Deuteronomy

Question 1

Theme of Deuteronomy

Answer 1

Second Law / Renewed Covenant

Question 2

Deuteronomy Description

Answer 2

Reiteration of the covenant and review of their history to the nation of Israel (cf. 1:5)

Question 3

Outline (Detailed)

Answer 3

I. The First Discourse — Past/What God has done (1–4)
II. The Second Discourse —Present/What God expects (5–26)
III. The Third Discourse — Future/What God will do (27–30)
IV. The Historical Appendix — Transition of the Covenant Mediator (31-34)

Question 4

Outline (Simple)

Answer 4

I. Looking Back (1–11)
II. Looking Ahead (12–32)
III. Looking Up (33–34)

Question 5

Chapter 5

Answer 5

Decalogue reiterated

Question 6

Chapter 6

Answer 6

Shema — “Hear, O Israel”

Question 7

Chapter 10

Answer 7

Command to circumcise the heart

10:16 “So circumcise your heart, and stiffen your neck no longer.”

Question 8

Chapter 18

Answer 8

Against witchcraft, promise of a coming prophet

Question 9

Chapter 28

Answer 9

Blessings and Cursings

Question 10

Chapter 29

Answer 10

Renewal of the covenant with Israel

Question 11

Chapter 30

Answer 11

God promises to circumcise the heart

30:6 “Moreover Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.”

Question 12

Chapter 32

Answer 12

Song of Moses

Question 13

Chapter 34

Answer 13

Death of Moses

Question 14

Deuteronomy 4:2

Answer 14

“You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I am commanding you.”

Question 15

Deuteronomy 13:1–5

Answer 15

“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us walk after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you to find out if you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul. “You shall walk after Yahweh your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him. “But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death because he has counseled rebellion against Yahweh your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to drive you from the way in which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from among you.”

Question 16

Deuteronomy 21:18–21

Answer 16

“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they discipline him, he will not even listen to them, then his father and mother shall seize him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown. “Then they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not listen to our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ “Then all the men of his city shall stone him, and he will die; so you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear of it and fear.”

Question 17

Deuteronomy 22:28–29

Answer 17

“If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.”

Question 18

Deuteronomy 24:1–4

Answer 18

“If a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, and she goes out of his house and goes and becomes another man’s wife, and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife, then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before Yahweh, and you shall not bring sin on the land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance.”

Question 19

Deuteronomy 29:29

Answer 19

“The secret things belong to Yahweh our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”

Question 20

Deuteronomy 32:39

Answer 20

‘See now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me; It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded, and it is I who heal, And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.”