John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Deuteronomy 4 This chapter contains an exhortation to Israel to keep the commands, statutes, and judgments of God, urged from the superior excellency of them to those of all other nations, Deuteronomy 4:1, from the manner in which they were delivered, out of the midst of fire, by a voice of words, but no similitude seen, Deuteronomy 4:9, and particularly the Israelites are...
John Gill
Furthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes,.... See Deuteronomy 3:26: and sware that I should not go over Jordan; this circumstance of swearing is nowhere else expressed: and that I should not go in unto that good land; the land of Canaan; he might see it, as he did from Pisgah, but not enter into it: which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance; to them and to their children...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter we have, I. A most earnest and pathetic exhortation to obedience, both in general, and in some particular instances, backed with a great variety of very pressing arguments, repeated again and again, and set before them in the most moving and affectionate manner imaginable, ver. 1-40. II. The appointing of the cities of refuge on that side Jordan, ver. 41-43. III. The particular...