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THE CHOICE OF LIFE AND DEATH

The Choice of Life and Death. “Listen closely, I have set before you today life and prosperity (good), and death and adversity (evil)

PROMISES TO RETURNING WANDERERS

Promises to returning wanderers. The Hebrew people have often turned to this chapter in the belief that the day must come when God will pity their forlorn condition and restore them from “the outmost parts of heaven.” They do not consider that the promise was fulfilled in the return of a handful of their race under Nehemiah and Ezra.

THE PENALTY OF SERVING FALSE GODS

The penalty of serving false gods .”It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath,
but with those [future Israelites] who are not here with us today, as well as with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God

THE COVENANT RENEWED IN MOAB

The Covenant Renewed in Moab. These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which He made with them at Horeb (Sinai).

THE BITTER FRUITS OF DISOBEYING GOD

. “The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle swoops down [to attack], a nation whose language you will not understand,
a defiant nation who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young,
and it will eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the offspring of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

THE FEARFULL RESULT OF DISOBEDIENCE

The fearful results of disobedience. “The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed, perishing quickly because of the evil of your deeds, because you have turned away from Me.

BLESSINGS UPON THE OBEDIENT

Blessings upon the obedient. “Now it shall be, if you diligently listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all of His commandments which I am commanding you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

THE ALTAR ON MOUNT EBAL

The Altar on Mount Ebal.

OFFERINGS OF FIRSTFRUITS AND TITHES

“Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and live in it,
that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you harvest from the land that the LORD your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His Name (Presence).

LAWS CONCERNING LEVIRATE MARRIAGE

Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage. “If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, the widow of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall be intimate with her after taking her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.