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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comTreasury Of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 4:3 - 4:3
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what the: Num 25:1-9, Num 31:16; Jos 22:17; Psa 106:28-29; Hos 9:10
for all the men: It appears from this appeal, that the pestilence, as well as the sword of the magistrates, singled out the guilty persons and spared the rest (Psa 91:6-8). The legislator, in order to deter the Jews from idolatry, alludes to this fact, but he notices no circumstance but one, which, though in the original narrative was not stated, was infinitely the most important to advert to on this occasion; but which no persons, but spectators of the fact, and perfectly acquainted with every individual concerned in it, could possibly feel the truth of. Num 26:64