God's wrath on the wicked. 1451. DEUTERONOMY. Before of your children that shall rise up CHRIST after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that Hel, where land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; with the LORD hath made it sick. d Ps. 107, 34. Jer. 17 6. Zeph. 2. 9. 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, dand salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like Gen. 19. 21, the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 25. Jer. 20, 16. fl Kings 9. 8. Jer. 22. 8,9. 9. Or, who given to ↑ Heb. g Dan. 9. 11, 13, 14. h1 Kings 14. 15. 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, 6 to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 And the LORD h rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast 2 Chr. 7. 20. them into another land, as it is this day. Ps, 52. 5. Prov. 2. 22. a Lev. 26. 40. b ch. 28. 29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. CHAPTER XXX. 1 Great mercies promised unto the repentant. 11 The commandment is manifest. 15 Death and life are set before them. AND it shall come to pass, when ball these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among 1 Kings 8.47, all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, ech. 4. 29,30, 48. d Neh. 1. 9. Is. 55. 7 Lam. 3. 40 2 And shalt & return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice Joel 2. 12,13. according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul: 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. Ps. 106. 45. & 126. 1, 4. Jer 29. 14. Lam. 3, 22, 32. f Ps. 147. 2. Jer. 32. 37. Ex. 34. 13. & 36. 24. gch 23, 64. Neb. 1. 9. 48 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; Mercy to the penitent. and he will do thee good, and multi- Before ply thee above thy fathers. CHRIST 1461. 6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. heh. 10. 16. Jer. 32. 39. Ea. 11. 19. & 36. 26. 9 And the LORD thy God will ich, 28. 11. make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again k rejoice over k ch. 28. 63. thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. Jer. 32, 41. 11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not 11s. 45. 19. hidden from thec, neither is it far off. &o. 12 m It is not in heaven, that thou m Rom. 10.6. shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 15 See, I have set before theen ver. 1, 19. this day life and good, and death a Ex. 7. 7. 1 Kinga 3. 7. o Num.20.12. & 27. 13. ch. 3. 27, d ch. 9. 3. • Num.27. 21. ch. 3. 28. fch. 3. 21. 33. CHAPTER XXXI. 1 Mosca encourageth the people. 7 He encourageth Joshua. 9 He delivereth the law unto the priests to read it in the seventh year to the people. 14 God giveth a charge to Joshua, 19 and a song to testify against the people. 24 Moses delivereth the book of the law to the Levites to keep. 28 He maketh a protestation to the elders. AND Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. 2 And he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more bgo out and come in also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said. 4 f And the LORD shall do unto g Num.21.21, them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. h ch, 7, 2, i Josh, 10, 25. 1 Chr. 22, 13. k ch. 1. 29. & 7. 18. 1 ch. 20. 4. m Josh, 1. 5. Heb. 13. 5. л ver. 23. ch. 1. 38. & 3. 28. Juah. 1. 6. o Ex. 13. 21, ch. 9. 3. 5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. 6 Be strong and of a good courage, k fear not, nor be afraid of them for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; m he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and of a good courage for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 8 And the LORD, °he it is that 22. & 33. 14. doth go before thee; Phe will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. p Josh.1.5.9. 1 Chr.28.20. q ver. 25. cli. 17. 18. 9 T And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons Num. 4. 15. of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. Josh. 3. 3. 1 Chr.15.12, 15. sch. 15, 1. t Lev. 23, 34, u ch. 16. 16. x Josh. 8. 31, 35. 2 Kings 23.2. Neh. 8. 1, 2, 3, &c. 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11 When all Israel is come to "appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, *thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. and giveth him a charge. Before 1451. 12 y Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and CHRIST thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: y ch. 4. 10. 18 And "I will surely hide my face Judg. 6. 13. in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, Pand waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. The song of Moses. Before CHRIST 1451. u ver. 14. I ver. 7. Josh, 1. 6. y ver. 9. 1840 2 Kings 22, 8, a ver. 19. b ch. 9. 24. & deh. 30. 19. & 32. 1. e ch. 32, 5. Judg. 2. 19. Hos. 9. 9. feh. 28. 15. g Gen. 49. L. ch. 4. 30. ach. 4. 20. & DEUTERONOMY. the same day, and taught it the chil- 23" And he gave Joshua the son 25 That Moses commanded the Le- 27 b For I know thy rebellion, and 29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and fevil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. 30 And Moses spake in the cars of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended. CHAPTER XXXII. 1 Moses' song, which setteth forth God's 30. 19. & 31. r will speak; and hear, O' earth, 28. Pa. 50. 4. bl. 55. 10.11. 8. c Ps. 72. 6. Mio. 5. 7. d1 Chr. 29.11. • 2 Sam. 22.3. & 23.3. 46. Hab. 1. 12. f2 Sam.22.31. 2 b My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: 3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: dascribe ye greatness unto our God. The song of Moses. hath he not made thee, and estab- 7 Remember the days of old, con- 8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he "separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the flot of his inheritance. 11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, 13 He made him ride on the high y Pa. 17. 8. ch. 33, 29. 1.58.14 Ez, 36. 2. bJob 29. 6. Pa. 81. 10. . 16, & d Gen. 49. 11. ch. 33.5, 26. 147. 14. Ia. 41. 2. 11 8am. 2. 29. Neh. 8. 25. Ps. 17. 10. Jer. 2.7. & 5. 7,28. Hos. 13. 6. h ch. 31. 15. 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and knew not, to new gods that came i ver. 6. Ps. 89. 26. & 95. 1. 11 Kin. 14.22. 1 Cor. 10. 22. m Lev. 17. 7. Pa. 106. 37. 1 Cor. 10. 20. Rev. 9. 20. 18" Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hust "forgotten God that formed thee. 19 P And when the LORD saw it, Or, which he abhorred them, " because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 4 He is the Rock, fhis work is perP. 18, 2, 31, fect: for all his ways are judgment: 20 And he said, "I will hide my ha God of truth and without in- face from them, I will see what their iquity, just and righ❤is hc. end shall be: for they are a very 5kThey have corrupted them-froward generation, children in selves, their spot is not the spot of whom is no faith. his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. Before voke them to anger with a foolish CHRIST nation. 1451. y Jer. 15. 14. & 17. 4. Lam. 4. 11. Or, hath burned. Or hath consumed. zI3, 26. 15. aPs. 7. 12, 13. Ex. 5. 16. + Heb, burning coals, Hab. 3. 5. b Lev. 26. 22. c Lam. 1. 20. Ez. 7. 15. 2 Cor. 7. 5. + Heb. from the chambers, + Heb. bereave. d Ez. 20. 13, 14, 23, e Jer. 19. 4. f Pa. 140. 8. Or, Our high hand, and not the LORD. hath done all this. g Is. 27. 11. Jer, 4. 22. hch. 5. 29, Po. 81. 13. & 107. 43. The song of Moses. 39 See now that a I, even I, am he, and bthere is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on 40 d For I lift up my hand to heavfire the foundations of the mount-en, and say, I live for ever. ains. 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. 26 d I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among inon: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they Luke 19. 42. understood this, that they would consider their latter end! i Ia. 47. 7. Jam. 1. 9. k Lev. 26. 8. Josh. 23. 10. 30 How should k one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to 2 Chr. 24. 24. flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? Ia. 30. 17. 1 Pa. 44. 12. Is. 50, 1. & 52. 3. 31 Form their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies them n m 1 Sam. 2.2. selves being judges. n1 Sam. 4. 8. Jor. 40. 3. o Is. 1. 10. 1 Or, is worse than the vine of Sodem, fo. p Pa. 58. 4. q Pa. 140, 3. Rom. 3. 13. r Job 14. 17. Jer. 2 22 Hos 13. 12. Rom. 2. 5. s Pa. 91. 1. Rom. 12. 19. 32 For their vine || is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and scaled up among my treasures? 35 To me belungeth vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their caHeb. 10. 30. lamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 For the LORD shall judge his Judg. 2. 18. people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their tpower is gone, and Y there is none shut up, or left. t 2 Pet. 2. 3. u Pa. 135. 14. Pa 103, 45. Jer. 31. 20. Joel 2. 14. + Heb. hand. yl Kings 11. 10 & 21. 21. 2 Kings 9. 8. & 14 26. Judg. 1.14. Jer. 2. 28, + Heb. a hiding for you, 37 And he shall say, "Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38 Which did cat the fat of their' sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be t your protection. 41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 42 I will make mine arrows 5 drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of h revenges upon the enemy. 43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will k avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and in will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. 44 T And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and | Hoshea the son of Nun. 45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: 46 And he said unto them, " Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a vain thing for you; " because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. 48 P And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, Before CHRIST 1451. a Ps. 102. 27. b ch. 4. 35. Ia.45.5,18,22. el Sam. 2. 6, 2 Kings 5. 7. Job 5. 18. Pa. 68. 2). Hos. 6. 1. d Gen. 14. 22. Ex. 6. 8. Num. 14.30. e Is. 27. 1. & g Jer. 46. 10. ye nations: i Rom. 15. 10. k Rev. 6. 10. & 19. 2. 1 ver. 41. Ps. 85. 1. Or, Joshua. n ch. 6. 6. & 11. 18. Ez. 40. 4. 49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession: 50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother Num. 20.25, died in mount Hor, and was gathercd unto his people: 28. & 33, 38. 12. 13. & 27. 11. 51 Because ye trespassed against Num. 20.11. me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. 52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel. CHAPTER XXXIII. 1 The majesty of God. 6 The blessings of the twelve tribes. 20 The excellency of Israel. Or. Strife at Kadesh. t See Lev. 10. 3. u Num.27.12 cl. 31. 4. a Gen. 49. 28. 1491. ND this is the blessing, where- LP. 90, title, with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 2 And he said, The LORD came © Ex.19.13,20 Judg. 5. 4,5Hab. 3. 3. The prophecy of Moses Before CHRIST 1451. dSeePs.68.17. Dan. 7. 10. Acta 7, 53. Gal 3. 19. Heb. 2. 2. DEUTERONOMY. Before concerning the twelve tribes. front Sinai, and rose up from Seirb the horns of tunicorns: with them unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with d ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. 3 Yea, he loved the people; fall Rev. 5. 11. & his saints are in thy hand: and they 6 sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words. 9. 16. ↑ Heb. a fire of law. •Ex. 19, 5. ela. 7. 7, 8. P. 47. 4. Hos. IL. 1. Mal. 1. 2. fch. 7. 6. 1 Sam. 2. 9. Ps. 50. 5. Luke 10. 39. Acts 2. 3. Prov. 2. 1. i John 1. 17. &7. 19. P. 119. 111. 18ee Gen. 36. 31. m ch. 32. 15. r Gen. 29. 32. Job 37.21. 4 i Moses commanded us a law, keven the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. 5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together. 6 T Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few. 7 T And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: "let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou a help to him from his enemies. 8 T And of Levi he said, P Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; 9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his 1 Chr. 17. 17. brethren, nor knew his own children for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. 10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar. Ex. 32. 26, t See Jer. 18. Mal, 2, 5, 6. Or, Let them teach, fe. u Lev. 10. 11. ch. 17 9, 19, 11. & 24. 8. Ex. 44. 23, 24. Mal. 2. 7. Or, let them put incense. x Ex. 30. 7, 8 Num. 16. 40. 1 Sam. 2. 28. + Heb. at thy y Lev. 1.9.13, 17. Pa. 51. 19. Es. 43. 27. 28am.21.23. Ps. 20, 3. Ea.20, 40, 41. & 43. 27. a Gen. 49. 25. + Heb. •Ex. 3.2, 4. Acta 7.30,35, fGen. 49. 20. 1 Chr. 5. 1. 11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and 2 accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again. 12 T And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders. 13 And of Joseph he said, "Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, 14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, 15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things d of the lasting hills, 16 And for the precicus things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the pool wilt de him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing fcome upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren. 17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like 1451. La Num. 23.22 Ps. 92. 10. he shall push the people together to CHRIST the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. 18 T And of Zebulun he said, Re-Hel joice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents. a unicorn. il Kin. 22.11. Pa. 44. 5. 19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall k Gen. 48. 19. offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand. 1 Gen. 49. 13, 14, 15. in Is. 2. 3. n Ps. 4. 5. 20 T And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that "enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth o See Josh.13. as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head. 10, &c. I Chr. 12, 8, Num. 32,16, 21 And Phe provided the first part for himself, because there, in a por-17, tion of the lawgiver, was het seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel. 22 T And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: The shall leap from Bashan. 23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD, possess thou the west and the south. 24 T And of Asher he said, "Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. 25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be. 26 T There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, bwho rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. 27 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and dhe shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them. |