Moses exhorteth BEFORE CHRIST 1451. • ch. 4. 34. & 7. 19. d See Is. 6.9, 10. & 63. 17. John 8. 43. Acts 28. 26, 27. Eph. 4. 18. 2 Thess. 2. 11, 12. e ch. 1. 3. f ch. 8. 4. DEUTERONOMY, XXIX. Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;, 3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong Ps.78.24,25. drink that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. k ch. 4. 6. Josh. 1. 7. 1 Kings 2.3. 1 Josh. 1.7. m See Josh. 9.21,23,27. 2 Heb. pass. : 7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we,smote them: 8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. k 9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. 10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: 12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, Neh.10.29. and "into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: to obedience. from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; "lest there should be among you a root that beareth 23 gall and wormwood; 19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk win the 'imagination of mine heart, to add 'drunkenness to thirst: 20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are writ-6 ten in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: 22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; say, 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say, f 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: 8 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, & to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 And the LORD "rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day. 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. 18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, ch. 11. 16. whose heart turneth away this day 2 BEFORE CHRIST 1451. a Acts 8. 23. Heb. 12. 15. Or, a poisonful herb. 8 Heb. rosh. d Neh. 1. 9. Is. 55. 7. Joel 2. 12, 13. с 2 And shalt return unto the LORD Lam. 3. 40. thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; ePs. 106. 45. & 126. 1, 4. Jer. 29. 14. Lam. 3. 22, 32. (Ps. 147. 2. Jer. 32. 37. to the penitent. for 12m It is not in heaven, that thou 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. n BEFORE CHRIST 1451. m Rom. 10. 6, &c. ch. 11. 26. 15 ¶ See, I have set before thee ver. 1, 19. this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk 3 That then the LORD thy God in his ways, and to keep his comwill turn thy captivity, and have mandments and his statutes and his compassion upon thee, and will re-judgments, that thou mayest live and turn and gather thee from all the Ezek.34.13. nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. & 36. 24. 8 ch. 28. 64. Neh. 1. 9. 4 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; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. 6. And the LORD thy God will Ezek. 11.19. 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. -b ch. 10. 16. Jer. 32. 39. & 36. 26. 1 ch. 28. 11. 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. 9 And the LORD thy God will 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: ch. 28. 63. for the LORD will again *rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: 20 That thou mayest love the CHAPTER XXXI. voice of thou shalt they ken, to keep A words unto all Israel. ND Moses went and spake these his commandments and his statutes 11 For this commandment which b old P. 27.1. & 66. 9. John li. 25. a Ex. 7. 7. ch. 34. 7. 2 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years this day; I can no more go out Num. 27. and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. с 3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will de 17. Kings3.7. 12. & 27. 13. d ch. 9. 8. Moses encourageth BEFORE CHRIST 1451. • Num. 27. 21. ch. 3. 28. fch. 8. 21. DEUTERONOMY, XXXI. the people, and Joshua. stroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, • as the LORD hath said. f 4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Num. 21. Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. 24, 33. h ch. 7. 2. 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. Be strong and of a good cour1 Chron. 22. age, 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. 1 Josh. 10. 25. 13. k ch. 1. 29. & 7. 18. 1 ch. 20. 4. m Josh. 1. 5. Heb. 13. 5. a ver. 23. ch. 1. 38. & 3. 28. Josh. 1. 6. • Ex. 13. 21, ch. 9. 21.&.33. 14. pJosh.1.5.9. 1 Chron. 28. 20. q ver. 25. k 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 doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. 9 ¶ And Moses wrote this law, a and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, 1 Chron. 15. and unto all the elders of Israel. ch. 17. 18. r Num. 4.15, Josh. 3. 3. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and 'I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, 'Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is m not among us? 18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. lie down. 2 Heb. Sam.7.12. Ex. 32. 6. Judg. 2. 17. ? Ex. 34. 15. ch. 32. 15. & 10. 6, 13. Judg. 2. 12. b Judg.2.20. 15. 2. 12 Chron. ch. 32. 20. Ps. 104. 29. 64.7. Is. 8. 17. & Ezek. 39.28. 3 Heb. find them. 1Judg. 6.13. Neh. 9. 32. m Num. 14. 42. n ver. 17. 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 over. 26. 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 pro-a voke me, and break my covenant. The song BEFORE CHRIST 1451. See2Kings 22.8. A ver. 19. b ch. 9. 24. & 32. 20. ch. 9. 6. DEUTERONOMY, XXXII. 25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, 26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. 27 For I know thy rebellion, and Ex. 32. 9. thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death? 28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their 4 ch. 30. 19. ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. & 32. 1. 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 evil 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 ears 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 mercy and vengeance. 46 He exhorteth them to set their hearts upon it. 48 God sendeth him up to mount Nebo, to see the land, and die. GIVE IVE ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of mouth. my 2 b My doctrine shall drop as the 1 Cor. 3.6, rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Ps. 72.6. Mic. 5. 7. d 1 Chron. 29. 11. 2 Sam. 22. 3. & 23. 3. 3 Because I will publish the name P. 18. 2, 31, of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. 46. Hab. 1. 12. f2 Sam. 22. 31. Dan. 4.37. Rev. 15. 3. h Jer. 10. 10. 4 He is the Rock, 'his work is perfect for all his ways are judg1 Job 34. 10. ment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. Ps. 92. 15. 2 Heb. He hath corrupted to himself. ch. 31. 29. they are not 8 Or, that his children, that is their blot. 52They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a 'perverse and crooked generation. 6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, Matt.17.17. O foolish people and unwise? is not Phil. 2. 15. he thy father that hath bought P3.116.12. thee? hath he not Pmade thee, and Luke 9. 41. n Is. 63. 16. o Ps. 74. 2. P ver. 15. Is. 27. 11. & 44. 2. 4 Heb.generation and generation. 7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will Ex. 13. 14. shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. P. 44. 1. 78.3, 4. of Moses. BEFORE CHRIST 1451. 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 accord-Acts 17. 26. ing to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him "in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure "blood of the grape. and fkicked: thou art waxen fat, 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he "forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 'They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. 17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. 47. & 95. 1. 11 Kings 14.22. 1 Cor.10.22. m Lev. 17.7. Ps. 106. 37. 1 Cor. 10.20. Rev. 9. 20. were not n Is. 17. 10. Jer. 2. 32. Judg. 2.14. 6 Or, despised. Lam. 2. 6. q Is. 1. 2. r ch. 31. 17. 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very fro-Is. 30. 9. ward generation, children in whom is no faith. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger "with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. Matt. 17.17. t ver. 16. Ps. 78. 58. ☐ 1 Sam. 12. 21. 1 Kings 16. 13, 26. Jer. 8. 19. P. 31. 6. & 10. 8. & 14. 22. Jonah 2, 8. Acts 14. 15. x Hos. 1.10. Rom.10.19. The song BEFORE CHRIST 1451. y Jer. 15. 14. & 17. 4. DEUTERONOMY, XXXII. of Moses. BEFORE CHRIST 1451. 2 Heb. an hiding for you. 22 For a fire is kindled in mine 38 Which did eat the fat of their anger, and shall burn unto the low-sacrifices, and drank the wine of their est hell, and shall consume the earth drink offerings? let them rise up and with her increase, and set on fire the help you, and be 2your protection. Lam. 4. 11. foundations of the mountains. 39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any thatch. 4. 35. can deliver out of my hand. 2 Or, hath ▲ P3. 7. 12, 13. 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hunEzek. 5. 16. ger, and devoured with 'burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send bthe teeth of beasts 4 Heb. burning coals: Hab. 3. 5. b Lev. 26.22. upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword without, and terror 2 Cor. 7. 5.5 within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. 5 Heb. from the chambers. • Heb. bereavé. d Ezek. 20. 13, 14, 23. • Jer. 19. 4. 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves Ps. 140. 8. strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. 7 Or, Our high hand, and not the LORD, hath done all this. g Is. 27. 11. Jer. 4. 22. h ch. 5. 29. Ps. 81. 13. & 107.43. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they Luke 19. 42. would consider their latter end! 1 Is. 47. 7. Lam. 1. 9. 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock 'had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? 31 For their rock is not as our 1 Sam.4.8. Rock, "even our enemies themselves Jer. 40. 3. • Is. 1. 10. 8 Or, is worse than the vine of Sodom, &c. p Ps. 58. 4. Rom. 3. 13. being judges. 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 Pthe poison of Ps. 140. 3. dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? r Job 14. 17. Heb. 10. 30. u Ps. 185.14. *Judg.2.18. 35 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 "For the LORD shall judge his Ps. 10. 45. people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their 'power is gone, and there is none Jer. 31. 20. 1 Kings 14. 10. & 21. 21. shut up, or left. 2 Kings 9.8. ■ Judg. 10. 37 And he shall say, "Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judg-Gen.14. ment; I will render vengeance to Num. 14.50. mine enemies, and will reward them, 27.1. 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 revenges upon the enemy. 43 31 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and 'will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. 44 And Moses came and spake 45 And Moses made an end of 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 PAnd the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, 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 died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: |