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DEUTERONOMY – LESSON SEVEN
I. MOSES’ SECOND ADDRESS – EXHORTATIONS OF THE LAW (24:1-
A. Contingency law concerning divorce and remarriage (24:1-
B. New husbands free from army service and charge of any business for a year (24:5-
C. Mill or upper millstones off limits as pledges (24:6)
D. Death penalty for kidnapping and slave trade among brethren (24:7)
E. Exhortation to heed the priests regarding leprosy (24:8-
F. Law regarding lender approaching house of neighbor and taking pledges of the poor (24:10-
G. Proper treatment of poor hired servant – prompt payment of wages (24:14-
H. Fathers – Sons put to death for own sin, not the sin of father or son (24:16)
I. Proper treatment of sojourner, fatherless and widow – justice given (24:17-
J. Produce left behind at harvest to be left for the sojourner, fatherless and widow (24:19-
K. In matters of controversy, judges are to justify righteous and condemn wicked – stripes not to exceed forty (25:1-
L. Ox not to be muzzled when treading out the grain (25:4)
M. Levirate law – man taking dead brother’s wife to produce a son to keep dead brother’s name alive – the actions of the widow when brother refused (25:5-
N. Contingency law regarding two men fighting – wife of one man must not touch the private parts of the other man (25:11-
O. Demand for just weights and measurements (25:13-
P. Continue to remember the actions of Amalek (25:17-
Q. Law regarding the bringing forth the first fruits and the third year tithes (26:1-
R. Moses’ summation of his second address regarding the law and God’s people – God is their God and they in holiness are His people (26:16-
1. For what reason or reasons could a husband divorce his wife?
2. What must a husband do when he divorce his wife?
3. What could the former husband not do after the divorce?
4 Is God in this law justifying divorce?
5. What is God saying about marriage in the law regarding the new husband?
6. Why was part of a mill not to be taken as a pledge?
7. Under the Law of Moses, kidnapping was equivalent to __________________ and punishable by _____________________
8. Why were the people to remember Miriam when told to follow he directions of the priest regarding leprosy?
9. Why must a lender not go into the house of the borrower when determining the pledge?
10. A poor man’s garment could not be taken for a pledge (T) (F)
11. What action is considered “oppressing” a hired servant and “a sin?”
12. If children are not to be put to death for the sin of their father, why were the sons of Achan put to
death when he sinned (Joshua 7:24)?
13 What actions should not be taken and those taken in remembering that Israel was a bondman in Egypt?
14. What should justice look like in Israel?
15. The principle of Deuteronomy 25:4 is applied in the New Testament in what way?
16. How does the Levirate law illustrate the power of personal shame being a deterrent?
17. How important to God and His people were “just” weights and measurements?
18 How could Israel not forget, but remember Amalek while also fulfilling the commandment to “blot out the remembrance of Amalek?”
19. What did the remarks of each worshipper reveal as to why they brought the basket of “first fruits” before the priest and the altar?
20. Who was “the Syrian” father to Israel who “was ready to perish?”
21. For what was the tithe in the third year to be used?
22. Was this a “second tithe” during the year?
23. Why does one offering the tithe of the third year remembering before God the specific requirements regarding the dead
(cf. 26:14)?
24. From Moses’ conclusion of his second address, what do you learn…
(a). regarding how one should keep the law of God?
(b). as to what is involved when one makes Jehovah his God?
(c). regarding how God views His people?
DEUTERONOMY – LESSON EIGHT
I. MOSES’ THIRD ADDRESS AND REEMPHASIS OF THE LAW (27:1-
A. Instructions concerning emphasizing the law when first in the “promised land” (27:1-
1. Set up stones on Mt. Ebal with plaster to write the law upon (v. 1-
2. Set up altar on Mt. Ebal to offer burnt offerings and peace offerings (v. 5-
B. Reverence for the law as blessings and curses are uttered from Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Ebal (27:9-
C. Specific blessings and curses uttered as consequences of heeding or disobeying the Law (28:1-
D. The covenant expressing God’s sovereignty emphasized in Moab (29:1-
E. Conditional promises connected with the commandments (30:1-
QUESTIONS:
1. What was to be written on stones when God’s people crossed over the Jordan into the “promised land?”
2. Why was plaster to be applied to the stones?
3. Why was an altar to be constructed with unhewn stones?
4 Why were the people to be silent, and hearken?
5. Describe the scene of the blessings and curses from Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Ebal:
6. Of the first eleven curses from the Law, what do they have in common?
7. What is the last curse demanding of God’s people?
8. How would God’s people hear the voice of God or know of His ways?
9. What is a blessing according to God: to lend to nations or the ability to borrow from nations?
10. How intrusive would be the curse if God’s people did not heed the commandments of God?
11. Serving God with joy and gladness would be forfeited for what darkness if the people of God do not keep God’s commandments?
12. What would the people do if they truly fear God’s name?
13 What irony would take place in the lives of a disobedient Israel who had been freed from Egypt?
14. In Chapter 29, what two words connect with God’s covenant helping us to know the makeup of a covenant?
15. What great purpose was God striving for in constantly delivering and providing for God’s people in their deliverance from Egypt and wanderings in wilderness?
16. With whom was God was making His covenant even though not with God’s people at this time?
17. Looking at a sick land, why would foreigners ask, “Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land?
18 How important should the things God has revealed in His Word be to us?
19. What blessing should God’s people remember when they experience the curse of captivity?
20. What are the conditions of this blessing?
21. How does Jehovah take away any excuse of not knowing His commandments?
22. How can we choose life?