Deuteronomio 31:19

Filipino Cebuano Bible

19 Busa karon isulat ninyo kini nga alawiton alang kaninyo, ug itudlo mo sa mga anak sa Israel: ibutang mo kini sa ilang mga baba, aron kini nga alawiton mahimong saksi nako batok sa mga anak sa Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

this song: Deuteronomy 31:22, Deuteronomy 31:30, Deuteronomy 32:1-43, Deuteronomy 32:44, Deuteronomy 32:45

and teach it: Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 4:10, Deuteronomy 6:7, Deuteronomy 11:19

put it in their: Exodus 4:15, 2 Samuel 14:3, Isaiah 51:16, Isaiah 59:21, Jeremiah 1:9

a witness: Deuteronomy 31:21, Deuteronomy 31:26, Ezekiel 2:5, Matthew 10:18, John 12:48

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:44 - a witness Numbers 5:23 - write these Numbers 17:10 - for a token Joshua 24:27 - General Esther 9:20 - wrote these Psalms 50:7 - testify Psalms 102:18 - This Psalms 111:4 - He hath Isaiah 5:1 - Now Isaiah 30:8 - write Isaiah 44:21 - Remember Jeremiah 22:29 - General Jeremiah 30:2 - General Daniel 2:28 - in the Habakkuk 2:2 - Write 2 Peter 1:15 - I will Revelation 1:11 - What

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now, therefore, write ye this song for you,.... Which was now dictated by the Lord, and given to Moses and Joshua to write, which is recorded in Deuteronomy 32:1:

and teach it the children of Israel; teach them by it, instructing them in the meaning of it: thus it was usual in ancient times to write things in verses, that they might be the more pleasingly attended to and regarded, and be longer retained in memory; and especially this practice was used with children, and still is:

put it in their mouths; oblige them to get it by heart, or lay it up in their memories, and repeat it frequently, that it may be familiar to them, and not be forgotten by them:

that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel; when in times to come they shall call to mind how in this song they were cautioned against such and such sins, and what they were threatened with should befall them on account of them, and how all things have come to pass exactly as foretold in it; which would be a testimony for God of his goodness to them, of his tender care of them, and concern for them, in the previous cautions he gave them; and of his foreknowledge of future events; and a testimony against them for their ingratitude and other sins.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The transaction recorded in these verses may be regarded as the solemn inauguration of Joshua to the office to which he had some time before Numbers 27:22 been called, and his recognition in it by God, which were manifested by his being summoned into the tabernacle with Moses while the Lord appeared in the pillar of cloud (compare Numbers 11:25; Numbers 12:5).

Deuteronomy 31:16

The future apostasy of the people is announced in the presence of Joshua that the latter might be fully aware of the danger and strive in his day to avert it. This he faithfully did (compare Joshua 24:31); but we find him in his own last address to Israel repeating Joshua 23:15-16 the self-same prediction and warning.

Deuteronomy 31:19

A witness for me against them - i. e., an attestation from their own mouths at once of God’s benefits, their own duties, and their deserts when they should fall away. Being in verse it would be the more easily learned and kept in memory. The use of songs for such didactic purposes was not unknown to the legislators of antiquity. Compare also the advice of Paul, “teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” Colossians 3:16.

Deuteronomy 31:23

He gave - i. e., the Lord gave.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 31:19. Write ye this song — The song which follows in the next chapter. Things which were of great importance and of common concern were, among the ancients, put into verse, as this was found the best method of keeping them in remembrance, especially in those times when writing was little practised. Even prose was sometimes sung. The history of Herodotus was divided into NINE books, and each inscribed with the name of one of the NINE Muses, because these books were anciently sung. Homer is reported to have sung his poems through different Greek cities. Aristotle observes that anciently the people sung their laws. And Cicero observes that it was a custom among the ancient Romans to sing the praises of their heroes at the public festivals. This was the case among the northern inhabitants of Europe, particularly in Ireland and Scotland; hence the Gaelic poetry of Ossian and others. See Dodd; and Exodus 15:1; Exodus 15:1, where the subject is largely treated.