Day 71 of the 2nd Bible Study Journey - 12 Mar 2022 reflections
Day 71, 12 Mar 2022
1) Detueronmy 6 - 9
DEUTERONOMY 6
The Greatest Commandment
1 (Dt 4:1; 5:31) Now these are the commandments, the statutes,
and the ordinances which the Lord your God commanded to
teach you, so that you may observe them in the land which
you are crossing over to possess,
2 (Ex 20:20; Ps 128:1) so that you might fear the Lord your God
in order to keep all His statutes and His commandments which
I command you-you, and your son, and your grandson-all the
days of your life, so that your days may be prolonged.
3 (Ex 3:8; Ge 15:5) Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do it,
so that it may be well with you and so that you may multiply greatly,
as the Lord the God of your fathers has promised you in the land that
flows with milk and honey.
4 (Jn 17:3; Isa 42:8) Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God. The Lord is one!
5 (Mt 22:37; Mk 12:30) And you shall love the Lord your God with all
your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
6 (Dt 11:18; 32:46) These words, which I am commanding you today,
shall be in your heart.
7 (Dt 11:19; Eph 6:4) You shall teach them diligently to your children
and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk
by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
8 (Ex 13:9; Dt 11:18) You shall bind them as a sign on your hand,
and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
9 (Dt 11:20; Isa 57:8) You shall write them on the doorposts
of your house and on your gates.
10 (Jos 24:13; Ps 105:44) Then it shall be when the Lord your God
brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and fine cities,
which you did not build,
11 and houses full of all good things which you did not fill,
and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards
and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are full,
12 then beware lest you forget the Lord who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
13 (Dt 10:20; Mt 4:10) You shall fear the Lord your God
and serve Him and shall swear by His name.
14 (Jer 25:6; Dt 8:19) You shall not go after other gods,
the gods of the people which surround you
15 (Dt 4:24; Ex 20:5) (for the Lord your God is a jealous God among you).
Otherwise the anger of the Lord your God will be inflamed against you
and destroy you from off the face of the earth.
16 (Ex 17:7; Mt 4:7) You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted
Him in Massah.
17 (Dt 11:22; Ps 119:4) You shall diligently keep the commandments
of the Lord your God, and His testimonies and His statutes which
He has commanded you.
18 (Dt 4:40; 12:25) You shall do what is right and good in the sight
of the Lord that it may be well with you and that you may go in
and possess the good land which the Lord swore to your fathers,
19 (Ex 23:28-30; Nu 33:52-53) to drive out all your enemies
before you, just as the Lord has spoken.
20 (Ex 13:14; 12:26) When your son asks you in time to come, saying,
"What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean
which the Lord our God has commanded you?"
21 (Ex 20:2) then you shall say to your son, "We were slaves of Pharaoh
in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
22 (Dt 4:34; Ps 135:9) And the Lord showed great and devastating signs
and wonders upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household
before our eyes.
23 He brought us out from there, so that He might bring us in,
to give us the land which He swore to our fathers.
24 (Ps 41:2; Jer 32:39) The Lord commanded us to do all these statutes,
to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that He might preserve
us, as He has to this day.
25 (Dt 24:13; Ro 10:3) It will be our righteousness if we are careful
to keep all these commandments before the Lord our God,
just as He has commanded us."
Deuteronomy 6
[1] Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which
the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land
whither ye go to possess it:
[2] That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and
his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's
son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
[3] Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with
thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath
promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
[4] Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
[5] And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy might.
[6] And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
[7] And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk
of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
[8] And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be
as frontlets between thine eyes.
[9] And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
[10] And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the
land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to
give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
[11] And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells
digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou
plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
[12] Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of
the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
[13] Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his
name.
[14] Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are
round about you;
[15] (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the
LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of
the earth.
[16] Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
[17] Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
[18] And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the
LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess
the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
[19] To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath
spoken.
[20] And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the
testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God
hath commanded you?
[21] Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt;
and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
[22] And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon
Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
[23] And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give
us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
[24] And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD
our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at
this day.
[25] And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these
commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
DEUTERONOMY 7
The Chosen People
1 Dt 4:38; 31:3When the Lord your God brings you into the land which
you are entering to possess and has driven out many nations before you,
the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites
and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites,
seven nations greater and mightier than you,
2 (Dt 23:14; Ex 23:32-33) and when the Lord your God delivers them
before you and you strike them down, then you must utterly destroy them.
You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.
3 (Ex 34:15-16; Jos 23:12-13) What is more, you shall not intermarry
with them. You shall not give your daughters to their sons
or take their daughters for your sons.
4 (Dt 6:15) For they will turn your sons away from following Me
to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will be inflamed
against you, and He will quickly destroy you.
5 (Ex 23:24; 34:13) But this is how you shall deal with them:
You shall destroy their altars and break down their images
and cut down their AsherimRebekah, Jacob's mother,
was an Aramean. and burn their graven images with fire.
6 (Dt 14:2; Ex 19:5-6; Jer 2:3) For you are a holy people
to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be
His special people, treasured above all peoples who are on the face
of the earth.
7 (Dt 10:22) The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose
you because you were more in number than any of the peoples,
for you were the fewest of all the peoples.
8 (Ex 32:13; Dt 10:15) But it is because the Lord loved you
and because He kept the oath which He swore to your fathers.
The Lord brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you
out of the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
9 (Da 9:4; 1Co 1:9) Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God,
the faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy with them who love
Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations,
10 (Isa 59:18; Na 1:2) yet He repays those who hate Him to their face,
to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him.
He will repay him to his face.
11 Therefore keep the commandments and the statutes
and the judgments which I command you today, by doing them.
12 (Lev 26:3-13; Dt 28:1-14) If you listen to these judgments,
keep them, and do them, then the Lord your God shall keep
with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
13 (Jn 14:21) He will love you and bless you and multiply you.
He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land,
your grain, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your herd
and the young of your flock, in the land which
He swore to your fathers to give you.
14 (Ps 127:3) You shall be blessed above all peoples.
There will not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
15 (Ex 15:26; Dt 28:27) The Lord will take away from you all sickness,
and will afflict you with none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know,
but will lay them on all those who hate you.
16 (Ex 23:33; Jdg 8:27) You must consume all the peoples whom the Lord your
God will deliver to you. Your eye shall have no pity on them, nor shall
you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
17 (Nu 33:53) If you say in your heart,
"These nations are greater than I-how can I dispossess them?"
18 (Ps 105:5; Dt 31:6) you shall not be afraid of them.
You must surely remember what the Lord your God
did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,
19 (Dt 4:34) the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs,
and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched-out arm,
by which the Lord your God brought you out. So the Lord your God
will do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
20 (Jos 24:12) Moreover the Lord your God will send the hornet among
them, until they who are left and hide themselves from you perish.
21 (Dt 10:17; Jos 3:10) You must not be frightened of them, for the Lord
your God is among you, a great and awesome God.
22 (Ex 23:29-30) The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you,
little by little. You will not be able to destroy them all at once,
lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
23 But the Lord your God will deliver them to you
and will throw them into a great confusion until they are destroyed.
24 (Jos 23:9; Dt 11:25) He will deliver their kings into your hand
so that you may erase their names from under heaven.
No man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
25 (Ex 32:20; Dt 17:1) You must burn the graven images of their gods with fire.
You must not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take any of it,
lest you be snared by them, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.
26 (Dt 13:17; Lev 27:28-29) You shall not bring an abomination
into your house, lest you become cursed like it, but you must
absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is a cursed thing.
Deuteronomy 7
[1] When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest
to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and
the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than
thou;
[2] And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt
smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them,
nor shew mercy unto them:
[3] Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not
give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
[4] For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve
other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and
destroy thee suddenly.
[5] But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and
break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven
images with fire.
[6] For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath
chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are
upon the face of the earth.
[7] The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were
more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
[8] But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which
he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty
hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh
king of Egypt.
[9] Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which
keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments
to a thousand generations;
[10] And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will
not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
[11] Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
[12] Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and
keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant
and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
[13] And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also
bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy
wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep,
in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
[14] Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or
female barren among you, or among your cattle.
[15] And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none
of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay
them upon all them that hate thee.
[16] And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall
deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou
serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
[17] If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how
can I dispossess them?
[18] Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD
thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
[19] The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the
wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD
thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people
of whom thou art afraid.
[20] Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they
that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
[21] Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among
you, a mighty God and terrible.
[22] And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little
and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the
field increase upon thee.
[23] But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy
them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
[24] And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt
destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand
before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
[25] The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not
desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou
be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
[26] Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be
a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt
utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
DEUTERONOMY 8
Remember the Lord Your God
1 (Dt 4:1; 5:32-6:3) You must carefully keep all the commandments
that I am commanding you today, so that you may live, and multiply,
and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers.
2 (Am 2:10; Ex 15:25) You must remember that the Lord your God led
you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you,
and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would
keep His commandments or not.
3 (Mt 4:4; Lk 4:4; Ex 16:2-3) He humbled you and let you suffer hunger,
and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know,
that He might make you know that man does not live by bread alone;
but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.
4 (Dt 29:5; Ne 9:21) Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did
your feet swell these forty years.
5 (2Sa 7:14; Pr 3:12) You must also consider in your heart that,
as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
6 (Dt 5:33) Therefore you must keep the commandments of the Lord your God,
to walk in His ways and to fear Him. 7For the Lord your God is bringing you
into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs that
flow out of valleys and hills,
8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates,
a land of olive oil and honey,
9 a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, in which you
will not lack anything, a land whose stones are iron, and
out of whose hills you may dig copper.
10 (Ps 103:2; Dt 6:11-12) When you have eaten and are full,
then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land
which He has given you.
11 Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping
His commandments, and His judgments, and His statutes, which I am
commanding you today.
12 (Pr 30:9; Dt 28:47) Otherwise, when you have eaten
and are full and have built and occupied good houses,
13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply,
and your silver and your gold multiply,
and all that you have multiplies,
14 (Ps 106:21; Dt 8:11) then your heart will become proud and you will
forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of slavery,
15 (Nu 20:11; 21:6) who led you through that great and terrible wilderness,
where there were fiery serpents and scorpions and drought,
where there was no water, who brought forth for you water
out of the rock of flint,
16 (Ex 16:15; Dt 8:3) who fed you in the wilderness with manna,
which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you
and that He might prove you, to do good for you in the end.
17 (Dt 9:4) Otherwise, you may say in your heart,
"My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth."
18 (Pr 10:22; Hos 2:8) But you must remember the Lord your God,
for it is He who gives you the ability to get wealth,
so that He may establish His covenant which He swore
to your fathers, as it is today.
19 (Dt 4:26) If you ever forget the Lord your God
and go after other gods and serve them and worship them,
then I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
20 (Da 9:11-12) Just like the nations which the Lord will
destroy before you, so shall you perish because you would
not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 8
[1] All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to
do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the
LORD sware unto your fathers.
[2] And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee
these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to
know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments,
or no.
[3] And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with
manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might
make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
[4] Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these
forty years.
[5] Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his
son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
[6] Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk
in his ways, and to fear him.
[7] For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of
water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
[8] A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates;
a land of oil olive, and honey;
[9] A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not
lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills
thou mayest dig brass.
[10] When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy
God for the good land which he hath given thee.
[11] Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this
day:
[12] Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses,
and dwelt therein;
[13] And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold
is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
[14] Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which
brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
[15] Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were
fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who
brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
[16] Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not,
that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at
thy latter end;
[17] And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath
gotten me this wealth.
[18] But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee
power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto
thy fathers, as it is this day.
[19] And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk
after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you
this day that ye shall surely perish.
[20] As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye
perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your
God.
DEUTERONOMY 9
Not Because of Righteousness
1 (Dt 4:38; 1:28) Hear, O Israel! You are to cross over the Jordan today,
to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities
fortified up to heaven,
2 (Nu 13:22) a great and tall people, the children of the Anakites,
whom you know and of whom you have heard it said,
"Who can stand before the children of Anak?"
3 (Dt 4:24; Jos 3:11) Understand therefore today that the Lord your God
is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He shall destroy
them and shall bring them down before you, so that you drive them out
and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has spoken to you.
4 (Dt 8:17; 12:31) Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God
has driven them out before you,
"On account of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess
this land," but it is because of the wickedness of these nations
the Lord is driving them out before you.
5 (Titus 3:5; Ge 12:7) It is not because of your righteousness
or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land,
but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God
drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which
the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 (Dt 9:13; 10:16) Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God
is not giving you this good land to possess on account of your
righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.
The Golden Calf
7 (Ex 14:11; 16:2) Remember, and do not forget how you provoked
the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that
you departed out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place,
you have been rebellious against the Lord.
8 Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord
was angry enough with you to destroy you.
9 (Ex 34:28; 24:18; 24:12) When I went up into the mountain to receive
the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made
with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
I did not eat bread or drink water.
10 (Ex 31:18; Dt 10:4) The Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone,
written with the finger of God, and on them was written all the words
which the Lord spoke to you at the mountain out of the midst of the fire
on the day of the assembly.
11 (Dt 9:9) At the end of forty days and forty nights,
the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
12 (Ex 32:7-8; Jdg 2:17) Then the Lord said to me,
"Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought
out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They are quickly turned aside
from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molded image
for themselves."
13 (Dt 9:6; 10:16) Furthermore the Lord spoke to me, saying,
"I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stubborn people.
14 (Dt 29:20; Ps 9:5) Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them
and blot out their name from under heaven,
and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they."
15 (Ex 19:18; Dt 4:11) So I returned and came down from the mount,
and the mount burned with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant
were in my two hands.
16 (Ex 32:19) I looked, and indeed, you had sinned against the Lord
your God and had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly
turned aside out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.
17 I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands
and broke them before your eyes.
18 (Ex 34:28; Dt 9:9) I fell down before the Lord, as at the first,
forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread or drink water
because of all your sins which you committed, doing what was wicked
in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.
19 (Dt 10:10; Ex 32:14) For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure
with which the Lord was wrathful against you to destroy you.
But the Lord listened to me at that time also.
20 The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him,
so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
21 (Ex 32:20) I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it
with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small until it was as small
as dust. Then I threw the dust into the brook that descended down from
the mountain.
22 (Ex 17:7; Nu 11:34) Also at Taberah and at Massah
and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.
23 (Ps 106:24-25) Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea,
saying, "Go up and possess the land which I have given you,"
then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God,
and you did not believe Him or listen to His voice.
24 (Dt 31:27) You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day
I knew you.
25 (Dt 9:18) So I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights;
I fell down because the Lord had said He would destroy you.
26 (Ex 32:11-13) I prayed therefore to the Lord, and said,
"O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance,
which You have redeemed through Your greatness, which You have brought
out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness
or their sin.
28 (Nu 14:16) Otherwise, the land from which You brought us may say,
'Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which
He promised them and because He hated them, He has brought them out
to slay them in the wilderness.'
29 (Dt 4:20; Ne 1:10) Yet they are Your people, Your inheritance,
whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your stretched-out arm."
Deuteronomy 9
[1] Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to
possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced
up to heaven,
[2] A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest,
and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
[3] Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth
over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall
bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy
them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
[4] Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast
them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath
brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations
the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
[5] Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost
thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the
LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform
the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
[6] Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good
land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
[7] Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath
in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of
Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the
LORD.
[8] Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry
with you to have destroyed you.
[9] When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even
the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the
mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
[10] And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the
finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the
LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of
the assembly.
[11] And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the
LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
[12] And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for
thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted
themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded
them; they have made them a molten image.
[13] Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people,
and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
[14] Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from
under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than
they.
[15] So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with
fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
[16] And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and
had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which
the LORD had commanded you.
[17] And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake
them before your eyes.
[18] And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty
nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins
which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him
to anger.
[19] For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD
was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that
time also.
[20] And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I
prayed for Aaron also the same time.
[21] And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with
fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small
as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of
the mount.
[22] And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked
the LORD to wrath.
[23] Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and
possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the
commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to
his voice.
[24] Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
[25] Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell
down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
[26] I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy
people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy
greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
[27] Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the
stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
[28] Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was
not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he
hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
[29] Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest
out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
2) Our Daily Bread for 12 March 2022
https://odb.org/CA/2022/03/12/love-song
entitled Love Song
Zephaniah 3:9-17
9 (Isa 19:18; Ps 22:27) For then I will restore to the peoples a pure speech
that all of them may call on the name of the Lord,
to serve Him with one accord.
10 (Ps 68:31; Isa 11:11) From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
My worshippers, the daughter of My dispersed ones,
will bring My offering.
11 (Isa 54:4; Joel 2:26-27) On that day you will not be ashamed
for all your deeds by which you have transgressed against Me;
for then I will remove from your midst
those who rejoice in your pride,
and you will no longer be haughty
in My holy mountain.
12 (Isa 14:32; Na 1:7) But I will leave in your midst
a meek and humble people,
and they will trust in the name of the Lord.
13 (Zep 2:7; Rev 14:5) The remnant of Israel will do no unrighteousness,
nor speak lies;
nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth;
for they will feed and lie down,
and no one will make them afraid.
Israel's Song of Joy
14 (Isa 12:6; 54:1) Sing, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O Israel!
Be glad and rejoice with all your heart,
O daughter of Jerusalem!
15 (Isa 51:22; Zep 3:5) The Lord has taken away your judgments,
He has cast out your enemies.
The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst;
you will see evil no more.
16 (Heb 12:12; Isa 35:3-4) On that day it will be said to Jerusalem:
Fear not, O Zion;
let not your hands be slack.
17 (Jer 32:41; Zep 3:15) The Lord your God is in your midst,
a Mighty One, who will save.
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will renew you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.
9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call
upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter
of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou
hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst
of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty
because of my holy mountain.
12 I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people,
and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies;
neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth:
for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice
with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
15 The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy:
the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee:
thou shalt not see evil any more.
16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not:
and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will
rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love,
he will joy over thee with singing.
It's a quiet riverside park on a Saturday afternoon. Joggers pass by,
fishing rods whirl, seagulls fight over fish and chip wrappers,
and my wife and I sit watching the couple. They are maybe
in their late forties and are speaking a language unknown to us.
She sits gazing into his eyes while he, without a hint of self-consciousness,
sings to her a love song in his own tongue,
carried on the breeze for us all to hear.
This delightful act got me thinking about the book of Zephaniah.
At first you might wonder why. In Zephaniah's day, God's people had become
corrupt by bowing to false gods (1:4-5), and Israel's prophets and priests
were now arrogant and profane (3:4). For much of the book,
Zephaniah declares God's coming judgment on not just Israel
but all the nations of the earth (v.
.
Yet Zephaniah foresees something else. Out of that dark day will emerge
a people who wholeheartedly love God (vv. 9-13). To these people God will
be like a bridegroom who delights in His beloved:
"In his love he will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing" (v. 17).
Creator, Father, Warrior, Judge. Scripture uses many titles for God.
But how many of us see God as a Singer with a love song for us on His lips?
By: Sheridan Voysey
Reflect & Pray
How do you normally picture God—as Creator, Father, Warrior,
or something else? How might your life change if you were
to think of God as Lover, and yourself as His beloved?
Great Singer, I delight in Your singing over me.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 1 Knowing God's Word Day 7 - The Cost of Widsom
Proverbs 4:4,7
Proverbs 4
4 (Pr 7:2; Eph 6:4) He also taught me and said to me,
"Let your heart retain my words;
keep my commandments, and live.
7 (Mt 13:44–46) Wisdom is principal; therefore get wisdom.
And with all your getting, get understanding. "
4 He taught me also, and said unto me,
Let thine heart retain my words:
Keep my commandments, and live.
7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:
And with all thy getting get understanding.
Establishing priorities is a popular topic of conversation in our
generation. We carry appointment calendars and attend goal-setting
strategy seminars. We let machines answer our telephones so that
we won't miss any important messages, or so that we can screen calls
before we answer them. We order our lives so that we can "get ahead".
"Getting ahead" in God's kingdom, however, involves other priorities
than the ones we may set for ourselves. "Wisdom is supreme," the
principal thing, says Proverbs 4:7, "Get wisdom. Though it cost
all you have, get understanding."
Wisdom is defined as "an understanding of what is true, right, or lasting."
Biblical wisdom is not merely the accumulation of facts about God and his
teaching, but the application of those truths of life, taking on
the character of God as we mature in the image of Christ.
Such wisdom may, indeed, come at great cost. Jesus calls us to "lay
down our lives" to follow him - perhaps not literally to die, but to die
to self-centered priorities, to allow the Holy Spirit to establish
his value system in us.
"Keep my commandments and you will live," Proverbs 4:4 says. Real life -
rich, fulfilling, significant, abundant life - comes only through union
with God. The success offered by the world, the acclaim of others, material
prosperity and convenience cannot satisfy us once we have tasted
the joy of life with God in Christ.
Application
a) What does "getting wisdom" means to me?
b) What practical changes can I make in my life to help me focus
my attention on the priorities and values of the Lord?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Gen 26:12-14
12 (Ge 26:3; 24:1) Then Isaac sowed in that land
and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; the Lord blessed him.
13 The man became rich and continued to prosper until he became very wealthy.
14 (Ge 37:11; Ecc 4:4) For he had possessions of flocks and herds
and a great number of servants so that the Philistines envied him.
12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year
an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
13 And the man waxed great, and went forward,
and grew until he became very great:
14 for he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds,
and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Unfailing Love
Ps 36:5-9
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens,
and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) Your righteousness is like the great mountains,
Your judgments like the great deep;
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) How excellent is Your lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore mankind seeks refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) They will drink their fill
from the abundance of Your house,
and You will cause them to drink from the river of Your pleasures.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) For with You is the fountain of life;
in Your light we see light.
5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens;
And thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains;
Thy judgments are a great deep:
O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house;
And thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
9 For with thee is the fountain of life:
In thy light shall we see light.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
9 After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Saskatchewan
Quick facts on Muslims in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan 2015 population 1125400
est Muslim Population 17279
CNMM Networks: Saskatoon
Saskatoon has seen quick growth in its Muslim population over the past
5 years, which maybe as high as 5000 today. Islamic leaders have
focused specifically on this city , having twice already sent cohorts
of about 70 families to start mosques. There are now 7 Islamic centres
of worship and an ISlamic madrassah (school) located right next to a
Christian school.
Of particular concern recently is the number of young adults who grew up
in evangelical churches and converted to Islam. Most of these are young
women whowere wooed by Muslim man and became emotionally bonded.
Both prior to and after marrying, these women are known to convert to ISlam.
Agree in prayer with us for:
- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart
and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing
Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.
- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the
spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into
converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.
- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more
to be raised up into effective witness.
- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon
to spread and grow to other cities.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
12th Day of the Month
a) Pray that the Lord will put a desire in the hearts of those in business
to follow God's principles and act honourably and ethically
(Proverb 11:1
1 A false balance is abomination to the Lord,
but a just weight is His delight.
1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD:
But a just weight is his delight.
)
b) Pray the the Spirit of the Lord will restrain the spirit of
hatred and destruction against humanity across the world.
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and pray to show to the Lord like those around you.
Pray to the Lord
"Great Singer, I delight in Your singing over me."
Pray to the Lord and pray to get wisdom from the Lord.
Pray to the Lord and pray to be humble in His site with richness.
Pray to the Lord and praise Him for His unfailing love.
Agree in prayer with us for:
- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart
and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing
Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.
- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the
spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into
converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.
- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more
to be raised up into effective witness.
- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon
to spread and grow to other cities.
Pray that the Lord will put a desire in the hearts of those in business
to follow God's principles and act honourably and ethically.
Pray the the Spirit of the Lord will restrain the spirit of
hatred and destruction against humanity across the world.
Pray for President Sadyr Japarov and others who are
serving in government in Kyrgyzstan.
1) Detueronmy 6 - 9
DEUTERONOMY 6
The Greatest Commandment
1 (Dt 4:1; 5:31) Now these are the commandments, the statutes,
and the ordinances which the Lord your God commanded to
teach you, so that you may observe them in the land which
you are crossing over to possess,
2 (Ex 20:20; Ps 128:1) so that you might fear the Lord your God
in order to keep all His statutes and His commandments which
I command you-you, and your son, and your grandson-all the
days of your life, so that your days may be prolonged.
3 (Ex 3:8; Ge 15:5) Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do it,
so that it may be well with you and so that you may multiply greatly,
as the Lord the God of your fathers has promised you in the land that
flows with milk and honey.
4 (Jn 17:3; Isa 42:8) Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God. The Lord is one!
5 (Mt 22:37; Mk 12:30) And you shall love the Lord your God with all
your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
6 (Dt 11:18; 32:46) These words, which I am commanding you today,
shall be in your heart.
7 (Dt 11:19; Eph 6:4) You shall teach them diligently to your children
and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk
by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
8 (Ex 13:9; Dt 11:18) You shall bind them as a sign on your hand,
and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
9 (Dt 11:20; Isa 57:8) You shall write them on the doorposts
of your house and on your gates.
10 (Jos 24:13; Ps 105:44) Then it shall be when the Lord your God
brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and fine cities,
which you did not build,
11 and houses full of all good things which you did not fill,
and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards
and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are full,
12 then beware lest you forget the Lord who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
13 (Dt 10:20; Mt 4:10) You shall fear the Lord your God
and serve Him and shall swear by His name.
14 (Jer 25:6; Dt 8:19) You shall not go after other gods,
the gods of the people which surround you
15 (Dt 4:24; Ex 20:5) (for the Lord your God is a jealous God among you).
Otherwise the anger of the Lord your God will be inflamed against you
and destroy you from off the face of the earth.
16 (Ex 17:7; Mt 4:7) You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted
Him in Massah.
17 (Dt 11:22; Ps 119:4) You shall diligently keep the commandments
of the Lord your God, and His testimonies and His statutes which
He has commanded you.
18 (Dt 4:40; 12:25) You shall do what is right and good in the sight
of the Lord that it may be well with you and that you may go in
and possess the good land which the Lord swore to your fathers,
19 (Ex 23:28-30; Nu 33:52-53) to drive out all your enemies
before you, just as the Lord has spoken.
20 (Ex 13:14; 12:26) When your son asks you in time to come, saying,
"What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean
which the Lord our God has commanded you?"
21 (Ex 20:2) then you shall say to your son, "We were slaves of Pharaoh
in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
22 (Dt 4:34; Ps 135:9) And the Lord showed great and devastating signs
and wonders upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household
before our eyes.
23 He brought us out from there, so that He might bring us in,
to give us the land which He swore to our fathers.
24 (Ps 41:2; Jer 32:39) The Lord commanded us to do all these statutes,
to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that He might preserve
us, as He has to this day.
25 (Dt 24:13; Ro 10:3) It will be our righteousness if we are careful
to keep all these commandments before the Lord our God,
just as He has commanded us."
Deuteronomy 6
[1] Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which
the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land
whither ye go to possess it:
[2] That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and
his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's
son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
[3] Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with
thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath
promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
[4] Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
[5] And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy might.
[6] And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
[7] And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk
of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
[8] And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be
as frontlets between thine eyes.
[9] And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
[10] And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the
land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to
give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
[11] And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells
digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou
plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
[12] Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of
the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
[13] Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his
name.
[14] Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are
round about you;
[15] (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the
LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of
the earth.
[16] Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
[17] Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
[18] And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the
LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess
the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
[19] To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath
spoken.
[20] And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the
testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God
hath commanded you?
[21] Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt;
and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
[22] And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon
Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
[23] And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give
us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
[24] And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD
our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at
this day.
[25] And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these
commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
DEUTERONOMY 7
The Chosen People
1 Dt 4:38; 31:3When the Lord your God brings you into the land which
you are entering to possess and has driven out many nations before you,
the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites
and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites,
seven nations greater and mightier than you,
2 (Dt 23:14; Ex 23:32-33) and when the Lord your God delivers them
before you and you strike them down, then you must utterly destroy them.
You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.
3 (Ex 34:15-16; Jos 23:12-13) What is more, you shall not intermarry
with them. You shall not give your daughters to their sons
or take their daughters for your sons.
4 (Dt 6:15) For they will turn your sons away from following Me
to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will be inflamed
against you, and He will quickly destroy you.
5 (Ex 23:24; 34:13) But this is how you shall deal with them:
You shall destroy their altars and break down their images
and cut down their AsherimRebekah, Jacob's mother,
was an Aramean. and burn their graven images with fire.
6 (Dt 14:2; Ex 19:5-6; Jer 2:3) For you are a holy people
to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be
His special people, treasured above all peoples who are on the face
of the earth.
7 (Dt 10:22) The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose
you because you were more in number than any of the peoples,
for you were the fewest of all the peoples.
8 (Ex 32:13; Dt 10:15) But it is because the Lord loved you
and because He kept the oath which He swore to your fathers.
The Lord brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you
out of the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
9 (Da 9:4; 1Co 1:9) Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God,
the faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy with them who love
Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations,
10 (Isa 59:18; Na 1:2) yet He repays those who hate Him to their face,
to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him.
He will repay him to his face.
11 Therefore keep the commandments and the statutes
and the judgments which I command you today, by doing them.
12 (Lev 26:3-13; Dt 28:1-14) If you listen to these judgments,
keep them, and do them, then the Lord your God shall keep
with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
13 (Jn 14:21) He will love you and bless you and multiply you.
He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land,
your grain, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your herd
and the young of your flock, in the land which
He swore to your fathers to give you.
14 (Ps 127:3) You shall be blessed above all peoples.
There will not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
15 (Ex 15:26; Dt 28:27) The Lord will take away from you all sickness,
and will afflict you with none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know,
but will lay them on all those who hate you.
16 (Ex 23:33; Jdg 8:27) You must consume all the peoples whom the Lord your
God will deliver to you. Your eye shall have no pity on them, nor shall
you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
17 (Nu 33:53) If you say in your heart,
"These nations are greater than I-how can I dispossess them?"
18 (Ps 105:5; Dt 31:6) you shall not be afraid of them.
You must surely remember what the Lord your God
did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,
19 (Dt 4:34) the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs,
and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched-out arm,
by which the Lord your God brought you out. So the Lord your God
will do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
20 (Jos 24:12) Moreover the Lord your God will send the hornet among
them, until they who are left and hide themselves from you perish.
21 (Dt 10:17; Jos 3:10) You must not be frightened of them, for the Lord
your God is among you, a great and awesome God.
22 (Ex 23:29-30) The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you,
little by little. You will not be able to destroy them all at once,
lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
23 But the Lord your God will deliver them to you
and will throw them into a great confusion until they are destroyed.
24 (Jos 23:9; Dt 11:25) He will deliver their kings into your hand
so that you may erase their names from under heaven.
No man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
25 (Ex 32:20; Dt 17:1) You must burn the graven images of their gods with fire.
You must not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take any of it,
lest you be snared by them, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.
26 (Dt 13:17; Lev 27:28-29) You shall not bring an abomination
into your house, lest you become cursed like it, but you must
absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is a cursed thing.
Deuteronomy 7
[1] When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest
to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and
the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than
thou;
[2] And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt
smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them,
nor shew mercy unto them:
[3] Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not
give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
[4] For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve
other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and
destroy thee suddenly.
[5] But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and
break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven
images with fire.
[6] For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath
chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are
upon the face of the earth.
[7] The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were
more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
[8] But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which
he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty
hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh
king of Egypt.
[9] Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which
keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments
to a thousand generations;
[10] And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will
not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
[11] Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
[12] Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and
keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant
and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
[13] And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also
bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy
wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep,
in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
[14] Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or
female barren among you, or among your cattle.
[15] And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none
of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay
them upon all them that hate thee.
[16] And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall
deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou
serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
[17] If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how
can I dispossess them?
[18] Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD
thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
[19] The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the
wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD
thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people
of whom thou art afraid.
[20] Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they
that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
[21] Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among
you, a mighty God and terrible.
[22] And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little
and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the
field increase upon thee.
[23] But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy
them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
[24] And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt
destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand
before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
[25] The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not
desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou
be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
[26] Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be
a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt
utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
DEUTERONOMY 8
Remember the Lord Your God
1 (Dt 4:1; 5:32-6:3) You must carefully keep all the commandments
that I am commanding you today, so that you may live, and multiply,
and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers.
2 (Am 2:10; Ex 15:25) You must remember that the Lord your God led
you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you,
and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would
keep His commandments or not.
3 (Mt 4:4; Lk 4:4; Ex 16:2-3) He humbled you and let you suffer hunger,
and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know,
that He might make you know that man does not live by bread alone;
but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.
4 (Dt 29:5; Ne 9:21) Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did
your feet swell these forty years.
5 (2Sa 7:14; Pr 3:12) You must also consider in your heart that,
as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
6 (Dt 5:33) Therefore you must keep the commandments of the Lord your God,
to walk in His ways and to fear Him. 7For the Lord your God is bringing you
into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs that
flow out of valleys and hills,
8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates,
a land of olive oil and honey,
9 a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, in which you
will not lack anything, a land whose stones are iron, and
out of whose hills you may dig copper.
10 (Ps 103:2; Dt 6:11-12) When you have eaten and are full,
then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land
which He has given you.
11 Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping
His commandments, and His judgments, and His statutes, which I am
commanding you today.
12 (Pr 30:9; Dt 28:47) Otherwise, when you have eaten
and are full and have built and occupied good houses,
13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply,
and your silver and your gold multiply,
and all that you have multiplies,
14 (Ps 106:21; Dt 8:11) then your heart will become proud and you will
forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of slavery,
15 (Nu 20:11; 21:6) who led you through that great and terrible wilderness,
where there were fiery serpents and scorpions and drought,
where there was no water, who brought forth for you water
out of the rock of flint,
16 (Ex 16:15; Dt 8:3) who fed you in the wilderness with manna,
which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you
and that He might prove you, to do good for you in the end.
17 (Dt 9:4) Otherwise, you may say in your heart,
"My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth."
18 (Pr 10:22; Hos 2:8) But you must remember the Lord your God,
for it is He who gives you the ability to get wealth,
so that He may establish His covenant which He swore
to your fathers, as it is today.
19 (Dt 4:26) If you ever forget the Lord your God
and go after other gods and serve them and worship them,
then I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
20 (Da 9:11-12) Just like the nations which the Lord will
destroy before you, so shall you perish because you would
not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 8
[1] All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to
do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the
LORD sware unto your fathers.
[2] And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee
these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to
know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments,
or no.
[3] And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with
manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might
make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
[4] Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these
forty years.
[5] Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his
son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
[6] Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk
in his ways, and to fear him.
[7] For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of
water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
[8] A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates;
a land of oil olive, and honey;
[9] A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not
lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills
thou mayest dig brass.
[10] When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy
God for the good land which he hath given thee.
[11] Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this
day:
[12] Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses,
and dwelt therein;
[13] And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold
is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
[14] Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which
brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
[15] Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were
fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who
brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
[16] Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not,
that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at
thy latter end;
[17] And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath
gotten me this wealth.
[18] But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee
power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto
thy fathers, as it is this day.
[19] And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk
after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you
this day that ye shall surely perish.
[20] As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye
perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your
God.
DEUTERONOMY 9
Not Because of Righteousness
1 (Dt 4:38; 1:28) Hear, O Israel! You are to cross over the Jordan today,
to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities
fortified up to heaven,
2 (Nu 13:22) a great and tall people, the children of the Anakites,
whom you know and of whom you have heard it said,
"Who can stand before the children of Anak?"
3 (Dt 4:24; Jos 3:11) Understand therefore today that the Lord your God
is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He shall destroy
them and shall bring them down before you, so that you drive them out
and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has spoken to you.
4 (Dt 8:17; 12:31) Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God
has driven them out before you,
"On account of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess
this land," but it is because of the wickedness of these nations
the Lord is driving them out before you.
5 (Titus 3:5; Ge 12:7) It is not because of your righteousness
or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land,
but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God
drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which
the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 (Dt 9:13; 10:16) Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God
is not giving you this good land to possess on account of your
righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.
The Golden Calf
7 (Ex 14:11; 16:2) Remember, and do not forget how you provoked
the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that
you departed out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place,
you have been rebellious against the Lord.
8 Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord
was angry enough with you to destroy you.
9 (Ex 34:28; 24:18; 24:12) When I went up into the mountain to receive
the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made
with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
I did not eat bread or drink water.
10 (Ex 31:18; Dt 10:4) The Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone,
written with the finger of God, and on them was written all the words
which the Lord spoke to you at the mountain out of the midst of the fire
on the day of the assembly.
11 (Dt 9:9) At the end of forty days and forty nights,
the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
12 (Ex 32:7-8; Jdg 2:17) Then the Lord said to me,
"Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought
out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They are quickly turned aside
from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molded image
for themselves."
13 (Dt 9:6; 10:16) Furthermore the Lord spoke to me, saying,
"I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stubborn people.
14 (Dt 29:20; Ps 9:5) Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them
and blot out their name from under heaven,
and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they."
15 (Ex 19:18; Dt 4:11) So I returned and came down from the mount,
and the mount burned with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant
were in my two hands.
16 (Ex 32:19) I looked, and indeed, you had sinned against the Lord
your God and had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly
turned aside out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.
17 I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands
and broke them before your eyes.
18 (Ex 34:28; Dt 9:9) I fell down before the Lord, as at the first,
forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread or drink water
because of all your sins which you committed, doing what was wicked
in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.
19 (Dt 10:10; Ex 32:14) For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure
with which the Lord was wrathful against you to destroy you.
But the Lord listened to me at that time also.
20 The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him,
so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
21 (Ex 32:20) I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it
with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small until it was as small
as dust. Then I threw the dust into the brook that descended down from
the mountain.
22 (Ex 17:7; Nu 11:34) Also at Taberah and at Massah
and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.
23 (Ps 106:24-25) Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea,
saying, "Go up and possess the land which I have given you,"
then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God,
and you did not believe Him or listen to His voice.
24 (Dt 31:27) You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day
I knew you.
25 (Dt 9:18) So I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights;
I fell down because the Lord had said He would destroy you.
26 (Ex 32:11-13) I prayed therefore to the Lord, and said,
"O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance,
which You have redeemed through Your greatness, which You have brought
out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness
or their sin.
28 (Nu 14:16) Otherwise, the land from which You brought us may say,
'Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which
He promised them and because He hated them, He has brought them out
to slay them in the wilderness.'
29 (Dt 4:20; Ne 1:10) Yet they are Your people, Your inheritance,
whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your stretched-out arm."
Deuteronomy 9
[1] Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to
possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced
up to heaven,
[2] A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest,
and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
[3] Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth
over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall
bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy
them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
[4] Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast
them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath
brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations
the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
[5] Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost
thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the
LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform
the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
[6] Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good
land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
[7] Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath
in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of
Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the
LORD.
[8] Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry
with you to have destroyed you.
[9] When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even
the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the
mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
[10] And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the
finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the
LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of
the assembly.
[11] And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the
LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
[12] And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for
thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted
themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded
them; they have made them a molten image.
[13] Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people,
and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
[14] Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from
under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than
they.
[15] So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with
fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
[16] And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and
had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which
the LORD had commanded you.
[17] And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake
them before your eyes.
[18] And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty
nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins
which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him
to anger.
[19] For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD
was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that
time also.
[20] And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I
prayed for Aaron also the same time.
[21] And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with
fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small
as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of
the mount.
[22] And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked
the LORD to wrath.
[23] Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and
possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the
commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to
his voice.
[24] Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
[25] Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell
down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
[26] I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy
people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy
greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
[27] Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the
stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
[28] Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was
not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he
hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
[29] Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest
out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
2) Our Daily Bread for 12 March 2022
https://odb.org/CA/2022/03/12/love-song
entitled Love Song
Zephaniah 3:9-17
9 (Isa 19:18; Ps 22:27) For then I will restore to the peoples a pure speech
that all of them may call on the name of the Lord,
to serve Him with one accord.
10 (Ps 68:31; Isa 11:11) From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
My worshippers, the daughter of My dispersed ones,
will bring My offering.
11 (Isa 54:4; Joel 2:26-27) On that day you will not be ashamed
for all your deeds by which you have transgressed against Me;
for then I will remove from your midst
those who rejoice in your pride,
and you will no longer be haughty
in My holy mountain.
12 (Isa 14:32; Na 1:7) But I will leave in your midst
a meek and humble people,
and they will trust in the name of the Lord.
13 (Zep 2:7; Rev 14:5) The remnant of Israel will do no unrighteousness,
nor speak lies;
nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth;
for they will feed and lie down,
and no one will make them afraid.
Israel's Song of Joy
14 (Isa 12:6; 54:1) Sing, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O Israel!
Be glad and rejoice with all your heart,
O daughter of Jerusalem!
15 (Isa 51:22; Zep 3:5) The Lord has taken away your judgments,
He has cast out your enemies.
The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst;
you will see evil no more.
16 (Heb 12:12; Isa 35:3-4) On that day it will be said to Jerusalem:
Fear not, O Zion;
let not your hands be slack.
17 (Jer 32:41; Zep 3:15) The Lord your God is in your midst,
a Mighty One, who will save.
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will renew you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.
9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call
upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter
of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou
hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst
of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty
because of my holy mountain.
12 I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people,
and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies;
neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth:
for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice
with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
15 The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy:
the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee:
thou shalt not see evil any more.
16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not:
and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will
rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love,
he will joy over thee with singing.
It's a quiet riverside park on a Saturday afternoon. Joggers pass by,
fishing rods whirl, seagulls fight over fish and chip wrappers,
and my wife and I sit watching the couple. They are maybe
in their late forties and are speaking a language unknown to us.
She sits gazing into his eyes while he, without a hint of self-consciousness,
sings to her a love song in his own tongue,
carried on the breeze for us all to hear.
This delightful act got me thinking about the book of Zephaniah.
At first you might wonder why. In Zephaniah's day, God's people had become
corrupt by bowing to false gods (1:4-5), and Israel's prophets and priests
were now arrogant and profane (3:4). For much of the book,
Zephaniah declares God's coming judgment on not just Israel
but all the nations of the earth (v.
.Yet Zephaniah foresees something else. Out of that dark day will emerge
a people who wholeheartedly love God (vv. 9-13). To these people God will
be like a bridegroom who delights in His beloved:
"In his love he will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing" (v. 17).
Creator, Father, Warrior, Judge. Scripture uses many titles for God.
But how many of us see God as a Singer with a love song for us on His lips?
By: Sheridan Voysey
Reflect & Pray
How do you normally picture God—as Creator, Father, Warrior,
or something else? How might your life change if you were
to think of God as Lover, and yourself as His beloved?
Great Singer, I delight in Your singing over me.
3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation
Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools
Week 1 Knowing God's Word Day 7 - The Cost of Widsom
Proverbs 4:4,7
Proverbs 4
4 (Pr 7:2; Eph 6:4) He also taught me and said to me,
"Let your heart retain my words;
keep my commandments, and live.
7 (Mt 13:44–46) Wisdom is principal; therefore get wisdom.
And with all your getting, get understanding. "
4 He taught me also, and said unto me,
Let thine heart retain my words:
Keep my commandments, and live.
7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:
And with all thy getting get understanding.
Establishing priorities is a popular topic of conversation in our
generation. We carry appointment calendars and attend goal-setting
strategy seminars. We let machines answer our telephones so that
we won't miss any important messages, or so that we can screen calls
before we answer them. We order our lives so that we can "get ahead".
"Getting ahead" in God's kingdom, however, involves other priorities
than the ones we may set for ourselves. "Wisdom is supreme," the
principal thing, says Proverbs 4:7, "Get wisdom. Though it cost
all you have, get understanding."
Wisdom is defined as "an understanding of what is true, right, or lasting."
Biblical wisdom is not merely the accumulation of facts about God and his
teaching, but the application of those truths of life, taking on
the character of God as we mature in the image of Christ.
Such wisdom may, indeed, come at great cost. Jesus calls us to "lay
down our lives" to follow him - perhaps not literally to die, but to die
to self-centered priorities, to allow the Holy Spirit to establish
his value system in us.
"Keep my commandments and you will live," Proverbs 4:4 says. Real life -
rich, fulfilling, significant, abundant life - comes only through union
with God. The success offered by the world, the acclaim of others, material
prosperity and convenience cannot satisfy us once we have tasted
the joy of life with God in Christ.
Application
a) What does "getting wisdom" means to me?
b) What practical changes can I make in my life to help me focus
my attention on the priorities and values of the Lord?
4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland
Gen 26:12-14
12 (Ge 26:3; 24:1) Then Isaac sowed in that land
and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; the Lord blessed him.
13 The man became rich and continued to prosper until he became very wealthy.
14 (Ge 37:11; Ecc 4:4) For he had possessions of flocks and herds
and a great number of servants so that the Philistines envied him.
12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year
an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
13 And the man waxed great, and went forward,
and grew until he became very great:
14 for he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds,
and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:
God's Unfailing Love
Ps 36:5-9
5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens,
and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) Your righteousness is like the great mountains,
Your judgments like the great deep;
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.
7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) How excellent is Your lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore mankind seeks refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) They will drink their fill
from the abundance of Your house,
and You will cause them to drink from the river of Your pleasures.
9 (Ps 38:6; 18:2) For with You is the fountain of life;
in Your light we see light.
5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens;
And thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains;
Thy judgments are a great deep:
O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house;
And thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
9 For with thee is the fountain of life:
In thy light shall we see light.
Remember God's promises when You pray
The Lord's prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
9 "Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.
12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
9 After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)
Saskatchewan
Quick facts on Muslims in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan 2015 population 1125400
est Muslim Population 17279
CNMM Networks: Saskatoon
Saskatoon has seen quick growth in its Muslim population over the past
5 years, which maybe as high as 5000 today. Islamic leaders have
focused specifically on this city , having twice already sent cohorts
of about 70 families to start mosques. There are now 7 Islamic centres
of worship and an ISlamic madrassah (school) located right next to a
Christian school.
Of particular concern recently is the number of young adults who grew up
in evangelical churches and converted to Islam. Most of these are young
women whowere wooed by Muslim man and became emotionally bonded.
Both prior to and after marrying, these women are known to convert to ISlam.
Agree in prayer with us for:
- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart
and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing
Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.
- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the
spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into
converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.
- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more
to be raised up into effective witness.
- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon
to spread and grow to other cities.
Adding further
30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020
Under the Keep Praying page
When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month
and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days
of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that
usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,
of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be
decorated and festivals will be held.
For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the
distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of
Islam.
You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",
which means Blessed Eid!"
Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you
know, and Muslims around the world:
- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions
in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about
unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such
movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three
decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim
relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.
Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,
"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 Even on My menservants and maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]
Footnotes
Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.
- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective
discipleship movements among Muslim people.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for
Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under
a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the
house."
Ideas for prayer
- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you
- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving
Christ among Muslim people -
Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."
- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims
throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!
My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further
call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity
(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .
7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada
http://www.ehc.ca
12th Day of the Month
a) Pray that the Lord will put a desire in the hearts of those in business
to follow God's principles and act honourably and ethically
(Proverb 11:1
1 A false balance is abomination to the Lord,
but a just weight is His delight.
1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD:
But a just weight is his delight.
)
b) Pray the the Spirit of the Lord will restrain the spirit of
hatred and destruction against humanity across the world.
Conclusion:
Pray to the Lord and pray to show to the Lord like those around you.
Pray to the Lord
"Great Singer, I delight in Your singing over me."
Pray to the Lord and pray to get wisdom from the Lord.
Pray to the Lord and pray to be humble in His site with richness.
Pray to the Lord and praise Him for His unfailing love.
Agree in prayer with us for:
- entire congregations and individual believers to catch God's heart
and passion for reaching Muslims in Saskatoon and the other growing
Muslim population centres of Saskatchewan.
- for the eyes and understanding of Canadian youth to be opened to the
spiritual reality of Islam, and not deceived nor manipulated into
converting to a religion which cannot offer assurance of salvation.
- for the few workers among Muslims now engaged there, and for many more
to be raised up into effective witness.
- for prayer and training events that are starting in Saskatoon
to spread and grow to other cities.
Pray that the Lord will put a desire in the hearts of those in business
to follow God's principles and act honourably and ethically.
Pray the the Spirit of the Lord will restrain the spirit of
hatred and destruction against humanity across the world.
Pray for President Sadyr Japarov and others who are
serving in government in Kyrgyzstan.