Deuteronomy 27:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:

Deuteronomy 27:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 9:7
And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
Genesis 30:24
And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
Deuteronomy 11:26-29
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; …
Genesis 35:18
And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing,(for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis 29:33-35
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Amen Anathema Maran-Atha Benedictions Blessing Commandments Curse Ebal

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-26)

When the law was written, to be seen and read by all men, the sanctions of it were to be published, which, to complete the solemnity of their covenanting with God, they were deliberately to declare their approbation of. This they were before directed to do (Deut. 11:29, 30), and therefore the appointment here begins somewhat abruptly, Deut. 27:12. There were, it seems, in Canaan, that part of it w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

11-13. These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people ... these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse--Those long, rocky ridges lay in the province of Samaria, and the peaks referred to were near Shechem (Nablous), rising in steep precipices to the height of about eight hundred feet and separated by a green, well-watered valley of about five hundred yards wide. The people of Israel were h…