Deuteronomy 29
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These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
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.
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
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:
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.
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
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,
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:
That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

thou shouldest

Deuteronomy 5:2,3 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb…

Exodus 19:5,6 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, …

Joshua 24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them …

2 Kings 11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the …

2 Chronicles 15:12-15 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers …

enter [heb] pass This is an allusion to the solemn ceremony used by several ancient nations, when they entered into a covenant with each other. The victims, slain as a sacrifice on this occasion, were divided, and and parts laid asunder: the contracting parties then passed between them, imprecating, as a cursed on those who violated the sacred compact, that they might in like manner be cut asunder.

Genesis 15:10 And he took to him all these, and divided them in the middle, and …

Cyril, in his work against Julian, show that passing between the divided parts of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other people.

into his oath

Deuteronomy 29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

2 Chronicles 15:12-15 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers …

Nehemiah 10:28,29 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, …

That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

idols [heb] dungy gods

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
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 in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

this curse

Deuteronomy 29:12 That you should enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into …

Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not …

that he bless

Deuteronomy 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD …

Numbers 15:30,39 But the soul that does ought presumptuously, whether he be born in …

Psalm 10:4-6,11 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after …

Psalm 49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise you, …

Psalm 94:6,7 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless…

Proverbs 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be …

Jeremiah 5:12,13 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall …

Jeremiah 7:3-11 Thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and …

Jeremiah 28:15-17 Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, …

Jeremiah 44:16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, …

Jeremiah 17:27 But if you will not listen to me to hallow the sabbath day, and not …

Ezekiel 13:16,22 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, …

Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things …

though I walk

Numbers 15:30 But the soul that does ought presumptuously, whether he be born in …

Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you …

Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, …

2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself …

Ephesians 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you from now …

imagination. or, stubbornest

Jeremiah 3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and …

Jeremiah 7:24 But they listened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the …

to add A very forcible metaphor, denoting the natural progress and increasing avidity of sinful passions and depraved inclinations; which lead men to drink down iniquity as the drunkard does his liquor, without regard to the consequences. Some render, `to add thirst to drunkenness;' and then it implies the insatiableness of men's sinful passions, which pander for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses.

drunkenness to thirst [heb] the drunken to the thirsty

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 written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

will not spare

Psalm 78:50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, …

Proverbs 6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in …

Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the …

Jeremiah 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the …

Ezekiel 5:11 Why, as I live, said the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled …

Ezekiel 7:4,9 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will …

Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither …

Ezekiel 9:10 And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, …

Ezekiel 14:7,8 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojournes …

Ezekiel 24:14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; …

Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, …

Romans 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also …

2 Peter 2:4,5 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down …

the anger

Psalm 74:1 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke …

his jealousy

Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the …

Exodus 34:14 For you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, …

Psalm 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved …

Psalm 79:5 How long, LORD? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?

Songs 8:6 Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm: for love is …

Ezekiel 8:3,5 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of my …

Ezekiel 23:25 And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously …

Ezekiel 36:5 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy …

Nahum 1:2 God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is …

Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them …

1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

smoke

Psalm 18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth …

Psalm 74:1 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke …

Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

all the curses

Deuteronomy 27:15-26 Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination …

Deuteronomy 28:15-68 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of …

blot out

Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from …

Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest …

Exodus 32:32,33 Yet now, if you will forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I …

Psalm 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written …

Ezekiel 14:7,8 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojournes …

Revelation 3:5 He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and …

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:
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 say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;

which the Lord hath laid upon it. [heb] wherewith the Lord hath made it sick.

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:
Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
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:
For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
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.
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.

secret

Job 11:6,7 And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom…

Job 28:28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; …

Psalm 25:14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show …

Proverbs 3:32 For the fraudulent is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is …

Daniel 2:18,19,22,27-30 That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret…

Daniel 4:9 O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the …

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he reveals his secret to …

Matthew 13:35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, …

John 15:15 From now on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what …

John 21:22 Jesus said to him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that …

Acts 1:7 And he said to them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, …

Romans 11:33,34 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! …

Romans 16:25,26 Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, …

1 Corinthians 2:16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? …

revealed

Psalm 78:2-7 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old…

Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this …

Matthew 11:27-30 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knows the …

Matthew 13:11 He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know …

John 20:31 But these are written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, …

Romans 16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, …

2 Timothy 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in you, which …

2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for …

and to our

Deuteronomy 6:7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk …

Deuteronomy 30:2 And shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according …

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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