And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
A brief and earnest exhortation by way of conclusion to the second and longest discourse of the book. Deu 26:17 Thou hast avouched - literally, “made to say:” so also in the next verse. The sense is:…
Two things Moses here urges to enforce all these precepts: - 1. That they were the commands of God, Deu 26:16. They were not the dictates of his own wisdom, nor were they enacted by any authority of…
Cambridge Bible
and to make thee high above all nations, etc.] As remarked above on Deu 26:26, this belongs properly not to Israel's but to Jehovah's declaration. High or highest, cp. Deu 15:6; Deu 28:1.
which he…
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