rabbinic adage based on this passage that says, “A loving father carries his son when he is too young or too weak to make the […]
DECEMBER 3, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:22 And every one of you came near to me and said, “Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.” […]
DECEMBER 7, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:29-30 Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified, or afraid of them. The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes.” Once again, I think it is important to remember that the words spoken to Israel of […]
DECEMBER 6, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:28 Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts. The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. It is both compelling and sad to think that “our brethren” could be the ones to discourage us, […]
DECEMBER 5, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:26-27 Nevertheless, you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; and you complained in your tents, and said, “Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.” Murmuring against the purposes of […]
DECEMBER 4, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:23-24 The plan pleased me well; so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe. And they departed and went up into the mountains, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. Many have always assumed that God is the One who initiated the scouting mission executed by the […]
DECEMBER 2, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:16-17 Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him. You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any […]
DECEMBER 1, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:13 Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. Where Israel is concerned, the selection of leaders was to be based on integrity. In other words, it was never to be a popularity contest but a selection of men who had proven […]
NOVEMBER 30, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:9-10 And I spoke to you at that time, saying: “I alone am not able to bear you. The Lord your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.” There are two things that merit mentioning as we look at these verses. First, Moses acknowledged that God had blessed Israel in […]
NOVEMBER 29, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:6-7 The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: “You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the […]
