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Deuteronomy 10
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==Deuteronomy 10:1:
At that time the Lord said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ark of wood
==Deuteronomy 10:2:
And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put them in the ark.’
==Deuteronomy 10:6:
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(Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his stead.
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He finally promised a new covenant between them and God – one by which He “will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live” (Deuteronomy 30:6). Jeremiah likewise spoke of heart circumcision (Jeremiah 4:4) as did the apostle Paul (Romans 2:28-29), who taught that circumcision cannot save; rather, Jesus Christ creates a new person (Galatians 6:15). -Michael F Chandler
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==Deuteronomy 10:11:
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’
==Deuteronomy 10:12:
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“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
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The “fear of the LORD” means giving God your Unparalleled Allegiance.
Deuteronomy exhorts its listeners to have a total commitment to God, involving “all your heart and soul.” Fearing God leads to loyalty and obedience. It gives us a resolve to stay the course because what we know about God to be true. God gets our allegiance, more than our allegiance to any person, country, job, or whatever. In all, obedience to Him takes precedence over everything else. Who can be more important to obey than the God of the universe? Often times the problem we have is that we give our earthly fears so much more weight than they deserve. We give more weight to the bigness of our circumstances than we do to the bigness of our God. Whether motivated by panic, or something else, we end up making decisions that go against the greater wisdom of loyalty to God, despite how things look on the surface. As the well-known Christian artist, Lecrae, says: “We fear circumstances so much because we fear God so little.” – Lecrae Perhaps if we developed a more holistic, healthy fear of God, maybe the anxieties we have today would not carry so much weight. -Newbreak Church |
August 21, 2025: Shammai Engelmayer wrote: Our ancestors were either fleeing the deadly pogroms in Russian and later Soviet territories, or they were fleeing Nazi Germany’s death machine. Those fleeing the Nazis tragically had to overcome the enormous effort the “land of the free” made to keep them within Adolf Hitler’s reach. To understand how enormous that effort was, I suggest reading the late Arthur Morse’s deeply disturbing 1968 book, “While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy.” In it, he details all that the U.S. government, and especially the State Department, did to build a bureaucratic “border wall” designed to keep out Jews fleeing the Shoah. We Jews should know better than anyone else the heavy price to be paid by shutting the doors to people fleeing persecution in search of a better life. This, however, was not something either participant in that conversation raised. |
And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee,
For all these favours bestowed upon them, the forgiveness of their sins, and a fresh intimation of their possession of the land of Canaan, and the renewal of the promise of it made to their fathers:
but to fear the Lord thy God;
to fear him with a filial fear, to fear him and his goodness, and him for his goodness sake, and particularly for his pardoning grace and mercy vouchsafed to them; see ( Psalms 130:4 ) ,
to walk in all his ways;
prescribed and directed to by him, every path of duty, whether moral, ceremonial, or judicial:
and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul;
for that is the best service which springs from love, and love constrains unto, and which is hearty and sincere, as that is, and is performed in the best manner such are capable of.
For all these favours bestowed upon them, the forgiveness of their sins, and a fresh intimation of their possession of the land of Canaan, and the renewal of the promise of it made to their fathers:
but to fear the Lord thy God;
to fear him with a filial fear, to fear him and his goodness, and him for his goodness sake, and particularly for his pardoning grace and mercy vouchsafed to them; see ( Psalms 130:4 ) ,
to walk in all his ways;
prescribed and directed to by him, every path of duty, whether moral, ceremonial, or judicial:
and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul;
for that is the best service which springs from love, and love constrains unto, and which is hearty and sincere, as that is, and is performed in the best manner such are capable of.
==Deuteronomy 10:18:
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He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
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As thousands of Ukrainian women and children arrived at Berlin’s railway station fleeing war, they were met with a surprise—German families holding handmade signs offering refuge in their homes. “Can host two people!” one sign read. “Big room [available],” read another. Asked why she offered such hospitality to strangers, one woman said her mother had needed refuge while fleeing the Nazis, and she wanted to help others in such need. In Deuteronomy, God calls the Israelites to care for those far from their homelands. Why? Because He’s the defender of the fatherless, the widow, and the foreigner (10:18), and because the Israelites knew what such vulnerability felt like: “for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt” (v. 19). Empathy was to motivate their care. --Sheridan Voysey
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July 1, 2025: Kelly Hill wrote: In recent months, debates around American policies towards immigrants and refugees have become increasingly divisive. With so many voices and opinions, it can be hard to cut through the noise. But as Christians, we have a powerful tool to do just that — the Bible. When it comes to discerning God’s heart, and how we can best align with it, we turn to Scripture. While you won’t find the words “refugee” or “immigrant” in many Bible translations, Scripture has much to say about “the foreigner,” “the sojourner” and “the stranger.” In the NIV translation, the word “foreigner” alone is mentioned over 140 times! |
==Deuteronomy 10:22:
Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.