# Deuteronomy 11 đź“–: Love and Obey the Lord
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> [!info] Table of Contents
> [[#đź“ś Scripture Text (NET)]]
> [[#đź“– Verse-by-Verse Commentary]]
> [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]]
> [[#🧠Chapter Summary]]
> [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]]
> [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]]
> [[#đź’¬ Discussion Questions]]
> [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]]
> [[#đź”— Related Passages/Cross Reference]]
> [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]]
> [[#đź“‚ Internal Notes]]
## đź“ś Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### Reiteration of the Call to Obedience
[[#Verse 01.]] You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.Â
[[#Verse 02.]] Bear in mind today that I am not speaking to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments of the Lord your God, which revealed his greatness, strength, and power.Â
[[#Verse 03.]] They did not see the awesome deeds he performed in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land,Â
[[#Verse 04.]] or what he did to the army of Egypt, including their horses and chariots, when he made the waters of the Red Sea overwhelm them while they were pursuing you and he annihilated them.Â
[[#Verse 05.]]Â They did not see what he did to you in the wilderness before you reached this place,Â
[[#Verse 06.]] or what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp and swallowed them, their families, their tents, and all the property they brought with them.
[[#Verse 07.]] I am speaking to you because you are the ones who saw with your own eyes all the great deeds of the Lord.
### The Abundance of the Land of Promise
[[#Verse 08.]] Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed,Â
[[#Verse 09.]] and that you may enjoy long life in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.Â
[[#Verse 10.]] For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.Â
[[#Verse 11.]] Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,
[[#Verse 12.]] a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.Â
[[#Verse 13.]] Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being,
[[#Verse 14.]] then he promises, “I will send rain for your land in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.Â
[[#Verse 15.]] I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”
### Exhortation to Instruction and Obedience
[[#Verse 16.]]Â Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!
[[#Verse 17.]] Then the anger of the Lord will erupt against you, and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the Lord is about to give you.Â
[[#Verse 18.]] Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, tie them as a reminder on your hands, and let them be symbols on your forehead.Â
[[#Verse 19.]] Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.
[[#Verse 20.]]Â Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gatesÂ
[[#Verse 21.]] so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land that the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.Â
[[#Verse 22.]] For if you carefully observe all of these commandments I am giving you and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards, and remain loyal to him,Â
[[#Verse 23.]] then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.Â
[[#Verse 24.]] Every place you set your foot will be yours; your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the River (that is, the Euphrates) as far as the Mediterranean Sea.
[[#Verse 25.]] Nobody will be able to resist you; the Lord your God will spread the fear and terror of you over the whole land on which you walk, just as he promised you.
### Anticipation of a Blessing and Cursing Ceremony
[[#Verse 26.]] Take note—I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:Â
[[#Verse 27.]] the blessing if you take to heart the commandments of the Lord your God that I am giving you today,Â
[[#Verse 28.]] and the curse if you pay no attention to his commandments and turn from the way I am setting before you today to pursue other gods you have not known.Â
[[#Verse 29.]] When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are to possess, you must pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.Â
[[#Verse 30.]] Are they not across the Jordan River, toward the west, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the rift valley opposite Gilgal near the oak of Moreh?Â
[[#Verse 31.]] For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.Â
[[#Verse 32.]]Â Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.
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## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights
1. Watering "with your foot" (11:10) likely refers to opening irrigation channels by foot, a common method in Egypt.
2. The early rains came in the fall and the late rains in the spring (11:14). James 5:7 uses this same picture.
3. Israel's agriculture depended on rainfall, which made them depend on the Lord (11:11-12).
4. Dathan and Abiram were swallowed by the earth after rebelling against Moses (11:6; Numbers 16).
5. Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal stand on either side of Shechem (11:29).
6. Joshua later carried out the blessing and curse ceremony at these two mountains (Joshua 8:30-35).
7. The "oak of Moreh" (11:30) is the place where God appeared to Abraham when he first entered Canaan (Genesis 12:6-7).
8. The promise that every place their foot treads will be theirs (11:24) is repeated to Joshua (Joshua 1:3).
9. The boundaries in 11:24 run from the wilderness to Lebanon and from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean Sea.
10. Mount Gerizim later became the holy mountain of the Samaritans (John 4:20).
## 🧠Chapter Summary
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## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter
Christ is the One who bore the curse so we could receive the blessing set before Israel (11:26-28). He became a curse for us so the blessing of Abraham could come to the nations (Galatians 3:13-14).
## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application
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## đź’¬ Discussion Questions
1. Egypt was watered by human effort, but the promised land drank rain from heaven (11:10-11). How does that picture dependence on God?
2. God told His people to fix His words on their hearts and minds (11:18). What practices help you do that?
3. Moses sets a blessing and a curse before the people (11:26-28). How do our daily choices reflect that kind of decision?
## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember
- đź“– verse 12: The eyes of the Lord are always on the land He cares for.
- đź“– verses 18-19: Fix God's words on your heart and teach them to your children.
- đź“– verses 26-28: A blessing for obedience and a curse for disobedience are set before Israel.
## đź”— Related Passages/Cross Reference
- đź”— [[Joshua 08#Verse 30.|Joshua 8:30-35]] - The blessings and curses read at Ebal and Gerizim.
- đź”— [[Galatians 03#Verse 13.|Galatians 3:13-14]] - Christ redeemed us from the curse.
- đź”— [[John 04#Verse 20.|John 4:20-24]] - True worship in spirit and truth.
- đź”— [[James 05#Verse 07.|James 5:7]] - Wait for the early and late rains.
- đź”— [[Joshua 01#Verse 03.|Joshua 1:3]] - Every place your foot treads.
## 🙏 Devotional Reflection
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## đź“‚ Internal Notes