Deuteronomy 10

Chap. X. Ver. 1—22. The two tables restored, and obedience again enjoined.—The history of these second tables we have already had, in the 34th chapter of Exodus, and it needs no farther remark. But there is a passage relative to the encampments of the children of Israel, and the death of Aaron, (verses 6 and 7,) which is evidently a parce ae and, as Scott thinks, should follow the eleventh verse. The words themselves are also difficult to reconcile with the journal of their encampments in Numbers, ((Deuteronomy 33)) Such small mistakes and apparent dislocations occur in all very ancient writings, and (as we have before observed) could not have been prevented without a perpetual miracle; but it is our consolation, that though these may create some difficulties in geography or chronology, they affect neither the doctrines nor the duties of religion. The practical admonitions which follow, are not more excellent in themselves than they are eloquently expressed.

They trace all the blessings of Israel to their proper source, “The Lord had a delight in thy fathers;” and show the accomplishment of all the promises made to them in their present wonderful increase. “Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.”