For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden. For the land that you are entering to possessCanaan was the inheritance God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Israel would receive it not by its own strength but by the Lord’s covenant faithfulness. Entry into the land marked the completion of deliverance from Egyptian slavery and called the people to live as a redeemed nation under God’s rule. Deu 1:8 See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess…
Deu 6:18 Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD,…
Deu 8:1 You must carefully follow every commandment…
is not like the land of Egypt, Egypt’s prosperity rested on the predictable waters of the Nile and on extensive human management. Canaan, with its hills and valleys, depended upon rain from heaven, directing Israel’s attention to the Lord as the giver of every harvest. Gen 13:10 And Lot looked out and saw the whole plain…
Deu 8:7-9 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land,…
Exo 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from the hand of Egyptians…
from which you have come, Israel’s history in Egypt testified both to cruel bondage and to God’s mighty redemption through the exodus. Remembering where they had come from guarded them against pride and strengthened their trust in the God who had brought them out. Exo 13:3 So Moses told the people, “Remember this day,…
Deu 4:20 Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out…
Jos 24:17 For the LORD our God brought us and our fathers out of Egypt…
where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, Egyptian farming required workers to direct water through channels and basins after the Nile’s annual flooding. Such labor contrasted with the land Israel was about to receive, where rain would come according to God’s care and where obedience to Him was closely connected to the nation’s blessing. Psa 65:9-10 You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance…
Isa 19:5-7 The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed…
Ezk 31:4 The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall,…
like a vegetable garden. A garden demanded continual human oversight to keep it watered and productive. Canaan would still require cultivation, but its fruitfulness would rest ultimately on the Lord, teaching Israel that freedom and abundance were sustained by dependence upon Him. 1Ki 21:2 So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard…
Num 11:5 We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt…
Jer 31:12 They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion…
Persons / Places / Events 1. MosesThe author of Deuteronomy, delivering God's message to the Israelites. 2. IsraelitesThe chosen people of God, who are being prepared to enter the Promised Land. 3. EgyptThe land of bondage from which the Israelites were delivered, characterized by manual labor and dependence on human effort for agriculture. 4. Promised Land (Canaan)The land God promised to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, described as a land flowing with milk and honey. 5. The ExodusThe event of God delivering the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, leading them towards the Promised Land. Teaching Points Contrast Between Human Effort and Divine ProvisionThe Israelites' experience in Egypt required human effort for sustenance, symbolizing reliance on self. In contrast, the Promised Land represents God's provision and blessing. Dependence on GodJust as the Israelites were to depend on God for the fertility of the Promised Land, believers today are called to trust in God's provision and guidance in their lives. Spiritual Growth and FruitfulnessThe transition from Egypt to the Promised Land can be seen as a metaphor for spiritual growth, moving from self-reliance to a life of faith and fruitfulness in Christ. Remembering Past DeliveranceReflecting on past deliverance from "Egypt" in our lives can strengthen our faith and trust in God's future promises. Living in the Promises of GodBelievers are encouraged to live in the reality of God's promises, embracing the abundant life He offers through faith and obedience. Bible Study Questions 1. How does the contrast between Egypt and the Promised Land in Deuteronomy 11:10 reflect our spiritual journey from self-reliance to faith in God? 2. In what ways can we apply the lesson of dependence on God from this verse to our daily lives? 3. How does the concept of divine provision in the Promised Land relate to Jesus' teaching in John 15:5 about abiding in Him? 4. What are some "Egypts" in your life that God has delivered you from, and how can remembering these strengthen your faith? 5. How can the promise of a "land flowing with milk and honey" inspire us to live out our faith in the promises of God today? Connections to Other Scriptures Genesis 12:1-3God's promise to Abraham about the land and blessings, setting the stage for the Israelites' journey. Exodus 3:7-8God's assurance to Moses about delivering the Israelites from Egypt to a good and spacious land. Numbers 13:27The report of the spies about the richness of the Promised Land, contrasting it with Egypt. Hebrews 11:8-10The faith of Abraham in looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God, paralleling the Israelites' journey to the Promised Land. John 15:5Jesus' teaching on dependence on Him, contrasting human effort with divine provision. People Abiram, Canaanites, Dathan, Eliab, Moses, Pharaoh, ReubenPlaces Arabah, Beth-baal-peor, Egypt, Euphrates River, Gilgal, Jordan River, Lebanon, Moreh, Mount Ebal, Mount Gerizim, Red SeaTopics Egypt, Enterest, Entering, Foot, Garden, Goest, Green, Hast, Herb, Herbs, Irrigated, Isn't, Planted, Possess, Possession, Seed, Seeds, Sow, Sowed, Sowedst, Sowest, Vegetable, Vegetables, Watered, Wateredst, Watering, Whence, WhitherDictionary of Bible Themes Deuteronomy 11:10 4240 garden, natural
4260 rivers and streams Deuteronomy 11:8-12 1335 blessing Deuteronomy 11:8-17 7258 promised land, early history Deuteronomy 11:10-11 4468 horticulture
4532 vegetables Deuteronomy 11:10-12 5704 inheritance, material Deuteronomy 11:10-15 4854 weather, God's sovereignty
8472 respect, for environment Library Canaan on Earth
Many of you, my dear hearers, are really come out of Egypt; but you are still wandering about in the wilderness. "We that have believed do enter into rest;" but you, though you have eaten of Jesus, have not so believed on him as to have entered into the Canaan of rest. You are the Lord's people, but you have not come into the Canaan of assured faith, confidence, and hope, where we wrestle no longer with flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus--when …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 2: 1856The God of the Rain
(Fifth Sunday after Easter.) DEUT. xi. 11, 12. The land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven. A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year, even unto the end of the year. I told you, when I spoke of the earthquakes of the Holy Land, that it seems as if God had meant specially to train that strange people the Jews, by putting them into a country where they …
Charles Kingsley—The Gospel of the Pentateuch Gilgal, in Deuteronomy 11:30 what the Place Was.
That which is said by Moses, that "Gerizim and Ebal were over-against Gilgal," Deuteronomy 11:30, is so obscure, that it is rendered into contrary significations by interpreters. Some take it in that sense, as if it were near to Gilgal: some far off from Gilgal: the Targumists read, "before Gilgal": while, as I think, they do not touch the difficulty; which lies not so much in the signification of the word Mul, as in the ambiguity of the word Gilgal. These do all seem to understand that Gilgal which …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica Josiah, a Pattern for the Ignorant.
"Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord. Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place."--2 Kings …
John Henry Newman—Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII The Blessings of Noah Upon Shem and Japheth. (Gen. Ix. 18-27. )
Ver. 20. "And Noah began and became an husbandman, and planted vineyards."--This does not imply that Noah was the first who began to till the ground, and, more especially, to cultivate the vine; for Cain, too, was a tiller of the ground, Gen. iv. 2. The sense rather is, that Noah, after the flood, again took up this calling. Moreover, the remark has not an independent import; it serves only to prepare the way for the communication of the subsequent account of Noah's drunkenness. By this remark, …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament Subjects of Study. Home Education in Israel; Female Education. Elementary Schools, Schoolmasters, and School Arrangements.
If a faithful picture of society in ancient Greece or Rome were to be presented to view, it is not easy to believe that even they who now most oppose the Bible could wish their aims success. For this, at any rate, may be asserted, without fear of gainsaying, that no other religion than that of the Bible has proved competent to control an advanced, or even an advancing, state of civilisation. Every other bound has been successively passed and submerged by the rising tide; how deep only the student …
Alfred Edersheim—Sketches of Jewish Social Life In the Fifteenth Year of Tiberius Cæsar and under the Pontificate of Annas and Caiaphas - a Voice in the Wilderness
THERE is something grand, even awful, in the almost absolute silence which lies upon the thirty years between the Birth and the first Messianic Manifestation of Jesus. In a narrative like that of the Gospels, this must have been designed; and, if so, affords presumptive evidence of the authenticity of what follows, and is intended to teach, that what had preceded concerned only the inner History of Jesus, and the preparation of the Christ. At last that solemn silence was broken by an appearance, …
Alfred Edersheim—The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah The Worship of the Synagogue
One of the most difficult questions in Jewish history is that connected with the existence of a synagogue within the Temple. That such a "synagogue" existed, and that its meeting-place was in "the hall of hewn stones," at the south-eastern angle of the court of the priest, cannot be called in question, in face of the clear testimony of contemporary witnesses. Considering that "the hall of hew stones" was also the meeting-place for the great Sanhedrim, and that not only legal decisions, but lectures …
Alfred Edersheim—Sketches of Jewish Social Life Among the People, and with the Pharisees
It would have been difficult to proceed far either in Galilee or in Judaea without coming into contact with an altogether peculiar and striking individuality, differing from all around, and which would at once arrest attention. This was the Pharisee. Courted or feared, shunned or flattered, reverently looked up to or laughed at, he was equally a power everywhere, both ecclesiastically and politically, as belonging to the most influential, the most zealous, and the most closely-connected religions …
Alfred Edersheim—Sketches of Jewish Social Life Covenanting Confers Obligation.
As it has been shown that all duty, and that alone, ought to be vowed to God in covenant, it is manifest that what is lawfully engaged to in swearing by the name of God is enjoined in the moral law, and, because of the authority of that law, ought to be performed as a duty. But it is now to be proved that what is promised to God by vow or oath, ought to be performed also because of the act of Covenanting. The performance of that exercise is commanded, and the same law which enjoins that the duties …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting The Old Testament Canon from Its Beginning to Its Close.
The first important part of the Old Testament put together as a whole was the Pentateuch, or rather, the five books of Moses and Joshua. This was preceded by smaller documents, which one or more redactors embodied in it. The earliest things committed to writing were probably the ten words proceeding from Moses himself, afterwards enlarged into the ten commandments which exist at present in two recensions (Exod. xx., Deut. v.) It is true that we have the oldest form of the decalogue from the Jehovist …
Samuel Davidson—The Canon of the Bible Deuteronomy
Owing to the comparatively loose nature of the connection between consecutive passages in the legislative section, it is difficult to present an adequate summary of the book of Deuteronomy. In the first section, i.-iv. 40, Moses, after reviewing the recent history of the people, and showing how it reveals Jehovah's love for Israel, earnestly urges upon them the duty of keeping His laws, reminding them of His spirituality and absoluteness. Then follows the appointment, iv. 41-43--here irrelevant (cf. …
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