Curses for disobedience. LEUTERONOMY, XXIX. Exhortations to obedience. fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 67 In the morning e thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egyptƒ again with ships, by the way whereof I spake g unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall eatr them for want of all things w Dan.9. 12. buy you. 16 cause to ascend. y Ne.7.4. Is. 1.9. 58 If thou wilt not observe to do ll the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious s and fearful t name, THE LORD Ne.9.23. THY & GOD; a ch.30.9. Jer.32.41. 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, w and the plagues of thy seed, even great b Pr.1.26. plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long Continuance. 60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases r of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. Is. 1.24. c Jer. 16.13. 50.17. Eze.11.16, 17. d Am.9.4. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, them will thee Job 7.4. LORD 16 bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. f Hos.8.13. 9.3. g ch.17.16. 62 And ye shall be left few y in umber, whereas ye were as the z stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the (CHAP. 29.) voice of the LORD thy God. 63 And it shall come to pass, that a ch.5.2,3. as the LORD rejoiced over you to b Ex.8.12. do you a good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over c ch.4.34. you to destroy b you and to bring d Is.6.9,10. you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. 63.17. Jno.8.43. e ch.8.4. 61 And the LORD shall scatter c thee among all people from the ƒ Ex. 16.35. one end of the earth even unto the cther: and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou Ps.78.24, 25. fathers have known, even nog 1Cor.9.25. and stone. h Nu.21.23. Jos. 1.7,8. 2Ch.23.16. CHAPTER XXIX. 2 An exhortation to obedience. 29 Secret things belong unto God. Tcovenant, which the LORD HESE are the words of the commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made a with them in Horeb. 2 T And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did b before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3 The great temptations c which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart d 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 e are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. 6 Ye have notf eaten bread, g neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. 7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon h the king of Heshbon, and Óg 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. 9 Keepi therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. 10 Ye stand this day all k of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders. and your officers, with all the men 34.29-32. of Israel, Ne.8.2. 66 And d among these nations 209 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: 14 12 That thou shouldest 1 enter nto covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, m which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: 13 That he may establish n thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said o unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham,p to Isaac, q and to Jacob.r 14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; 15 Buts 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: 16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; 17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their 2 idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them :) B. C. 1451. pass. p Ge. 17.7. Ge.28.13- & Acts 2.39. dungy gods t Acts 8.23. 5 the drunk- 18 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 * Ps.79.5. go and serve the gods of these na-y ch.9.14. tions; lest there should be among Eze. 14.7,8. you a root that beareth 3 gallt and z Mat.24.51. wormwood; u 6 is written. 19 And it come to pass, when he wherewith heareth the words of this curse, the LORD that he bless himself in his heart, hath made saying, I shall have peace, though it sick. I walk in the 4 imagination of mine Jer. 17.6. heart, to add 5 drunkenness v to Zep.2.9. thirst.: a b Ps. 107.34. 20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the angerw of the LORD and his jealousy x shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall d 1Ki.9.8,9. lie upon him, and the LORD shall Jer.22.8,9. blot out y his name from under 8 or, who heaven. had not given to them any Dr.2.22,28. 1Cor.2. 16. h Ps.78.2-7. 21 And the LORD shall separate z him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant that 6 are written 9 divided. in this book of the law: e Da. 9.11-14. 22 So that the generation to come f 1Ki. 14. 15. of your children that shall rise up g Jer.23.18. 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 7 which the LORD hath laid upon it; 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, a and burning, that it is not sown, nor bear-b eth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and c Je.32.37,&c Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, Eze.36.24. which the LORD overthrew c in his d Ne.1.9. anger and in his wrath. 2Ti.3.16. 1J no. 1.9. with Israel. 21 Even all nations shall say Wherefore d 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, I 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 8 whom he had not 9 given unto them: 27 Ande 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 rootedƒ 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 g things belong unto AND it shall come to pass, when 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and c gather thee from all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. 4 Ifd any of thine be driven out unto the utmost 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 fa thers. 6 And the LORD thy God will ci cumcise 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 ene The command man fest. DEUTERONOMY, XXXI. Moses encourages Joshua. mes, e and on them that hate thee, B. C. 1451. which persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all e Is. 14.1-27. Ob.10. his commandments which I com- fch.28.11. mand thee this day. 9 And f 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: for the LORD will againg rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: 10 If thou shalt hearken h 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 k unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul. 11For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not 7 hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 12 It m is not in heaven, that thou 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 tinto 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. g Zep.3.17. i Cor.7.19. k ver.2. &c. ł Ps. 147. 19. m Ro. 10.6, n ver. 1, 19. o Mat.22.37, 38. P Jno.14.21. t s ch.4.26. 31.28. ch.32.1. Is. 1.2. Je. 2.12,13. u Jer.22.29. Mi.6. 1,2. Ps.27.1. 30.5. Jno.11.25. Acts 17.28. See, In have set before thee (CHAP. 31.) this day life and good, and death a ch.34.7. and evil; Ex.7.7. Ps.44.2,3. 16 In that I command thee this b ch.3.27. day to love o the LORD thy God, to Nu.20.12. walk in his ways, and to keepp his c ch.9.3. commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the lande Nu.21.24, whither thou goest to possess it. d Nu.27. 18 21. 33. 17 But if thine heart q turn away, fch.7.2,18. so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt & Jos. 10.25. be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that e shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. i 1Ch.22.13. h ch.20.4. Jos. 1.5. Is.43.1-5. Heb. 13.5. k ch.3.28. Jos. 1.6. Ex. 13.21, 22. 19 Is call heavent and earth u to ver.3. record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore m ver.6. choose life, that both thou and thy n ver.25,26. seed may live: 0 ch.15.1. Log That thou mayest love the the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. CHAPTER XXXI 1 Moses encourageth the people, and Joshua. 9 He delivereth the law unto the priests. 14 God giveth a charge to Joshua. AND Moses went, and spake these words unto all Israel. 2 And he said unto them, I am a an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in also the LORD hath said b unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 3 The LORD thy God, he c 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 d said. 4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he dide to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them whom he destroyed. 5 And the LORD shall give ƒ them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. 6 Beg strong and of a good courage, h fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he il is that doth go with thee, he i will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 7T And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Bek 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 l it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will m not fail thee, r,either forsake thec: fear not, neither bo dismayed. 9 And Moses wrote this law and delivered n it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of o release, in the feast p of tabernacles, 11 When all Israel is come tog appear before the LORD thy Lev 23.34. the place which he shall hodin Jos.8.34. q ch.16.16. 2Ki.23.2. LORD thy God, and that thou may- thou shalt r read this law before ali Israel in their hearing. 12 Gathers the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they Moses' song DEUTERONOMY, XXXII. may learn, and fear the LORD your B. C. 1451. t Ps.78.4-8. u ch.34.5. 13 And that their children, t which nave not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD ver.23. Nu.27.19. your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to w Ex.33.9. 1 lie down, possess it. 2Sam.7.12. Ex.32.6. y Ex.34.15. Ju.2.17,20. Ps.73.27. Jer.3.1. Eze. 16. 15. z 2Chr. 15.2. a Is.64.7. Eze.39.23, 24. 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die u call Joshua, and present yourselves in the taberna-. cle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. v And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. 15 And w the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood Dver the door of the tabernacle. 2 find. b Nu. 14.42. c ch.32. 15. Hos. 13.6. 16 And the LORD said unto Moes, Behold, thou shalt 1 sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up and go a whoringy after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among d ver. 17. them, and will forsake me, and 3 before. break my covenant which I have e Ps. 139.2. made with them. Hos.5.3. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and Iz will forsake them, and I will hide a my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall 2 befall them, so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not b among us? 18 And I will surely hide my face im that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. do. 2K1.22.8,&c k Ju.2.19. against the propie. 22 Moses therefore wrote the song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee. 21 T And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 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 f for a witness against thee. 27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious g against the LORD; and how much more after my death? 28 Gather h unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your offi cers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and i call heaven and earth to record against them. 29 For I know that after my death ~~ye will utterly corrupt k 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 an ger 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. 12Ch.34.24. (CHAP. 32.) a ch.30.19. 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the chil-b dren of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. Ps.50.4. c 1Ch.29.11. d Ps. 18.2. 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth e Ec.3.14. with milk and honey; and they f Dan.4.37. shall have eaten and c filled themg Ps.92.15. selves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. 1 He hath 2 they are 21 And it shall come to pass, when d many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify 3 against them as a witness: for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for le know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have i Ex. 15. 16. brought them into the land which 1Cor.6.20. I sware. their lot. h Is.63.16. 46 has 1 Moses' song, which setteth forth God's mercy and vengeance; exhortation. Gwill speak, and her, earth, VIVE a ear, O ye heavens, and f the words of my mouth. 2 My doctrine shall drop b as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the shower upon the grass: 3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe c ye great ness unto our God. 4 He is the d Rock, his work ise per fect: for all his ways f are pidg ment: a God of g truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. 5 They have corrupted them. selves, 2their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. 6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not The thy father h that hath bought 1 Ge. 11.8. 8 When the Most High divided k to m Ex. 19.5. the nations their inheritance, when Ps. 135.4. ne separated the sons of Adam, 4 cord. he set the bounds of the people n Ps.78.71. according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 Form the LORD's portion as his people; Jacob is the 4 lot of his n inheritance. Ep.1.18. sor, compassed. o Zec.2.8. 10 He found him in a desert land, p Is.63.9. and in the waste howling wilder-4 1s.58.14. ess; he led him about, o he in- r Ps.81.16. structed him, he kept him as the s Is.44.2. apple of his eye. t 1Sam.2.29. Acts 9.5. Ne.9.25,26. v 1Cor.10.22. 11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spread-u ethabroad her wings, taketh them,p beareth them on her wings: 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, w 1Co. 10.20. and there was no strange god with 6 or, which him. were not God, v.21. Is. 17.10. or, despised 13 He g 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 rout of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; y Rn. 10.19. 14 Butter of kine, and milk of z Lam.4.11. sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams or, hath of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. Lurned. 9 or, hath consumed. a Zep.3.8. 15 But Jeshurun s waxed fat, b Eze.5. 16. and t kicked: thou art waxen fat, 10 coals, thou art grown thick, thou art co- Hab.3.5. vered with fatness; then he u for-e Eze.14.21. Book God which made him, and 11 from the Lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 They provoked him to " jea- d ch.28.64. lousy with strange gods, with abomi-13 nations provoked they him to anger. 17 They w sacrificed unto 6 devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers fear ed not. chambers. 12 bereave. or, our high hand, and not the LORD, hath done. Ps.81.13. f Is.50.1. g 1Sam.2.2. than. 16 Of the Rock that begat thee thou 1Sam.4.8. art unmindful, and hast forgotten x 14 or, worse God that formed thee. 19 And when the LORD saw it, i Jer.2.21. he Tabhorred them, because of the k Is. 1.10. provoking of his sons and of his Ps.58.4. daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide from them, I will see what their my face end thall be: for they are a very frogeneration, children in whom no faith. wand m Ro.3.13. n Jer.2.22. Rom.2.5. and vengeance. have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will y move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire z is kindled in mine anger, and 8 shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth a with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. o Heb. 10.30. p Jer. 13. 16. q 2 Pet.2.3. r Ju. 10. 15,16, 21 They have moved me to jealousy 15 hand. with that which is not God; they 23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows b upon them. 21 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning To eat, and with bitter destruc tion: I will also send the teeth c of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword without, and terror 11 within, shall 12 destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. 26 I said, I would scatter d them into corners, I would make the re membrance 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 strangely, and lest they should say, 13 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 under standing in them. 29 Oe that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 30 How should one chase a thou sand, and two put ten thousand te flight, except their Rock had sold, them, and the LORD had shut them up? 31 For g their rock is not as our Rock, even h our enemies themselves being judges: 32 For their vine is 14 of the vine i of Sodom, k 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.m 31 Is not this laid up n in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? 35 To me o belongeth vengeance, and recompense; their foot p shall slide in due time for the day of their calamity is at hand, g and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent r himself for hus servants, when he seeth that their 15 power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left |