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Deuteronomy: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Thousands camped east of the Jordan, ready to cross it, eradicate a decadent culture and establish their own nation. Their remarkable leader Moses, soon to die, stood and spoke to them. The book of Deuteronomy records these speeches. Commentator J. A. Thompson believes we cannot fail to be challenged by the persistent demands throughout the book that we acknowledge the complete and sole...

that God’s law is not a burden to be borne, but God’s gracious provision for Israel’s good (13). To live well means to obey God’s law, and to obey presupposes a reverent love for him who gave the law (cf. 11:1–25). 14, 15. Why should Israel respond to Yahweh her God with such complete allegiance? The depths are plumbed in the answer that follows. It was not merely because of his saving acts or because Israel’s good was bound up with such obedience. The real reason was more profound. Israel was to
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