DEUTERONOMY
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Updated 12/2023
CHAPTER 1
- Moses reminded the people of
all the commandments of the Lord forty years and eleven months later since
Mt. Sinai.
- The generation at that time
was afraid of the people who lived there.
- a. None of the Israelite men
of that generation would enter into the land. b. Only Caleb and Joshua
would enter the land.
CHAPTER 2
- All the original men of war
died by the thirty-eighth year.
- The descendants of Esau
lived at Mt. Seir.
- The descendants of Lot were
in Ammon.
CHAPTER 3
- Israel defeated Og, King of
Bashan.
- a. Og was a giant. b. Og's
bed was nine cubits by four cubits (approximately 13 feet long by 6 feet
wide).
- Reuben, Gad, and the ½ tribe
of Manasseh took possession of their land on the east side of the Jordan.
- Moses had made God angry at
Kadesh by not hallowing Him before the people before commanding water out
of the rock (Nu. 20:12).
CHAPTER 4
- God spoke to Israel at Mt.
Horeb in a fire.
- Israel was never to make any
form or image of God to worship.
- Israel was never to worship
the heavens or the things in it (sun, moon, and stars).
- Israel could prolong their
days by keeping God's commandments and statutes.
- The three cities of refuge
on the east side of the Jordan was Bezer for Rueben, Ramoth for Gad, and
Golan for the half tribe of Manasseh.
CHAPTER 5
- By claiming His name but not
living as God wants we take His name in vain. Also, in swearing by God's
name to prove a falsehood.
- On the Sabbath we are to
rest and to remember God and what He has done for us.
- We should not desire or seek
selfishly or unjustly our neighbor's things. We should be content with
what God has given us.
- a. We honor our parents by
obeying, respecting, and treating them with dignity. b. We will live
longer and receive goodness from God when we honor our parents.
CHAPTER 6
- You must love the Lord your
God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength is
the greatest commandment.
- We must put the commandments
of God in our hearts and live by them at every opportunity.
- Teach diligently to your
children the commandments every chance you have.
- Remember that all this
goodness comes from God.
- The people were righteous by
keeping all of God’s commandments and statues.
CHAPTER 7
- Seven nations would be
destroyed by Israel in the land they would possess.
- God loved Israel and had
made a promise to their forefathers He would give them a land flowing with
milk and honey.
- God drove the people out
slowly so the beasts of the fields would not become too numerous in an
unoccupied city.
- Israel was to completely
destroy anything used for evil (idols), to utterly detest it, and not to
bring any of it into their homes.
CHAPTER 8
- Israel was to observe the
commandments of God so that they may live and multiply.
- The garments of the
Israelites never wore out during the forty years in the wilderness.
- We should never say in our
heart that we acquired anything on our own. All things are from God.
CHAPTER 9
- The nations were being
driven out before Israel because of their wickedness.
- Moses was on Mt. Horeb forty
days and forty nights.
- Moses broke the tablets
before the people of Israel.
- a. God wanted to destroy the
people for the molded calf. b. God wanted to kill Aaron for making the
molded calf.
CHAPTER 10
- Moses hewed two tablets of
stone to receive the Ten Commandments
again.
- Moses was on the mountain
another forty days and forty nights.
- God requires us to fear
Him, love Him, walk in His ways, and serve Him with all our heart and
soul.
- Moses wanted the people to
put God's laws and statutes in their hearts so they could live obediently
to God.
- Seventy people went down to
Egypt.
CHAPTER 11
- If the people earnestly
obeyed God’s commandments He would give the land plenty of rain and grass
for their crops and livestock.
CHAPTER 12
- The vowed offerings and
their holy things must still go to the place God chooses to dwell.
- Israel was not to do as the
other nations had done, by using carved images and passing their children
through the fire.
CHAPTER 13
- The people were to stone to
death anyone who tried to lead them astray from God.
- The people were to destroy
any thing used for evil purposes.
CHAPTER 14
- The people could eat the
animals that had both a split hoof and chewed the cud.
- All the meat or flesh
eating birds were unclean.
- The water animals with both
fins and scales on them could be eaten by the people
- Every third year the people
stored up tithes in their gates for the Levites, the stranger, the widow,
and the orphan.
CHAPTER 15
- A release of all debts was
done in the seventh year.
- They were not to withhold
helping the poor and the needy because the year of release was at hand.
- The seventh year sevants
were free to go.
- A servant was to be
released with plenty of livestock, food, oil, and wine.
- The master would pierce the
servant's ear.
CHAPTER 16
- The Passover was observed
with the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
- Feast of Unleavened Bread;
Feast of Weeks; Feast of Tabernacles.
- The judges and officers of
each tribe were to judge the people with just judgment.
CHAPTER 17
- Anyone who worshiped an
idol or carved image was to be stoned to death.
- Two or three witnesses were
required before someone was stoned.
- The priest and judge at
that time at the place of the Lord's tabernacle would decide the hard
cases.
- A king was to read the
scriptures of the Law all the days of his life.
CHAPTER 18
- The Levites received of the
offerings made by fire, of the first fruits of grain, wine, and oil, and
of the fleece of the sheep.
- Jesus was the prophet to
come (see Acts 3:22).
- He would speak for God and
stand between God and the people.
CHAPTER 19
- A place where someone could
flee to if he had unintentionally, without previous hatred or enmity,
killed someone.
- If anyone kills someone
intentionally, he is to die also.
- The punishment the false
witness intended on his brother shall be done to him.
CHAPTER 20
- If a man had a new house, a
newly planted vineyard, or engaged to be married he should not go to
battle lest someone else take over his place.
- A faint-hearted person was
not used in warfare as he would weaken others.
- Israel would offer to make
peace with them first so that they may live.
- Israel could keep the women,
children, and livestock for themselves.
- The people and livestock of
the land they were going to possess, the land of Canaan, lest the people
turn them to false gods.
CHAPTER 21
- The city closest to where
the slain body was found would make atonement for his life.
- An Israelite who wanted a
female captive to be his wife was to shave her head, clip her fingernails,
and wait one month.
- The firstborn, whether of
the loved or unloved wife, would receive a double portion of the
inheritance of his father.
- A rebellious son was to be
stoned to death.
CHAPTER 22
- Retrieve the lost animal or
possession and bring it to whom it belongs. If unknown whose it is then
wait till he comes looking for it.
- A woman was never to wear
anything that pertained to a man nor a man anything that pertained to a
woman.
- A woman found to not be a
virgin was to be stoned to death.
- Both the man the woman
shall be put to death for adultery.
- When a woman is attacked
outside a city where no one can hear her cries for help only the man shall
be put to death.
CHAPTER 23
- An emasculated person, an
illegitimately born person, and an Ammonite or Moabite was not allowed
into the assembly of the Lord.
- The men in camp were always
to have an implement to dig to cover their refuse.
- Do not charge any interest
to your brethren.
- All vows to the Lord must
be paid or it will be a sin to the one who made the vow.
CHAPTER 24
- A woman could not remarry a
man from whom she was divorced if she had married another man. It is an
abomination to the Lord.
- A newly married man must
stay home one year before going to war.
- Sheaves were left for the
stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
CHAPTER 25
- Forty blows was maximum lest
he be humilitated.
- The deceased husband's
brother should raise an heir for his brother.
- Weights and scales should be
just and perfect measures, not done dishonestly
CHAPTER 26
- The people were to bring an
offering of firstfruits of all the produce already there to God.
- Every third year the people
stored up the tithes of their increase for the needy and for the Levites.
CHAPTER 27
- They were to write the
words of the law on the stones.
- Curses were pronounced from
Mount Ebal.
CHAPTER 28
- Obedience of God’s
commandments brought abundant blessings in all that the people did or
possessed.
- Disobedience to God’s
commandments brought cursings, disease, and pestilence in all that they
did or possessed. They would be besieged and carried off captive by
another nation.
CHAPTER 29
- Their clothes and shoes had
not worn out.
- A man who followed the
dictates of his heart would have no peace. The jealousy and the anger of
God will be aroused against that man and his name will be blotted out
under heaven.
CHAPTER 30
- If the people turn back to
God He would bring them back from captivity and restore all that they had.
- The people had to choose
between life and blessing, or death and cursing.
- Life and blessing was from
obedience to God and His commandments.
CHAPTER 31
- Joshua would lead the
people after Moses.
- The words of the law were
to be read before all the people at the appointed time of release during
the Feast of Tabernacles.
- God knew the inclination of
their hearts by their actions thus far. They were rebellious when Moses
was with them, they will be more rebellioius when he is gone.
CHAPTER 32
- The song of Moses would be
proof later of God's prediction
that Israel would turn away from Him after they entered into the
new land and had become full from the land.
- God chose the words of the
song of Moses.
- Moses could not enter the
Promised Land because he had not hallowed God (honored or given God the
credit for the water) at the rock of Kadesh.
- Moses was to go up to the
top of Mount Nebo and view the land Israel was going to possess. There he
would also die.
CHAPTER 33
- a. Moses honored God first
in his final blessing on Israel. b. Moses then blessed the twelve tribes
of Israel.
CHAPTER 34
- God showed Moses all the
land that Israel was going to possess.
- a. Moses died on Mount Nebo
in the land of Moab. b. God buried Moses in a valley opposite Beth Peor
but his body was never found. c. Moses was 120 years old when he died but
was still with good eyesight and vigor in his body.