IDuteronomi 31:11

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

11 ekuzeni kubonakala kwamaSirayeli onke phambi koYehova uThixo wakho, kuloo ndawo aya kuyinyula, wowulesa lo myalelo phambi kwamaSirayeli onke ezindlebeni zawo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to appear: Deuteronomy 16:16, Deuteronomy 16:17, Exodus 23:16, Exodus 23:17, Exodus 34:24, Psalms 84:7

in the place: Deuteronomy 12:5

shalt read: Joshua 8:34, Joshua 8:35, 2 Kings 23:2, Nehemiah 8:1-8, Nehemiah 8:13, Nehemiah 8:18, Nehemiah 9:3, Luke 4:16, Luke 4:17, Acts 13:15, Acts 15:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 24:7 - read Deuteronomy 12:11 - a place Joshua 1:8 - book 2 Kings 17:37 - wrote for you 2 Chronicles 17:9 - the book Nehemiah 8:2 - congregation Nehemiah 13:1 - they read Acts 5:14 - multitudes

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God,.... As all the males were obliged to do three times in the year, and one of those times was the feast of tabernacles, and so a proper season for the reading of the law; see Exodus 23:14;

in the place which the Lord shall choose; the city of Jerusalem, and the temple there:

thou shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing; the book of Deuteronomy, as Jarchi, or it may be the whole Pentateuch: who were to read it is not expressly said; the speech seems to be directed to the priests and elders, to whom the law written by Moses was delivered, Deuteronomy 31:9; and who were either to read it themselves, or take care that it should be read. Josephus x ascribes this service to the high priest; he says, standing in an high pulpit (or on an high bench),

"from whence he may be heard, he must read the laws to all;''

but the Jewish writers commonly allot this work to the king, or supreme governor, who at least was to read some parts of it; so Jarchi says, the king at first read Deuteronomy, as it is said in the Misnah y;

"he read from the beginning of Deuteronomy to Deuteronomy 6:4; hear, O Israel, c. and then added Deuteronomy 11:13 then Deuteronomy 14:22; after that Deuteronomy 26:12; then the section of the king, Deuteronomy 17:14; next the blessings and the curses, Deuteronomy 27:15, with which he finished the whole section;''

and so we find that Joshua, the governor of the people after Moses, read all his laws, Joshua 8:35; and so did King Josiah at the finding of the book of the law, 2 Kings 23:2, and Ezra, Nehemiah 8:3. The king received the book from the high priest standing, and read it sitting; but King Agrippa stood and read, for which he was praised.

x Antiqu. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 12. y Sotah, ut supra. (c. 7. sect. 8.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the marginal references. It is not to be supposed that the whole of the Pentateuch was read, nor does the letter of the command require that it should be so. This reading could not be primarily designed for the information and instruction of the people, since it only took place once in seven years; but was evidently a symbolic transaction, intended, as were so many others, to impress on the people the conditions on which they held possession of their privileges and blessings.