prayer list published on 27 apr 11 announcements published on 27 apr 11
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DeuteronomyWeek Date Topic
1 09 Mar 11 Chapter 1:1-2:23 – Introduction and Moses’ Address
2 16 Mar 11 Chapter 2:24-4:43 - Conquest, Transition, Covenant
3 23 Mar 11 Chapter 4:44-6:25 – The Law
4 30 Mar 11 Chapter 7:1-11:32 – Application of the Principles
5 06 Apr 11 Chapter 12:1-14:21 – First Three Commandments
6 13 Apr 11 Chapter 14:22-18:22 – 4th and 5th Commandments
7 20 Apr 11 Chapter 19:1-23:14 – 6th and 7th Commandments
8 27 Apr 11 Chapter 23:15-25:19– 8th thru 10th Commandments
9 04 May 11 Chapter 26:1-27:26 – Covenant law and preparation
10 11 May 11 Senior Blessing – No classes
11 18 May 11 Chapter 28:1-68 – Blessings and Curses
12 25 May 11 Chapter 29:1-30:20 – Moses’ Final Address
13 01 Jun 11 Chapter 31:1-34:12 – Moses’ Final Actions
Key Points for Today’s Lesson• Review last week’s class found in Chapter 19-23• Review various laws found in Deuteronomy 23-25
– Slaves– Vows– Providing for the poor– Treatment of others– Charging interest– Various laws within families
• Learn about laws of Marriage and Divorce
Last Week• Reviewed more laws related to the 6th and
7th commandments
• Learned about application of the laws of manslaughter and witnesses
• Reviewed what the Bible says about war
• Reviewed laws about unsolved murders
• Learned about limits placed on a husband and father’s authority
• Reviewed illustrations of principles concerning adultery
• Israel to provide Asylum foreign escaped slaves (vs. 15-16)– Referring to slaves from a foreign land
• Sacred prostitution banned (vs. 17-18)– Common among pagan religions of the Canaanites– In the reign of Asa and Josiah, the perverted persons
are expelled from Israel (1 Ki 15:12; 2 Ki 23:7)– Money received from temple prostitutes was given to
the temple priests
• Charge no interest to a fellow Israelite (vs. 19-20)– Could charge interest to a foreigner
Miscellaneous Laws (23:15-20)
• Importance of keeping vows (vs. 21-23)– God commands that Israel should be careful and keep
its vows and fulfill every oath made– Are vows or oaths permitted today?
• Read what Matthew 5:34-37 said and also James 5:12• To God but not to man?
• Right to gather limited amounts from a neighbor’s field or vineyard (vs. 24-25)– A traveler could pick a few grapes or heads of grain
Miscellaneous Laws (23:21-25)
• Law of divorce in ancient Israel (vs. 1)– Divorce was allowed in Israel, but regulated– Grant a certificate of divorce; legal recognition– For uncleaness; in Jesus time, Rabbis even considered a
bad meal as a good reason– Jesus defined it in Matt 19:9, sexual immorality
• Law of remarriage in ancient Israel (vs. 2-4)– A divorced woman who marries again cannot return to
her husband
• Law of honoring marriage (vs. 5)– Man who takes a new wife, no war for a year
Divorce, Remarriage, and Marriage (24:1-5)
• Do not take someone’s livelihood as a pledge (vs. 6)– Items that would be needed to help finance repaying
• Punishment for kidnapping (vs. 7)– Kidnapping fellow Israelites resulted in death
• React quickly to a leprosy outbreak (vs. 8-9)– Follow the laws contained in Leviticus 13-14– Example of Miriam, from Numbers 12
• Handling a pledge in the right way (vs. 10-13)– Regarding collateral for a loan– Don’t be greedy even with collateral
Other Laws (24:6-13)
• Command to pay workers (vs. 14-15)– Do not oppress a worker– Pay their wages each day
• Each person judged for their own sins (vs. 16)– A person will only be put to death for their own sins,
not the sins of the parents or children
• Command to be compassionate (vs. 17-18)– Remembering how God had blessed them
• Leave behind something for the poor (vs. 19-22)– Do not completely harvest the fields– To help feed the poor
Fairness (24:14-22)
• Limit on corporal punishment (vs. 1-3)– Courts were to justify the righteousness and condemn
the guilty– The guilty man cannot be given more than 40 lashes– See 2 Cor 11:24 regarding Paul’s credentials
• Command to not muzzle the ox (vs. 5)– Human treatment of a working animal
Laws to Protect (25:1-4)
• Obligations of surviving brothers (vs. 5-10)– If brothers with families live together and one dies,
the other must marry the deceased brother’s wife if they have not son
– If he refuses, he and his descendents will be scorned
• Wives forbidden to interfere in their husband’s fights (vs. 11-12)
• Correct weights and measures (vs. 13-16)• Command to destroy Amalek (vs. 17-19)
– Amalek attacked the Israelites in Exodus 17– Joshua eventually led Israel in victory over Amalek
Laws in Family Matters (25:5-19)