Nor let his men be few.”
“Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah,
And bring him to his people;
bLet his hands be sufficient for him,
And may You be ca help against his enemies.”
b“Let Your1 Thummim and Your Urim be with Your holy one,
cWhom You tested at Massah,
And with whom You contended at the waters of Meribah,
‘I have not bseen them’;
cNor did he acknowledge his brothers,
Or know his own children;
For dthey have observed Your word
And kept Your covenant.
And Israel Your law.
They shall put incense before You,
bAnd a whole burnt sacrifice on Your altar.
And aaccept the work of his hands;
Strike the loins of those who rise against him,
And of those who hate him, that they rise not again.”
Deuteronomy
DEUTERONOMY, the second law, a title which plainly shows what is the object of this book, namely, a recapitulation of the law. It was given in the form of public addresses to the people; and as Moses spoke in the prospect of his speedy removal, he enforced obedience to it by many forcible appeals to the Israelites, concerning their long and varied experience both of the mercies and the judgments of God. The minute notices of the heathen people with whom they had come in contact, but who afterward disappeared from the pages of history, as well as the accounts of the fertility and products of Canaan, and the counsels respecting the conquest of that country, fix the date of this book and the time of its composition by the hand of Moses. The close, however, must have been added by another; and, indeed, it is supposed by some to have formed the original preface to the Book of Joshua.
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