gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
made
כָּרַ֥תka.Rat
H3772
to cut (off · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
covenant
בְּרִ֖יתbe.Rit
H1285
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of fl… · noun, common feminine singular absolute
Horeb
בְּחֹרֵֽבbe.cho.Rev
H2722
Choreb · preposition + proper noun, a place name
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 4:23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the lik…
Exodus 19:5-8 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all…
Exodus 24:8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you conc…
Hebrews 8:6-13 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon bet…
Hebrews 9:19-23 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and sc…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 5:1-5
Here, 1. Moses summons the assembly. He called all Israel; not only the elders, but, it is likely, as many of the people as could come within hearing, Deu 5:1. The greatest of them were not above God's command, nor the meanest of them below his cognizance; but they were all bound to do. 2. He demands attention: "Hear, O Israel; hear and heed, hear and remember, hear, that you may learn, and keep, and do; else your hearing is to no purpose." When we hear the word of God we must set ourselves to learn it, that we may have it ready to us upon all occasions, and what we have learned we must put in practice, for that is the end of hearing and learning; not to fill our heads with notions, or our m…
The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Which is Sinai, as Aben Ezra observes; it being the same mountain, only it had two tops, which bore these different names; for certain it is that the decalogue after repeated was given at Sinai, and had the nature and form of a covenant; see Exodus 24:7.
John Calvin on Deuteronomy 5:1-7
Deuteronomy 5:1-6
1. And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep and do them.
1. Vocavitque Moses universum Israelem, et dixit eis, Audi Israel statuta et judicia, quae ego hodie loquor in auribus vestris, ut discatis ea et custodiatis ad praestandum.
2. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
2. Jehova Deus noster percussit nobiscum foedus in Horeb.
3. The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
3. Non cum patribus nostris percussit Deus foedus hoc, sed nobiscum, qui ipsi hodie omnes vivimus…
Deu 5:1-5 form the introduction, and point out the importance and great significance of the exposition which follows. Hence, instead of the simple sentence "And Moses said," we have the more formal statement "And Moses called all Israel, and said to them." The great significance of the laws and rights about to be set before them, consisted in the fact that they contained the covenant of Jehovah with Israel.
Deu 5:2-3
"Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb; not with our fathers, but with ourselves, who are all of us here alive this day." The "fathers" are neither those who died in the wilderness, as Augustine supposed, nor the forefathers in Egypt, as Calvin imagined; but the patri…
The Church Fathers
What do these words mean? The Lord your God has concluded an alliance with you in Horeb. The Lord did not conclude this covenant with your parents, but with you, with you who are all here alive. Face to face did the Lord speak to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire? Is it that those who do not enter the promised land -for all died- do not belong to this alliance, whose recognition was then made when they were counted from twenty years old up to fifty years old as people capable of war? (Cf Nm 1,20) And how Did the Lord speak to those who live today? Perhaps because those from twenty years down, who could well remember this, could be many then, free from that punishment that God established for those who were counted then, telling them that they would not enter the promised land and says this to those who even though they were not twenty years old or up, when God spoke to them on the mountain, in order to be counted then, however, they could have been from nineteen years old down to childhood, so that they could see, hear and retain in memory the things that were done and said? But what do these words mean: Face to face the Lord spoke to you, who says to those who a short time before he tried to admonish them seriously, warning them that they had not seen any image, but had only heard a voice coming from the midst of the fire? perhaps of those words for the evidence of things and for the presence in some way of the manifestation of divinity, of which no one could doubt? And if this is so, what problem is there in understanding this very thing about Moses, when about him it is said that the Lord spoke with him face to face, (Cf Ex 33,11) so that even he would not see with his eyes out of the fire? Or is it necessary to think that he saw something else, since it is said that he entered the fog or the cloud where God was? (Cf Ex 24,18) But even if he had seen something other than what they saw, it can not be deduced that he would have seen the substance of God with his mortal eyes, of the words he addressed to God, saying: If I have found grace before you, show yourself to me, so that I may see you clearly. For the rest, we should not think that this people, to whom Moses spoke, would have seen God face to face, when he spoke on the mountain from the midst of the fire, as the Apostle says that we will see him in the hereafter, with these words: Now…
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Horeb · A range of mountains of which Mount Sinai is the most prominent — A range of mountains of which Mount Sinai is the most prominent
Law Of Moses, The · Given: At Horeb — Given: At Horeb
Obedience · ENJOINED — ENJOINED
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
This section contains the heart of the covenant document, the stipulations. The first subdivision (5:1–11:32) sets forth the major stipulations relating especially to the first two commandments (5:7-10). The more specific minor stipulations make up the rest of the section.
5:1-32 The rest of the covenant laws expand and comment upon the Ten Commandments (5:6-21), on which they are based. Moses had first given the Ten Commandments to the people of Israel nearly forty years earlier (Exod 20:2-17).
5:1 decrees and regulations: These technical terms describe the stipulations that Israel must obey as the junior partner in the covenant.
