GOD in the Old Testament - Deuteronomy - Part 5

Deuteronomy 4:29-31   (Deuteronomy 4 continued)

But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and obey him. For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.

 

Deuteronomy 4:32-35  

    Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this every happened, or has anything like it every been heard of? Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived? Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

    You were shown these things so that you might know that the LORD is God; besides him there is no other. 

 

Deuteronomy 4:39-40  

    Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other. Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the LORD your God gives you for all time.

(see all Deuteronomy 4)

 

Deuteronomy 5:1-2  

    Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them. The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

 

Deuteronomy 5:6-7  

    "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

    You shall have no other gods before me."

 

Deuteronomy 5:9-10  

"You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments."

(Deuteronomy 5 continues tomorrow) 

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Deuteronomy - Part 4

Deuteronomy 4:10-13  (Deuteronomy 4 continued)

Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, "Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children." You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness. Then the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice. He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets. 

 

Deuteronomy 4:15-19  

    You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourself an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air, or any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below. And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars--all the heavenly array--do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

 

Deuteronomy 4:21-26  

    The LORD was angry with me because of you, and he solemnly swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance. I will die in the this land; I will not cross the Jordan; but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land. Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

    After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time--if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God and arousing his anger, I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.

(Deuteronomy 4 continues tomorrow)     

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Deuteronomy - Part 3

Deuteronomy 3:3 

    So the LORD our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors.

 

Deuteronomy 3:18-20  

    I commanded you at that time: "The LORD your God has given you this land to take possession of it. But all your able-bodied men, armed for battle, must cross over ahead of the other Israelites. However, your wives, your children and your livestock (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I have given  you, until the LORD gives rest to your fellow Israelites as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you." 

 

Deuteronomy 3:21-22  

    At that time I commanded Joshua: "You have seen with your own eyes all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms over there where you are going. Do not be afraid of them; the LORD your God himself will fight for you."

[see all Deuteronomy 3]

 

Deuteronomy 4:1-8  

    Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the LORD your God that I give you.

    You saw with your own eyes what the LORD did at Baal Peor. The LORD your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor, but all of you who held fast to the LORD your God are still alive today.

    See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it. Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him? And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today? 

[Deuteronomy 4 continues tomorrow]  

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Deuteronomy - Part 2

Deuteronomy 1:29-33  

    Then I said to you, "Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, and in the wilderness. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place."

    In spite of this, you did not trust in the LORD your God, who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

 

Deuteronomy 1:41-42  

    Then you replied, "We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God commanded us." So everyone of you put on his weapons, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.

    But the LORD said to me, "Tell them, 'Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you. You will be defeated by your enemies.' "

(see all Deuteronomy 1)

 

Deuteronomy 2:7  

    The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.

 

Deuteronomy 2:28-30  

"Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot--as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us--until we cross the Jordan into the land the LORD our God is giving us." But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.

 

Deuteronomy 2:32-33  

    When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz, the LORD our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. 

 

Deuteronomy 2:36-37  

    From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them. But in accordance with the command of the LORD our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.

(see all Deuteronomy 2)    

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Deuteronomy - Part 1

Deuteronomy 1:6-8  

    The LORD our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates. See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the LORD swore he would give to your fathers--to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--and to their descendants after them."

 

Deuteronomy 1:10-13  

"The LORD your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky. May the LORD, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times and bless you as he has promised! But how can I (Moses) bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes all by myself? Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you."

 

Deuteronomy 1:16-17  

"And I charged your judges at that time, "Hear the disputes between your people and judge fairly, whether the case is between two Israelites or between an Israelite and a foreigner residing among you. Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case that is too hard for you, and I will hear it."

 

Deuteronomy 1:19-21  

    Then, as the LORD our God commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites through all that vast and dreadful wilderness that you have seen, and so we reached Kadesh Barnea. Then I said to you, "You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us. See, the LORD your God has given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."

 

Deuteronomy 1:24-26  

They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshkol and explored it. Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, "It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us."

    But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

(Deuteronomy 1 continued tomorrow) 

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Numbers - Part 4

Numbers 24:2-4  

When Balaam looked out and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came on him and he spoke his message:

    "The prophecy of Balaam, son of Beor,

        the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly,

    the prophecy of one who hears the words of God,

        who sees a vision from the Almighty,

        who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened: ..." 

 

Numbers 24:8  

    "God brought them out of Egypt;

        they have the strength of a wild ox.

    They devour hostile nations

        and break their bones in pieces;

        with their arrows they pierce them."

 

Psalm 24:15-16  

    Then he spoke this message:

    "The prophecy of Balaam, son of Beor,

        the prophecy of one who sees clearly,

    the prophecy of one who hears the words of God,

        who has knowledge from the Most High,

    who sees a vision from the Almighty,

        who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened: ..." 

 

Numbers 24:23-24  

    Then he spoke his message:

    "Alas! Who can live when God does this?

        Ships will come from the shores of Cyprus;

    they will subdue Ashur and Eber,

        but they too will come to ruin." 

    (see all Numbers 24)

 

Numbers 25:10-13  

    The LORD said to Moses, "Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites."

(see all Numbers 25) 

 

Numbers 27:15-17  

    Moses said to the LORD, "May the LORD, the God who gives breath to all living things, appoint someone over this community to go out and come in before them, one who will lead them out and bring them in, so the LORD's people will not be like sheep without a shepherd."

(see all Numbers 27) 

 

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GOD in the Old Testament - Numbers - Part 3

Numbers 23:3-10  

    Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you." Then he went off to a barren height. 

    God met with him, and Balaam said, "I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram."

    The LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, "Go back to Balaam and give him this word."

    So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials. Then Balaam spoke this message:

    "Balak brought me from Aram,

        the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.

    'Come,' he said, 'curse Jacob for me;

        come, denounce Israel.'

    How can I curse

        those whom God has not cursed?

    How can I denounce

        those whom the LORD has not denounced?

    From the rocky peaks I see them, 

        from the heights I view them.

    I see a people who live apart

        and do not consider themselves one of the nations.

    Who can count the dust of Jacob

        or number even a fourth of Israel?

    Let me die the death of the righteous,

        and may my final end be like theirs!"

 

Numbers 23:18-23  

    Then he spoke this message:

    "Arise, Barak, and listen;

        hear me, son of Zippor.

    God is not human, that he should lie,

        not a human being, that he should change his mind.

    Does he speak and then not act?

        Does he promise and not fulfill?

    I have received a command to bless;

        he has blessed, and I cannot change it.

 

    "No misfortune is seen in Jacob.

        no misery observed in Israel.

    The LORD their God is with them;

        the shout of the King is among them.

    God brought them out of Egypt;

        they have the strength of a wild ox.

    There is no divination against Jacob,

        no evil omens against Israel.

    It will now be said of Jacob

        and of Israel, 'See what God has done!' "

 

Numbers 23:27  

    Then Barak said to Balaam, "Come, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there."

(see all Numbers 23) 

 

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