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God's Law as Public Foundation
Commentators explain that writing the law on large, plastered stones was a powerful public declaration. This act established God's commands as the foundational constitution for the new nation. As Charles Ellicott notes, Israel's very right to possess the land was conditional upon their public commitment to upholding the Law of Jehovah as the law of the land.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 27:3
18th Century
Theologian
All the words of this law - that is, all the laws revealed from God to the people by Moses, regarded by the Jews as 613 (compare Numbers 15:…
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 27:1–4
19th Century
Bishop
Moses with the elders. —Here they are joined in exhortation for the first time in this book.
Keep. —Literal…
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 27:3
17th Century
Pastor
And you shall write upon them all the words of this law
Not the whole book of Deuteronomy, as some think, at least n…
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Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 27:1–10
17th Century
Minister
As soon as they had come into Canaan, they were to set up a monument, on which they were to write the words of this law. They were to set up an alt…