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Deuteronomy 11 Bible study: A land the LORD cares for
Moses speaks to the ones who saw, not their children (11:2, 11:7), and tells them to teach the LORD's words to the children who didn't (11:18-19). The land ahead isn't watered by foot like Egypt; it drinks the rain of the sky, "a land which the LORD your God cares for", with his eyes always on it (11:10-12). Then two ways: "a blessing and a curse" (11:26).
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“a land which the LORD your God cares for. The LORD your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.”
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“Deuteronomy 11 says the LORD's eyes are always on the land, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.”
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What's really going on
Not your children: you
Moses turns to the people in front of him: "Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God" (11:2). Then he lists what they saw: his signs "in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh" (11:3), the water of the Red Sea overflowing Egypt's army "as they pursued you" (11:4), what he did "in the wilderness until you came to this place" (11:5), and the earth that "opened its mouth and swallowed" Dathan and Abiram (11:6). It all comes to one line: "but your eyes have seen all of the LORD’s great work which he did" (11:7). Then the same people are told to teach the LORD's words to those children: "you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart" (11:18), and "You shall teach them to your children" (11:19).
Where it leads to Jesus
Hearing and doing
Deuteronomy 11:26leads toMatthew 7:24-27
Moses says, "Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the LORD your God" (11:26-28). At the end of the teaching he gave on the mountain (Matthew 5:1, 7:28), Jesus tells of two builders: "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock" (Matthew 7:24), and "Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand" (Matthew 7:26). Jesus doesn't cite Deuteronomy 11, so setting them together is a reading. One reading hears Jesus setting two ways before his hearers as Moses did, with "these words of mine" where Moses has "the commandments of the LORD your God". Another reads the two as sharing a shape found across Scripture, as in "Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death" (Jeremiah 21:8), without pointing to this chapter.
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- Watered with your foot, or by the sky
- A blessing and a curse, today
- Chapter 6, said again
- Two mountains by the oaks of Moreh
- 12 questions as you read
- 11 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
דָּרַשׁdarashsay da-RASH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "resort to, seek", and among its uses, "seek with care, care for". Strong's: "to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask". The land ahead is "a land which the LORD your God cares for" (11:12). Most often in Deuteronomy the verb is something people do: "You will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul" (4:29), and "you shall seek his habitation" (12:5). Here the LORD does it, and the object is a land.
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Deuteronomy 11 Bible study questions
- 1Moses spoke to those whose "eyes have seen" (11:7) and told them to teach their children, who hadn't (11:2, 11:19). What have you seen God do that someone younger than you hasn't yet heard from you?
- 2"The LORD your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year" (11:12). Where in your life right now do you most need to know that God's eyes are on it?
- 3"Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse" (11:26). Where this week do you face a choice between listening to God and turning aside?
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