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The description is borrowed from the local features of the Dead Sea
and its vicinity. The towns of the vale of Siddim were fertile and
well watered (compare Genesis 13:10) until devastated by the wrat...
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25. THE REPETITION OF THE COVENANT AND THE REPETITION OF THE CURSE
CHAPTER 29
_ 1. The repetition of the covenant (Deuteronomy 29:1)_
2. The repetition of the curse (Deuteronomy 29:16)
The words of...
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DEUTERONOMY 29:1 belongs, as in the Heb. Bible, to the preceding
chapter. It is the formal ending of the great discourse (Deuteronomy
4:44, Deuteronomy 12-26, Deuteronomy 28). Deuteronomy 29 (except
D...
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_brimstone_, etc.] The prediction is in terms of the surroundings of
the Dead Sea. _Beareth_, lit. _causeth to sprout; grass_better
_herbage_.
_Sodom … Zeboiim_ Amos 4:11; Hosea 11:8; Genesis 14:2;...
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_VER._ 23. _THE WHOLE LAND THEREOF IS BRIMSTONE, AND SALT, AND
BURNING_— Utterly desolate and laid waste: the allusion is to the
destruction of _Sodom and Gomorrah_ by fire and brimstone, and to the
b...
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2. ISRAEL'S COMING WICKEDNESS: THE JUDGMENT OF FUTURE GENERATIONS AND
FOREIGNERS
(Deuteronomy 29:22-29)
22 And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after
you, and the foreigner th...
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_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, WHI...
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EXHORTATIONS AND WARNINGS
In this chapter the covenant is renewed and enforced with a reminder
of God's goodness and the consequences of disobedience....
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Contrast the description of the good land that Jehovah intends His
people to enjoy, Deuteronomy 8:7; Deuteronomy 8:9....
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 29
V1 These are the words of the *covenant. The *LORD ordered Moses to
make it with the *Israel...
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AND THAT THE WHOLE LAND THEREOF IS BRIMSTONE, AND SALT, AND BURNING,
THAT IT IS NOT SOWN, NOR BEARETH, NOR ANY GRASS GROWETH THEREIN. —
Can this be a description of the same country of which it was wr...
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_[Deuteronomy 29:22]_ גָּפְרִ֣ית וָ מֶלַח֮
שְׂרֵפָ֣ה כָל
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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THE PENALTY OF SERVING FALSE GODS
Deuteronomy 29:14
Deuteronomy 29:15 clearly refers to the future generations, who were
included in this solemn act. The word “gall,” Deuteronomy 29:18,
indi
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The fourth discourse of Moses urged the people to be true to the
Covenant, the terms of which had been given and are recorded in the
previous chapter. It is to be carefully remembered that the first
v...
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Of salt. This salt was of a bituminous or sulphureous nature, which
would burn like oil, and was sometimes used in lamps. (Herodotus, ii.
62; Pliny, [Natural History?] ii. 104.) It dried up the moistu...
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The judgments upon Israel, must excite the astonishment and enquiry of
all nations; Wherefore hath the LORD dealt so by his people? How is it
that the glory of all lands, and the distinguished people...
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It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this
book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22.
What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 28 AND 29.
In CHAPTER 28 we have the principles of God's government in the midst
of that people, and the immediate consequences of obedience or
disobedience-c...
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[AND THAT] THE WHOLE LAND THEREOF [IS] BRIMSTONE AND SALT,
[AND] BURNING,.... That is, is become exceeding barren, as all such
land is where there are sulphureous mines, or salt pits, or burning
moun...
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Deuteronomy 29:23 [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 Gomorra...
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_So that the generation_ Hebrew _And the generation:_ for it appears
to be a new paragraph, the sense whereof is, Whenever your wickedness
shall arrive at such a height as to bring upon your nation th...
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1 Moses exhorteth them to obedience, by the memorie of the workes they
haue seene.
10 All are presented before the Lord to enter into his Couenant.
18 The great wrath on him that flattereth himselfe...
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and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning,
that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth there in, the
land thus being utterly desolate, LIKE THE OVERTHROW OF SODOM...
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A SOLEMN CALL TO OBEDIENCE...
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THE CONDITIONAL COVENANT RENEWED
(vs.1-29)
Verse I speaks of a covenant the Lord commanded Moses to make with
Israel in the land of Moab, "Beside the covenant which He made with
them in Horeb." This...
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22-28 Idolatry would be the ruin of their nation. It is no new thing
for God to bring desolating judgments on a people near to him in
profession. He never does this without good reason. It concerns u...
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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 Ez
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This chapter closes the second grand division of our book. In it we
have a most solemn appeal to the conscience of the congregation. It is
what we may term the summing up and practical application of...
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Deuteronomy 29:23 land H776 brimstone H1614 salt H4417 burning H8316
sown H2232 (H8735) bear H6779 (H8686)
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THE CURSE THAT WILL COME ON THE WHOLE NATION FOR UNCHECKED EVIL AND
THOSE WHO WILL WITNESS AGAINST THEM (DEUTERONOMY 29:22).
But if he was allowed to go unchecked it was not only he but the whole
nat...
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CONTENTS: Introductory words to the Palestinian covenant.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: We are bound in gratitude as well as duty and faithfulness
to keep the words of the solemn covenant of G...
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Deuteronomy 29:1. _The words of the covenant;_ from _co, con,_ or
_com;_ a social prefix; and _venio,_ to come; the coming of two
parties into one compact. The vendor gets the best terms he can, and
t...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—The discourse is continued—the subject of that is
the covenant of Israel with God—its privileges conferred and
obligations imposed. _Besides_ (Deuteronomy 29:1), not a new covenant,
bu...
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EXPOSITION
RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT IN THE PLAINS OF MOAB. (Deuteronomy 29-30.)
The first verse of this chapter is placed in the Hebrew text at the
end of Deuteronomy 28:1; but in the LXX. and Vulgate...
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Chapter twenty-nine, God continues with this covenant.
These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to
make with the children of Israel. And Moses called all Israel, and
said un...
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Amos 4:11; Ezekiel 47:11; Genesis 14:2; Genesis 19:24; Genesis 19:25;...
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Salt and burning — Is burnt up and made barren, as with brimstone
and salt....