申命记 26:19

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他又使你得稱讚、名譽和尊貴，超過他所造的列國之上，並且照著他說過的使你作聖潔的子民，歸於耶和華你的　神。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
又 使 你 得 称 赞 、 美 名 、 尊 荣 ， 超 乎 他 所 造 的 万 民 之 上 ， 并 照 他 所 应 许 的 使 你 归 耶 和 华 ─ 你 　 神 为 圣 洁 的 民 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ Today the Lord your God commands you to obey all these rules and laws; be careful to obey them with your whole being. ¹⁷ Today you have said that the Lord is your God, and you have promised to do what he wants you to do—to keep his rules, commands, and laws. You have said you will obey him. ¹⁸ And today the Lord has said that you are his very own people, as he has promised you. But you must obey his commands. ¹⁹ He will make you greater than all the other nations he made. He will give you praise, fame, and honor, and you will be a holy people to the Lord your God, as he has said.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

high above: Deuteronomy 4:7, Deuteronomy 4:8, Deuteronomy 28:1, Psalms 148:14, Isaiah 62:12, Isaiah 66:20, Isaiah 66:21, Jeremiah 13:11, Jeremiah 33:9, Ezekiel 16:12-14, Zephaniah 3:19, 1 Peter 2:5, Revelation 1:5, Revelation 1:6

an holy: Deuteronomy 7:6, Deuteronomy 28:9, Exodus 19:6, 1 Peter 2:9

Reciprocal: Leviticus 20:26 - severed Deuteronomy 14:2 - General Deuteronomy 29:13 - establish Deuteronomy 32:9 - the Lord's 1 Chronicles 17:22 - thy people Isaiah 63:18 - people Jeremiah 2:3 - holiness Ezekiel 39:13 - a renown Daniel 12:7 - the holy

Cross-References

Genesis 26:10
Abimelech said, "What have you done to us? One of our men might have had sexual relations with your wife. Then we would have been guilty of a great sin."

Genesis 26:11
So Abimelech warned everyone, "Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be put to death."

Song of Solomon 4:15
You are like a garden fountain— a well of fresh water flowing down from the mountains of Lebanon.

John 7:38
If anyone believes in me, rivers of living water will flow out from that person's heart, as the Scripture says."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To make thee high above all nations,.... None of them having the Lord to be their God and King in such sense as Israel, nor they his people in such a peculiar sense as they were; nor having such laws and statutes as he had given to them; these things gave them a superiority over all other nations:

which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; that is, which nations he made praiseworthy, famous, and honourable, for their extent, wealth, riches, and number; and yet on the above accounts Israel was advanced higher than they:

and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken; the end of the Lord in being their God, and making them his people, was not only to make them high above all others, but to make them more holy than others; to set them apart for himself, as a people sacred to his worship and service, as he had both determined and declared, Deuteronomy 7:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A brief and earnest exhortation by way of conclusion to the second and longest discourse of the book.

Deuteronomy 26:17

Thou hast avouched - literally, “made to say:” so also in the next verse. The sense is: “Thou hast given occasion to the Lord to say that He is thy God,” i. e. by promising that He shall be so. Compare Exodus 24:7; Joshua 24:14-25,

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 26:19. Make thee high above all nations — It is written, Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people, Proverbs 14:34. While Israel regarded God's word and kept his testimonies, they were the greatest and most respectable of all nations; but when they forsook God and his law, they became the most contemptible. O Britain, even more highly favoured than ancient Israel! learn wisdom by what they have suffered. It is not thy fleets nor thine armies, howsoever excellent and well appointed, that can ultimately exalt and secure thy permanence among the nations. It is righteousness alone. Become irreligious, neglect God's ordinances, profane his Sabbath, despise his word, persecute his followers, and thou art lost. But fear, love, and serve him, and thy enemies shall be found liars, thou shalt defeat their projects, and trample on their high places.

THE form of confession when bringing the first-fruits, related Deuteronomy 26:4-10, is both affecting and edifying. Even when brought into a state of affluence and rest, they were commanded to remember and publicly acknowledge their former degradation and wretchedness, that they might be ever kept humble and dependent; and they must bring their offering as a public acknowledgment to God that it was by his mercy their state was changed, and by his bounty their comforts were continued. If a man rise from poverty to affluence, and forget his former state, he becomes proud, insolent, and oppressive. If a Christian convert forget his former state, the rock whence he was hewn, and the hole of the pit whence he was digged, he soon becomes careless, unthankful, and unholy. The case of the ten lepers that were cleansed, of whom only one returned to give God thanks, is an awful lesson. How many are continually living on the bounty of God, who feel no gratitude for his mercies! Reader, Is this thy state? If so, then expect the just God to curse thy blessings.