Deuteronomy 32:45

. Deuteronomy 32:44 Ver. 44. And Moses came,.... To the people, as the Greek version, the heads of the people being gathered together according to his order, Deuteronomy 31:28; The Targum of Jonathan says, he came from the tabernacle, the house of instruction: and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people; which is observed both before and after the reading of it, to show the certainty of it, and how punctually and faithfully he had delivered it: he, and Hoshea the son of Nun; the same with Joshua, whose name at first was Hoshea, Numbers 13:16, probably Joshua read the song to one part of the people, while Moses read it to the other. Deuteronomy 32:45 Ver. 45. And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel. Finished all he had to say to them from the Lord, whether by way of precept, moral, civil, and ceremonial or in the form of a song. Deuteronomy 32:46 Ver. 46. And he said unto them,....

32:44-47 Here is the solemn delivery of this song to Israel, with a charge to mind all the good words Moses had said unto them. It is not a trifle, but a matter of life and death: mind it, and you are made for ever; neglect it, and you are for ever undone. Oh that men were fully persuaded that religion is their life, even the life of their souls!

44-47. Moses … spake all the words of this song in the ears, &c.—It has been beautifully styled "the Song of the Dying Swan" [Lowth]. It was designed to be a national anthem, which it should be the duty and care of magistrates to make well known by frequent repetition, to animate the people to right sentiments towards a steadfast adherence to His service.

45 . made an end , etc.] Deuteronomy 20:9 , Deuteronomy 26:12 , Deuteronomy 31:24 . Whether all these words originally referred only to the Code, or are meant by the editor to cover the hortatory addresses added to it, cannot be determined. All Israel , D’s formula. 45–47. A Postscript Moses again exhorts all Israel to attend to the Law and enforce it on their children, for it is their life, by which they shall prolong their days in the Land. Both the ideas and the language are deuteronomic, and the passage belongs to one of the hortatory supplements to the Law. Most connect it with Deuteronomy 31:24-27 . Berth.’s proposal to read Shirah, Song , for Torah , Law, in Deuteronomy 32:46 (see on Deuteronomy 31:24 ) and to refer all the vv . to the Song, is contradicted by the phraseology, which is elsewhere consistently used of the Law. Deuteronomy 32:45

In Deuteronomy 32:44-47 it is stated that Moses, with Joshua, spake the song to the people; and on finishing this rehearsal, once more impressed upon the hearts of the people the importance of observing all the commandments of God. This account proceeds from the author of the supplement to the Thorah of Moses, who inserted the song in the book of the law. This explains the name Hoshea, instead of Jehoshuah (Joshua), which Moses had given to his servant ( Numbers 13:8 , Numbers 13:16 ), and invariably uses (compare Deuteronomy 31:3 , Deuteronomy 31:7 , Deuteronomy 31:14 , Deuteronomy 31:23 , with Deuteronomy 1:38 ; Deuteronomy 3:21 , Deuteronomy 3:28 , and the exposition of Numbers 13:16 ). - On Deuteronomy 32:46 , vid., Deuteronomy 6:7 and Deuteronomy 11:19 ; and on Deuteronomy 32:47 , vid., Deuteronomy 30:20 .

Announcement of the Discourse upon the Law. - First of all, in Deuteronomy 4:44 , we have the general notice in the form of a heading: "This is the Thorah which Moses set before the children of Israel;" and then, in Deuteronomy 4:45 , Deuteronomy 4:46 , a fuller description of the Thorah according to its leading features, "testimonies, statutes, and rights" (see at Deuteronomy 4:1 ), together with a notice of the place and time at which Moses delivered this address. "On their coming out of Egypt," i.e., not "after they had come out," but during the march, before they had reached the goal of their journeyings, viz., ( Deuteronomy 4:46 ) when they were still on the other side of the Jordan. "In the valley," as in Deuteronomy 3:29 . "In the land of Sihon," and therefore already upon ground which the Lord had given them for a possession. The importance of this possession as the first-fruit and pledge of the fulfilment of the further promises of God, led Moses to mention again, though briefly, the defeat of the two kings of the Amorites, together with the conquest of their land, just as he had done before in Deuteronomy 2:32-36 and Deuteronomy 3:1-17 . On Deuteronomy 4:48 , cf. Deuteronomy 3:9 , Deuteronomy 3:12-17 . Sion, for Hermon (see at Deuteronomy 3:9 ).

[Bible] 31:24. Therefore after Moses had wrote the words of this law in a volume, and finished it: 31:25. He commanded the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying: 31:26. Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God: that it may be there for a testimony against thee. 31:27. For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While I am yet living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious against the Lord: how much more when I shall be dead? 31:28. Gather unto me all the ancients of your tribes, and your doctors, and I will speak these words in their hearing, and will call heaven and earth to witness against them. 31:29. For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will quickly turn aside form the way that I have commanded you: and evils shall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands. 31:30. Moses therefore spoke, in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel, the words of this canticle, and finished it even to the end. Deuteronomy Chapter 32 A canticle for the remembrance of the law. Moses is commanded to go up into a mountain, from whence he shall see the promised land but not enter into it. 32:1. Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth. 32:2. Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass. 32:3. Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God. 32:4. The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right. 32:5. They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation. 32:6. Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?