DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 29 The manifold works and mercies of God a motive to obedience, DEUTERONOMY 29:1. Moses solemnly engageth them to keep covenant with God, DEUTERONOMY 29:10. Unbelief, careless contempt, and breach of covenant shall be severely punished, DEUTERONOMY 29:18. The end and use of the r... [ Continue Reading ]
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This verse comes in by way of correction or exception to the foregoing clause in this manner, I said indeed, _Ye have seen_, &c., DEUTERONOMY 29:2, and _thine eyes have seen_, &c., but I must recall my words, for in truth you have not seen them; in seeing you have not seen, and perceiving you have n... [ Continue Reading ]
So far that it was necessary for you to throw them away, and to get new ones. SEE ON "DEUTERONOMY 8:4".... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT EATEN BREAD, i.e. common bread purchased by your own money, or made by your own hands, but heavenly and angelical bread, DEUTERONOMY 8:3 PSALMS 78:24,25. You have subsisted without bread, the staff of life. NEITHER WINE OR STRONG DRINK, but only water out of the rock. THE LORD YOUR GOD; the Lord... [ Continue Reading ]
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BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD; in his presence, who sees your hearts and carriages; and before his tabernacle, where it is probable they were now called together, and assembled for this work. See DEUTERONOMY 29:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
THY STRANGER; such strangers as had embraced their religion. FROM THE HEWER OF THY WOOD UNTO THE DRAWER OF THY WATER; all sorts of persons, yea, even the meanest of them, such as these were, JOSHUA 9:27, all sorts and ranks of servants.... [ Continue Reading ]
INTO COVENANT, AND INTO HIS OATH, i.e. into covenant or agreement, confirmed by a solemn oath.... [ Continue Reading ]
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i.e. With your posterity; for so the covenant was made at first with Abraham and his seed, by which, as God engaged himself to continue the blessing of Abraham upon his posterity, so he also engaged them to the same duties and conditions which were required of Abraham. So it is even among men, where... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, where you have seen their idolatries, and learned too much of them, as the golden calf showed, and therefore need to renew your covenant with God; where also we were in dreadful bondage, whence God alone hath delivered us, to whom therefore we are deeply obliged, and have all r... [ Continue Reading ]
What sorry tools they are, what senseless and ridiculous deities; so that you have great reason to value your God, and to cleave to him in covenant, and to take heed of such abominable idolatries.... [ Continue Reading ]
LEST THERE SHOULD BE; or take heed or beware _lest there be_; for it seems to be an ellipsis, or defect of a verb, which is usual in Scripture, and which we have in a case parallel to this. GENESIS 3:22. _And now_ we must take care _lest he put forth_, &c. Or this particle _lest_ may be joined with... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN HE, i.e. that root or that man mentioned DEUTERONOMY 29:18. OF THIS CURSE, i.e. of that oath mentioned DEUTERONOMY 29:12, wherein he swore that he would keep covenant with God, and that with a curse pronounced against himself if he did not perform it. Now if when he reads this again, or hears o... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL SMOKE, i.e. shall burn and break forth with flame and smoke as it were from a furnace. Compare PSALMS 18:8. BLOT OUT HIS NAME FROM UNDER HEAVEN, i.e. destroy his person and memory from amongst men.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO EVIL, i.e. unto some peculiar and exemplary plague; he will make him a monument of his displeasure to the whole land. ACCORDING TO ALL THE CURSES OF THE COVENANT; he intimates that the covenant of grace, which God made with them, hath not only blessings belonging to it, as this foolish person i... [ Continue Reading ]
The words following, DEUTERONOMY 29:24,25, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS BRIMSTONE, AND SALT, AND BURNING, i.e. is burnt up and made barren, as with brimstone and salt. See JUDGES 9:45 PSALMS 107:34 JEREMIAH 17:6 EZEKIEL 47:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
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i.e. Whom God had not given or divided to them, as their portion, or for their worship, but hath _divided_ them _unto all nations_, as it is said, DEUTERONOMY 4:19, not for their worship, but for their use and service. So he speaks here of the sun and moon and stars, which were the principal gods wo... [ Continue Reading ]
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Having now mentioned the dreadful and amazing judgments of God upon the whole land and people of Israel, and foreseeing by the Spirit of prophecy the utter extirpation and destruction which would come upon them for their wickedness, he breaks out into this pathetical exclamation, either to bridle th... [ Continue Reading ]