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THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on Deuteronomy
Chapter Selection:

1:1e plain

The Arabah: so ver. 7; chs. 2:8; 3:17; 4:49; 11:30; Josh. 3:16; 18:18; Zech. 14:10.

1:4a and

See Josh. 12:4.

1:5b unfold

Or 'expound.'

1:7c lowland

The Shephelah, tract of fertile low country in the west of Palestine, as Josh. 9:1, &c.

1:7d south

See Gen. 12:9.

1:13e, 1:15e chiefs

'Head,' as Ex. 6:14.

1:15f officers

These were evidently civil officers constantly associated with 'judges,' as chs. 16:18; 20:9, Num. 11:16, Josh. 8:33, &c.

1:19g mountain

Or 'hill-country;' and so vers. 20, 24, &c.: see Num. 13:29.

1:26a word

Lit. 'mouth;' and so ver. 43.

1:32b thing

Or 'in spite of that.'

1:32c believe

See Note, Num. 14:11.

1:35d see

See Num. 14:23, and Note.

1:41e, 1:43e hill

Or 'mountain,' ver. 19.

1:44e hill

Or 'mountain,' ver. 19.

1:44a Hormah

'Destruction:' see Num. 14:45.

2:11b giants

Rephaim; and so ver. 20 and ch. 3:11, 13; Gen. 14:5.

2:13c, 2:14c torrent

Or 'valley;' elsewhere also translated 'river,' as in vers. 24, 36, 37: the word applies equally to the gorge in which the torrent runs; Gen. 26:17. See Note, ver. 36.

2:32a Jahaz

Or perhaps 'Jahzah' (Josh. 13:18, &c.); and so in Num. 21:23.

2:36b river, ravine

'River' and 'ravine' are here the same Hebrew word; and so ch. 3:16; Josh. 12:2, &c. See Note, ch. 2:13.

2:37c mountain

Or 'highlands.'

2:37d forbidden

Lit. 'bidden.'

3:9a Senir)

See ch. 4:48, Sion.

3:11b cubit

Or 'lower arm's length.' The cubit length is taken from the lower arm of a man -- as foot from our foot.

3:13c even

Or 'for;' cf. ver. 4.

3:14d Havoth-Jair

i.e. villages or nomadic encampments of Jair: some read 'called it after his own name, Bashan-Havoth-Jair.'

3:17e plain

The Arabah, see ch. 1:1.

3:21a go

Lit. 'pass.'

3:25b good, goodly

Same word as 'good,' Gen. 1:4.

4:3c Baal-Peor

Or 'the Baal of Peor.'

4:7d God

Or 'its god.'

4:23a forbidden

Lit. 'bidden,' as ch. 2:37

4:27b company

Lit. 'men of number,' or 'that can be numbered:' a usual idiom; see Gen. 34:30; 1Chron. 16:19; Ps. 105:12; and cf. ch. 33:6; Jer. 44:28.

4:37a countenance

i.e. in revealing Himself.

4:40b ever

Lit. 'all the days.'

4:43c plateau

Lit. 'in the country of the plateau.'

4:49d plain

The Arabah: see ch. 1:1; Josh. 3:16.

5:6a bondage

Lit. 'bondmen:' so chs. 6:12; 7:8; 8:14; and elsewhere frequently.

5:9b sons

Or 'children.'

5:10c mercy

Chesed, 'loving-kindness;' it is the same in ch 7:9, 12 (not ch. 7:2), Ex. 20:6, &c. See Note, 2Chron. 6:42.

5:11d idly

Or 'for an untruth;' so Ex. 20:7: see Lev. 19:12.

5:14e sojourner

Or 'stranger,' Lev. 20:2.

5:17f kill

Or 'murder.'

5:28a that

Lit. 'they have done all well that.'

5:29b continually

Lit. 'all the days:' so ch. 6:24.

5:31c, 6:1c commandments

Lit. 'commandment.'

6:9a gates

Gates of cities or of enclosures.

6:10b, 6:11b good

As ch. 3:25.

6:16c Massah

Temptation.

6:25d commandments

Lit. 'this commandment.'

7:5a Asherahs

See Ex. 34:13.

7:6b possession

Or 'a peculiar people,' see Ex. 19:5; Ps. 135:4; Mal. 3:17.

7:13c increase

According to some, 'ewes,' as propagating the flock: Heb. 'ashtaroth,' or 'astartes' of the flock; and so ch. 28:4, 18, 51.

8:9a copper

The word often rendered 'brass.'

8:12b fine

Or 'good,' as ch. 3:25.

9:10a assembly

Or 'congregation.' Same Hebrew word as congregation in Ex. 12:6.

9:12a themselves

Or 'are acting corruptly.'

9:12b way

Or 'quickly forsaken the way.'

9:15c in

Or 'on.'

9:23d word

Lit. 'mouth.'

9:26e Lord

Adonai, as ch. 3:24.

10:4a assembly

Elsewhere 'congregation:' see ch. 9:10.

10:22b made

Lit. 'put.'

11:1a continually

Lit. 'all the days.'

11:2b God

Or 'know ye this day (for I speak not with ... your God) his greatness,' &c.

11:6c them

Lit. 'was at their feet.' Ex. 11:8.

11:20a gates

See ch. 6:9.

11:24b Lebanon

Or 'to Lebanon.'

11:24c hinder

Or 'western,' i.e. the Mediterranean: so ch. 34:2.

11:30d of

Or 'beyond the way toward the going down of the sun which crosses the land of.'

11:30e plain

The Arabah, see ch. 1:1: Josh. 3:16.

12:3f Asherahs

See Ex. 34:13.

12:7a wherein

Or 'because.'

12:13b offer

See Note, Lev. 14:20: so ver. 14.

12:15c, 12:21c slay

Zevach, 'sacrifice:' as chs. 15:21; 18:3, &c., and Ex. 23:18; Lev. 17:5.

12:23a life

Or 'soul:' see Lev. 17:11.

12:26b hallowed

Lit. 'holy.'

12:27c offer

'Do.'

12:28d hear

Or 'keep, and hear.'

13:5e draw

Or 'thrust.'

13:5f put

Lit. 'consume by fire,' as often in Deut.

13:12a in

Or 'of.'

13:13b Belial

Meaning 'worthlessness:' so always.

13:14c be

Lit. 'behold, it is:' see chs. 17:4; 19:18.

14:5d dishon, oryx

A kind of antelope.

14:11a birds

Lev. 14:4.

14:12b eagle

Or 'lammergeier:' see Lev. 11:13.

14:16c swan

See Lev. 11:18.

14:23d continually

Lit. 'all the days.'

14:28e increase

Properly 'produce.'

14:29f stranger

Or 'sojourner,' Lev. 20:2.

15:4g when

Or 'only that.'

15:6a borrow

Lit. 'thou shalt give no pledge.'

15:9b thought

Lit. 'a thing of Belial.'

15:9c in

Or 'on;' and so ch. 24:15.

15:10d evil-disposed

Or 'grieved.'

15:11e poor

Or 'afflicted' as Ps. 10:12.

15:14f furnish

Strictly, 'adorn,' as with a necklace.

15:21a sacrifice

See ch. 12:15.

16:10b voluntary-offering

Or 'according to the measure of the voluntary offering.'

16:13c tabernacles

Lit. 'booths,' as Lev. 23:34, 42, &c.

16:17a give

Lit. 'the gift of his hand.'

16:18b officers

See ch. 1:15.

16:20c Perfect

Lit. 'justice, justice.'

16:21d Asherah

See Ex. 34:13.

17:1e sheep

Or 'goat.'

17:4f be

See Note, ch. 13:14.

17:8g hard

Lit. 'too wonderful.'

18:3a sheep

Or 'goat.'

18:5b continually

Lit. 'all the days:' so ch. 19:9.

18:11a Python

Or 'a necromancer.'

18:16b assembly

Or 'congregation,' as ch. 9:10; 10:4.

18:20c presume

Elsewhere 'act proudly.'

19:6a death

Lit. 'there was for him no judgment of death.'

19:15b sinneth

Or 'in any sin that is committed.'

19:16c witness

Lit. 'witness of violence,'

19:18d be

Lit. 'and behold, the witness is.'

20:5e officers

See ch. 1:15.

20:6a it

Lit. 'profaned it,' or 'made it common,' according to the custom of the fifth year; see Lev. 19:24, 25; Jer. 31:5.

20:19b besieged

Others, 'not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life), to employ them in the siege.'

21:4a, 21:6a watercourse

Or 'valley,' ch. 2:13.

21:5b word

Lit. 'mouth.'

21:8c Forgive

Or 'Be propitious to.'

21:8d charge

Lit. 'in the midst.'

21:8e them

Or 'shall be forgiven them.'

21:10f them

Lit. 'thou hast led captive his captivity.'

21:12g pare

Lit. 'do.'

21:14h desire

Lit. 'soul:' so ch. 23:24.

21:20i profligate

Or 'glutton,' as Prov. 23:20 ('riotous eaters'), and 21.

21:22a death

Lit. 'of a judgment of death.'

22:2b bring

Lit. 'gather it in the midst of the house.'

22:4c help

Lit. 'be with.'

22:9d forfeited

Lit. 'hallowed,' or 'set apart to God,' i.e. appropriated to the sanctuary as a forfeit.

22:12e clothing

Lit. 'covering.'

22:14f virgin

Lit. 'virginity in her.'

22:19a remain

Lit. 'be.'

23:4b Mesopotamia

Same as Aram-naharaim, see Gen. 24:10, and Note.

23:7a sojourner

Or 'stranger.'

23:13b weapons

Others, 'a paddle upon thy weapon.'

23:24c desire

See ch. 21:14.

24:4a defiled

Or 'been made to defile herself.'

24:5b taken

Lit. 'hath taken a new.'

24:6c upper

i.e. the mobile stone; the lower part was fixed.

24:7d one

Lit. 'a soul.'

24:14e, 24:15e poor

Or 'afflicted,' as ch. 15:11.

24:14f sojourners

Or 'strangers.'

24:15g it

Lit. 'he lifteth his soul to it.'

24:15h in

Or 'there be sin upon.'

24:20a shakest

Or 'beatest.'

25:2b beaten

Lit. 'be a son of smiting.'

25:5c brother

Or 'next kinsman.'

25:13d weights

Lit. 'a stone and a stone.'

26:2a ground

The soil: so vers. 10 and 15.

26:5b Aramean

Or 'A Syrian in danger of perishing.'

26:10c land

Or 'ground,' 'soil,' as ver. 2.

26:14d uncleanness

Or 'for any unclean use.'

26:15a land

Or 'ground,' 'soil,' as ver. 2.

26:15b land

Or 'a country,' as ch. 11:12.

27:15c secretly

Or 'in a secret place.'

27:26a confirmeth

Lit. 'establisheth.'

28:4b increase

See ch 7:13.

28:10c Jehovah

Heb. 'that the name of Jehovah is called upon thee.'

28:18a increase

See ch. 7:13.

28:22b drought

According as pointed, the word is either 'drought' or 'sword.'

28:23c brass

Elsewhere translated 'bronze' or 'copper.'

28:25d into

Or 'by.'

28:27e boils

Or 'hemorrhoids.'

28:29f continually

Lit. 'all the days:' so ver. 33.

28:30g it

See ch. 20:6.

28:31a recover

Lit. 'save.'

28:32b it

Lit. 'and thy hand shall not be for a god (el),' or 'for strength.'

28:42c locust

Or 'cockchafer.'

28:49d not

Lit. 'hearest not.'

28:51e increase

As ch. 7:13.

28:58a fear

Or 'in fearing.'

29:17a idols

Or 'dung-gods,' expressive of contempt, see Lev. 26:30: Ezek. 6:4.

29:19b curse

Or 'oath,' as ver 14, and elsewhere.

29:19c drunken

Or 'the watered.'

29:22a it

Lit. 'made it sick.'

30:8b hearken

Or 'shalt again hearken.'

30:10a if

Or 'for,' or 'when.'

30:10b turn

Or 'when thou turnest.'

31:13a as

Lit. 'all the days that.'

31:17b befall

Lit. 'find.'

31:17c, 31:21c befallen

Lit. 'found.'

32:1a *

Ch. 32:1-43 is considered to be poetical in Hebrew.

32:2b speech

Imrah, 'a word,' 'speech,' see Note to Ps. 119:11. Occurs also in ch. 33:9.

32:4c work

As Isa. 45:9.

32:4d righteousness

Lit. 'what is right,' 'just;' elsewhere often 'judgment.' Heb. mishpat.

32:5e spot

Or 'blemish,' as Cant. 4:7; Dan. 1:4.

32:8f children

Or 'sons.'

32:10g about

Or 'led him about.'

32:14a lambs

Lambs fed in rich pastures: so 1Sam. 15:9.

32:15b Jeshurun

The upright people, ch. 33:5; Isa. 44:2.

32:15c +God

Heb. Eloah: first occurrence, see Note, Gen. 1:1.

32:18d forth

Ps. 90:2.

32:20e Children

Or 'sons'.

32:21f łGod

Which is Not-El.

32:22g Sheol

See Ps. 6:5.

32:36a of

Or 'shall have compassion upon.'

32:36b power

Lit. 'hand.'

32:36c left

Or 'at liberty.' The phrase seems to be a proverbial expression, in itself a paronomasia, to express forcibly 'the totality:' cf. 1Kings 14:10; 2Kings 14:26.

32:39d HE

'The Same,' 'the self-existent one.' This expression becomes virtually a name of God: see 2Sam. 7:28; 2Kings 19:15; 1Chron. 17:26; 2Chron. 20:6; Neh. 9:6, 7; Ps. 44:4; 102:27; Isa. 37:16; 41:4; 43:10, 13; 46:4; 48:12; 51:9, 10; 52:6; Jer. 5:12; 14:22; Heb. 1:12; 13:8.

32:42a captives

Lit. 'captivity.'

32:43b for

Or. 'forgiveth.' as ch. 21:8.

32:49c, 32:51c, 32:52c, 33:1c children

Or 'sons.'

33:1d *

Ch. 33:2-29 is considered to be poetical in Hebrew.

33:1e man

Heb. Ish.

33:2f sanctuary

Or 'holy myriads.'

33:2g them

Others, 'fire to guide them.'

33:3h peoples

The tribes; so in ver. 19.

33:6i few

Lit. 'of number:' i.e. that can be counted easily: see ch. 4:27.

33:8a Thummim

Perfection, or Perfections.

33:8b Urim

Light, or Lights: see Neh. 7:65.

33:8c one

'The man of thy goodness' or 'grace;' Heb. Chasid: see also Note, 2Chron. 6:42.

33:9d word

Imrah: see Note, Ps. 119:11.

33:10e ordinances

Or 'judgments,' the Hebrew word (Mishpat) having the two senses: see ver. 21 and ch. 17:9.

33:11f substance

Or 'force.'

33:14g months

Or 'moons.'

33:15h things

Lit. 'head.'

33:16i from

Or 'select amongst;' Heb. 'Nazarite.' See Gen. 49:26.

33:21k reserved

Or 'hidden,' Moses being buried in the territory of Gad.

33:21a with

Or 'to.'

33:21b Israel

Others read 'he hath practised the righteousness of Jehovah, and his judgements toward Israel.'

33:23c south

Or 'the sea and Darom.'

33:24d sons

Or 'more than sons.'

33:24e acceptable to

Others read 'favoured among.'

33:25f rest

Some read 'thine old age.'

33:29g cringing

i.e. 'render forced or feigned obedience.'

34:3h plain

See Gen. 13:10.

34:5i word

Lit. 'mouth.'