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Ulangan 30:15

Ingatlah, aku menghadapkan kepadamu pada hari ini kehidupan dan keberuntungan, kematian dan kecelakaan,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Contingencies;   Duty;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Call, Divine;   Decision;   Divine;   God;   Invitations, Divine;   Invitations-Warnings;   Moral Agents, Free;   The Topic Concordance - Blessings;   Choosing/chosen;   Disobedience;   Idolatry;   Life;   Love;   Obedience;   Perishing;   Service;   Turning;   Worship;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Life;   Providence;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Condemnation;   Life;   Spirituality;   Will;   Worship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Life;   Word;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Death;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Life;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Didache;   Didascalia;   God;   Judaism;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 5;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ingatlah, aku menghadapkan kepadamu pada hari ini kehidupan dan keberuntungan, kematian dan kecelakaan,
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwa sesungguhnya pada hari ini aku menghadapkan kepadamu hidup dan kebajikan, atau mati dan kejahatan.

Contextual Overview

15 Beholde I haue set before thee this day, lyfe and good, death and euyll: 16 For where as I commaunde thee this day, to loue the Lorde thy God, to walke in his wayes, and to kepe his commaundementes, his ordinaunces, and his lawes, [yf thou so do] thou shalt lyue and multiplie, and the Lorde thy God shall blesse thee in the lande whyther thou goest to possesse it. 17 But and yf thine heart turne away, so that thou wylt not heare, but shalt go astray and worship straunge gods, and serue them: 18 I pronounce vnto you also this day, that ye shall surely perishe, and that ye shall not prolong your dayes vpon the lande whyther thou passest ouer Iordane to go and possesse it. 19 I call heauen and earth to recorde this day agaynst you, that I haue set before you, lyfe and death, blessyng and cursyng: Therfore choose lyfe, that both thou and thy seede may lyue: 20 That thou mayest loue the Lord thy God, and be obedient to his voyce, and cleaue vnto hym: For he is thy life, & the length of thy dayes, that thou mayest dwell vpon the earth, which the Lord sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Isahac, and Iacob, to geue them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 30:1, Deuteronomy 30:19, Deuteronomy 11:26, Deuteronomy 28:1-14, Deuteronomy 32:47, Mark 16:16, John 3:16, Galatians 3:13, Galatians 3:14, Galatians 5:6, 1 John 3:23, 1 John 5:11, 1 John 5:12

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:34 - blessings 2 Chronicles 33:8 - so that they Jeremiah 21:8 - I set Ezekiel 18:31 - for why

Cross-References

Genesis 30:9
When Lea sawe that she had left bearyng chyldren she toke Zilpha her mayde, and gaue her Iacob to wyfe.
Genesis 30:10
And Zilpha Leas mayde bare Iacob a sonne.
Numbers 16:13
Is it a small thyng, that thou hast brought vs out of the land that floweth with mylke and honie, to kyll vs in the wildernesse: except thou make thy selfe lorde and ruler ouer vs also?
Isaiah 7:13
The prophete aunswered, Then heare ye of the house of Dauid: Is it not inough for you that ye be greeuous vnto me, but ye must greeue my God also?
Ezekiel 16:47
Yet hast thou not walked after their wayes, nor done after their abhominations, as a litle and a litle: but in all thy wayes thou hast ben more corrupt then they.
1 Corinthians 4:3
With me it is but a very small thyng that I shoulde be iudged of you, either of mans iudgement: No, I iudge not mine owne selfe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See, I have set before thee this day,.... Moses here returns to press the Israelites to the present observance of the laws, statutes, and judgments of one sort and another, he had been delivering to them; as being of great moment and importance to them, no other than

life and good, and death and evil; which are the effects and consequences of obedience and disobedience to them; a happy temporal life, and a continuance of it in the good land of Canaan, and an enjoyment of the blessings and good things thereof to them that are obedient; for not spiritual and eternal life, or spiritual blessings and everlasting happiness, are to be had by man's obedience to the law of works, only through Christ, through his obedience, righteousness, sufferings, and death; see Galatians 3:21; so temporal death, or a cutting short of natural life in the promised land, and evil things, calamities, and distresses, or a deprivation of all the good things of it to the disobedient; see Isaiah 1:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ignorance of the requirements of the law cannot be pleaded Deuteronomy 30:10-14; hence, Deuteronomy 30:15-20 life and death, good and evil, are solemnly set before the people for their own choice; and an earnest exhortation to choose the better part concludes the address.

Deuteronomy 30:11-14. “The righteousness which is of faith” is really and truly described in these words of the Law; and, under Paul’s guidance (see marginal references) we affirm was intended so to be. For the simplicity and accessibility which Moses here attributes to the Law of God neither is nor can be experimentally found in it except through the medium of faith; even though outwardly and in the letter that Law be written out for us so “that he may run that readeth,” and be set forth in its duties and its sanctions as plainly as it was before the Jews by Moses. The seeming ease of the commandment, and yet its real impossibility to the natural man, form part of the qualifications of the Law to be our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ.

Deuteronomy 30:11

Not hidden from thee - Rather, not too hard for thee, as in Deuteronomy 17:8.

Neither is it far off - Compare Luke 17:21.

Deuteronomy 30:13

The paraphrase of this verse in the Jerusalem Targum is noteworthy, and should be compared with Paul’s rendering in Romans 10:7 : “Neither is the law beyond the great sea, that thou shouldest say, Oh that we had one like Jonah the prophet who could descend into the depths of the sea and bring it to us!”

Deuteronomy 30:14

In thy mouth, and in, thy heart - Compare Deuteronomy 6:6; Deuteronomy 11:18-20.

Deuteronomy 30:20

That thou mayest love the Lord - Compare Deuteronomy 6:5. Love stands first as the essential and only source of obedience.

He is thy life - Or, “that” (i. e., “to love the Lord”) “is thy life;” i. e., the condition of thy life and of its prolongation in the promised land. Compare Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 32:47.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 30:15. Life and good — Present and future blessings.

Death and evil — Present and future miseries: termed, Deuteronomy 30:19, Life and death, blessing and cursing. And why were these set before them?

1. That they might comprehend their import.

2. That they might feel their importance.

3. That they might choose life, and the path of believing, loving obedience, that led to it.

4. That they and their posterity, thus choosing life and refusing evil, might be the favourites of God in time and eternity.

Were there no such thing as free will in man, who could reconcile these sayings either with sincerity or common sense? God has made the human will free, and there is no power or influence either in heaven, earth, or hell, except the power of God, that can deprive it of its free volitions; of its power to will and nill, to choose and refuse, to act or not act or force it to sin against God. Hence man is accountable for his actions, because they are his; were he necessitated by fate, or sovereign constraint, they could not be his. Hence he is rewardable, hence he is punishable. God, in his creation, willed that the human creature should be free, and he formed his soul accordingly; and the Law and Gospel, the promise and precept, the denunciation of wo and the doctrine of eternal life, are all constructed on this ground; that is, they all necessarily suppose the freedom of the human will: nor could it be will if it were not free, because the principle of freedom or liberty is necessarily implied in the idea of volition. See on the fifth chapter and 29th verse. Deuteronomy 30:19- :


 
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