for the best things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills,
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for the best things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills,
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And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
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And for the tops of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the everlasting hills,
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 33:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Habakkuk 3:6 He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
- Genesis 49:26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.
- James 5:7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 33:15 And for the chief things of the…
Deu 33:15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
Ver. 15. And for the chief things.] Metals and minerals usually dug out of mountains, which are here called ancient and lasting, because they have been from the beginning, and were not first cast up, as some have held, by Noah’s flood. {Psa 90:2}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. The excellent fruits, as grapes, olives, figs, &c.,…
i.e. The excellent fruits, as grapes, olives, figs, &c., which delight in mountains, growing upon, or the precious minerals contained in, their mountains and hills, called ancient and lasting, i.e. such as have been from the beginning of the world, and likely to continue to the end of it, in opposition to those hills or mounts which have been cast up by the wit of man.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And for the precious things of the earth, and…
And for the precious things of the earth, and fulness thereof,.... Corn of all sorts produced out of the earth, and grass that grows out of it, and cattle that feed upon it; for all which some part of the land of Joseph, particularly Bashan, was famous; as for the oaks that grew on it, so for the pasturage of it, and the cattle it bred, Deu 32:14; see Psa 22:12,
and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush; the angel of the Lord, the Word and Son of God, who appeared to Moses in the bush, and made himself known as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and expressed his good will to Israel, by sending Moses to deliver them out of their bondage: and the favour and good will of the same divine Person is here wished for, and which has appeared in his assumption of human nature, obedience, sufferings, and death, Luk 2:14. The bush was an emblem of Israel, and the state they were then in, and of the church of Christ; of which See Gill on Exo 3:2; and where Christ may be said to dwell, as he did among men, when he was made flesh, and does dwell in the midst of his churches, and in the hearts of his people by faith:
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let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph; that is, in all things, as Onkelos; or all these blessings, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; all before mentioned, let them come openly and visibly, and in great plenty, upon the posterity of Joseph, who was a type of Christ, the head of the righteous, on whom all the blessings of grace are, and from whom they descend to all his spiritual offspring, Pro 10:6,
and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren; when he was sold by them into Egypt; the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem are,"and was shining in the glory of his brethren;''that is, when he was a ruler in Egypt, and had honour from his brethren there, and was beautiful and glorious among them, as a Nazarite, as the word here used signifies, see Lam 4:7; and may he applied to Christ, who was chosen from among the people, and separated from sinners, and called a Nazarene, Psa 89:19.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The chief things - That is, the excellent fruits,…
The chief things - That is, the excellent fruits, as grapes, olives, figs, &c. which delight in mountains, growing upon, or the precious minerals contained in, their mountains and hills called ancient and lasting, that is, such as have been from the beginning of the world, and are likely to continue to the end of it, in opposition to those hills or mounts which have been cast up by man.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 15. The chief things of the ancient mountains]…
Verse 15. The chief things of the ancient mountains] ומראש הררי קדם umerosh harerey kedem, and from the head or top of the ancient or eastern mountains, the precious things or productions being still understood. And this probably refers to the large trees, &c., growing on the mountain tops, and the springs of water issuing from them. The mountains of Gilead may be here intended, as they fell to the half tribe of Manasseh. And the precious things of the lasting hills may signify the metals and minerals which might be digged out of them.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Everlasting hills. Chaldean, "which never fail" to produce an…
Everlasting hills. Chaldean, "which never fail" to produce an abundant crop. (Haydock) --- The hills of the Israelites were very productive. But when they rebelled against their God, in very deed the hills were liars, and yielded little or nothing, Jeremias iii. 23.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. deliver] i.e. under arrest; cp. Jos_20:5 (deut.), 1Sa_23:11…
15. deliver] i.e. under arrest; cp. Jos_20:5 (deut.), 1Sa_23:11 f.
a servant] slave or bondman, as elsewhere, e.g. Deu_5:14.
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15. chief things] Heb. rôsh (collect.) tops or rather headlands, see on Deu_3:27 and small print under Deu_12:2. Some conjecture reshîth the best (fruit) of the hills. Cp. Deu_32:13 increase of the mountains.
15, 16 (16, 17). Of a Runaway Slave. If such escape to thee—apparently Israel as a whole (cp. Deu_5:16), and therefore the slave, though not necessarily a Hebrew slave1[145] (Marti), is one who has escaped from a foreign master—thou shalt not send him back, he shall dwell with thee, where he chooses and unoppressed.—Peculiar to D. That slaves sometimes fled abroad is seen from the flight of Shimei’s to Achish of Gath, who gave them back, apparently as a matter of course (1Ki_2:39). If this was the usual practice D’s law marks a humane advance upon it. For slaves who flee from native owners no Hebrew laws are extant. On slavery see further on Deu_15:12 ff.
[145] Had this been so it would have been stated as in Deu_15:12.
Ḫammurabi decrees that he who induces a slave to flee or harbours the runaway shall die (§§ 15 f., 19) and that runaways shall be restored (§§ 18, 20), the reward for each being two silver shekels (§ 17). The slaves of Arabs seldom run away. If one is harshly treated and escapes, he is sheltered by another man of the tribe till his owner promises to treat him better (Musil, Ethn. Ber. 225).
15–25 (16–26). Five Laws—Various
The subjects of these are not related. As to form, all are in the Sg. address (Steuern.’s reasons for dividing them between his Sg. and Pl. authors are again inconclusive); and the first three (Deu_33:15-20) have negative openings similar to those of the group in Deu_33:1-8 (from which they are abruptly separated by Deu_33:9-14). In D or D’s source they may have originally followed that group, in the feeling that as all three treat of relations with foreigners or foreign practices they had affinity with it. Steuern. thinks that Deu_33:15 f. fit Deu_22:8 in the code of his Sg. author. In addition to the negative openings there are possibly some cue-words. Escaped in Deu_33:15 is the same Heb. vb (but passive) as deliver in Deu_33:14; and vow in Deu_33:18 is soon followed by vows in Deu_33:21-23.
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