Day 69-11

V From the Exodus to the Crossing into Canaan - 1462-1422 B.C. ~ cont.

(1462 - 982 480 years of 1 Kings 6:1)

D. From Kadesh-Barnea to crossing of Jordan ~ cont.

5. Settling down in plains of Moab, east of Jordan ~ cont.

l. Review of Jewish law and history ~ cont

(7) Warnings, admonitions, exhortations - Deuteronomy 8:1-20; 9:1-29; 10:1-22

{pages 302-306}

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.  (Deuteronomy 9:18)

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.  (Deuteronomy 9:25)

These passages captured my attention first, because he (Moses) is falling down before the Lord; and secondly, for 40 days and 40 nights (40 = trials, probation, testings).  Prostrate before the Lord, interceding for the people.  Encouragement to diligently be in prayer for the family of faith.  Or (laugh) my tribe.

fell down - H5307 - A primitive root; to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitively or causatively, literally or figuratively).

Used 434 times in 403 verses.  The first usage is in Genesis 2:21:

And the Lord God, caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

Last one - Zechariah 11:2 - Howl fir tree, for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl , O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

Obviously way too many verses for me to review them all.  Curiosity, had me scrolling through to see if all the books in the OT were represented.  All but 3.  Liked this one as well:

Then said she, sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest until he have finished the thing this day.  (Ruth 3:18)

Father always provides for HIS own.  Which seemed an appropriate verse coupled with the one above.

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.  (Deuteronomy 10:18)

Sharing Gill's commentary:

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow,.... Who have none to help them, and whose patron and defender he is, and will do them justice himself, and take care that it is done them by others, or avenge their injuries, for he is a Father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widow, in his holy habitation; Psa_68:5.

and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment; one that is in a foreign country, at a distance from his native land, and destitute of friends; such God in his providence takes care of, and expresses his love and kindness to, by giving them the necessaries of life, food, and raiment.

And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,  (Deuteronomy 10:12)

Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.  (Deuteronomy 10:20)

fear ~ fear

walk ~ serve

love ~ cleave

serve ~ swear

fear - H3372 - A primitive root; to fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten.

walk - H1980 - Akin to H3212; a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively).

• H3212 - A primitive root (compare H1980); to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively to carry (in various senses).

love - A primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise).

serve - H5647 - A primitive root; to work (in any sense); by implication to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.

cleave - H1692 - A primitive root; properly to impinge, that is, cling or adhere; figuratively to catch by pursuit.

swear - H7650 - A primitive root; properly to be complete, but used only as a denominative from H7651; to seven oneself, that is, swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times).

Those two verses made me think of the passage in Mark that I posted the other day.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.  (Mark 12:30)

love - G25 - Perhaps from ἄγαν agan (much; or compare [H5689]); to love (in a social or moral sense).

heart - G2588 - Prolonged from a primary κάρ kar (Latin cor, “heart”); the heart, that is, (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle.

soul - G5590 - From G5594; breath, that is, (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from G4151, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from G2222, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew [H5315], [H7307] and [H2416].

mind - G1271 - From G1223 and G3563; deep thought, properly the faculty (mind or its disposition), by implication its exercise.

strength - G2479 - From a derivative of ἱς his (force; compare ἔσχον eschon; a form of G2192); forcefulness (literally or figuratively).

The totality of my being is to be focused upon the Lord, loving and serving Him, confident of HIS provision for every season, situation and/or circumstance of my life.