Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8
Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument.
The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do.
Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point.
Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8