Deuteronomy 10:15
in Deuteronomy 10Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
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ASV
Only Jehovah had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
KJV
Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 10
Commentary
7 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Moses here resumes his address, and having made a passing allusion to the principal events in their history, concludes by exhorting them to fear the Lord and serve Him faithfully.
This site's exposition
to the LORD your God belong the heavens
on Deuteronomy 10:14-15
Verse 14 hands God everything, "the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth", and Solomon uses the same phrase at 1 Kings 8:27 to say heaven cannot contain Him. Verse 15 narrows that to one family for one reason, that the LORD "set His affection on your fathers and loved them". Deuteronomy 7:7 adds that they were the smallest of peoples, so merit is kept out twice.
This site's exposition
their descendants after them
The verse carries the love given to the fathers down to their descendants after them, even to this day, so the choice made in Abraham still stands over the generation in Moab. Matthew Henry sets verses 14 and 15 side by side: heaven and earth are God's, and yet his portion is his people. He finds the ground of the choice only in what seemed good in God's eyes.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them,....
"He had a delight in thy fathers, and therefore chose their seed." Not that there was any thing in them to merit his favour, or to recommend them to it, but so it seemed good in his eyes.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
HE WHO PREACHES the whole truth as it is in Jesus will labor under continual disadvantages; albeit, that the grand advantage of having the presence and blessing of God will more than compensate the greatest loss. It has been my earnest endeavor ever since I have preached the Word, never to keep back a single doctrine which I believe to be taught of God. It is time that we had done with the old and rusty systems that have so long curbed the freeness of religious speech. The Arminian trembles to go an inch beyond Arminius or Wesley, and many a Calvinist refers to John Gill or John Calvin, as any ultimate authority. It is time that the systems were broken up, and that there was sufficient grace in all our hearts to believe everything taught in God’s Word, whether it was taught by either of these men or not. I have frequently found when I have preached what is called high doctrine, because I found it in my text, that some people have been offended; they could not enjoy it, could not endure it, and went away. They were generally people who were best gone; I have never regretted their absence. On the other hand, when I have taken for my text some sweet invitation, and have preached the freeness of Christ’s love to man; when I have warned sinners that they are responsible while they hear the gospel, and that if they reject Christ their blood will be upon their own heads, I find another class of doubtless excellent individuals who cannot see how these two things agree. And therefore, they also turn aside, and wade into the deceptive miry bogs of Antinomianism. I can only say with regard to them, that I had rather also that they should go to their own sort, than that they should remain with my congregation. We seek to hold the truth. We know no difference between high doctrine and low doctrine. If God teaches it, it is enough.
HE WHO PREACHES the whole truth as it is in Jesus will labor under continual disadvantages; albeit, that the grand advantage of having the presence and blessing of God will more than compensate the greatest loss. It has been my earnest endeavor ever since I have preached the Word, never to keep back a single doctrine which I believe to be taught of God. It is time that we had done with the old and rusty systems that have so long curbed the freeness of religious speech.
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| רַ֧ק | rak | only | H7535 → | 109 times |
| בַּאֲבֹתֶ֛יךָ | baavoteikha | <in> ancestors your | H1 → | 1212 times |
| חָשַׁ֥ק | chashak | he loved | H2836 → | 11 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| לְאַהֲבָ֣ה | leahavah | to love | H157 → | 211 times |
| אוֹתָ֑ם | ʾotam | <obj.> them | H853 → | 10935 times |
| וַיִּבְחַ֞ר | vaiyivchar | and he chose | H977 → | 171 times |
| בְּזַרְעָ֣ם | bezaram | <in> offspring their | H2233 → | 229 times |
| אַחֲרֵיהֶ֗ם | ʾachareihem | after them | H310 → | 715 times |
| בָּכֶ֛ם | bakhem | <in> <the> you | ||
| מִכָּל־ | mikol | from all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הָעַמִּ֖ים | haamim | the peoples | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| כַּיּ֥וֹם | kaiyom | as the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַזֶּה׃ | hazeh | <the> this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
רַ֧קonly
rakH7535 →109 times
בַּאֲבֹתֶ֛יךָ<in> ancestors your
baavoteikhaH1 →1212 times
חָשַׁ֥קhe loved
chashakH2836 →11 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
לְאַהֲבָ֣הto love
leahavahH157 →211 times
אוֹתָ֑ם<obj.> them
ʾotamH853 →10935 times
וַיִּבְחַ֞רand he chose
vaiyivcharH977 →171 times
בְּזַרְעָ֣ם<in> offspring their
bezaramH2233 →229 times
אַחֲרֵיהֶ֗םafter them
ʾachareihemH310 →715 times
בָּכֶ֛ם<in> <the> you
bakhem
מִכָּל־from all
mikolH3605 →5413 times
הָעַמִּ֖יםthe peoples
haamimH5971 →1873 times
כַּיּ֥וֹםas the day
kaiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַזֶּה׃<the> this
hazehH2088 →1180 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Numbers 14:8If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 22:20
He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
- Isaiah 62:4
No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will…
- Numbers 13:27
And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
- Psalms 147:10–11
He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legpower of the man.
- Romans 8:31
What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- 2 Samuel 22:20
Through
Deuteronomy 4:37Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
it leads to
- Exodus 33:14
And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
- Isaiah 63:11–12
Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His…
- Exodus 13:3
So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His…
- Exodus 33:14
Where this verse is studied
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Charles Spurgeon, The New Park Street Pulpit, Sermon No. 303: “Election and Holiness” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.