Deuteronomy 29:1--30:10
words <01697> [the words.]
covenant ....................... covenant <01285> [beside the.]
seen ..... Lord <07200 03068> [Ye have seen all.]
<03212> [I have led.]
clothing <08008> [your clothes.]
sandals <05275> [and thy shoe.]
eaten ... bread <03899 0398> [eaten bread.]
drunk <08354> [neither have.]
foreigners <01616> [stranger.]
chop <02404> [the hewer.]
may enter <05674> [thou shouldest.]
may enter <05674> [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 curse on those who violated the sacred compact, that they might in like manner be cut asunder. (Ge 15:10.) St. Cyril, in his work against Julian, shows that passing between the divided parts of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other people.
oath <0423> [into his oath.]
affirm <06965> [establish.]
God <0430> [he may be.]
today ............... today <03117> [also with him.]
through ... nations <07130 01471> [through the nations.]
idols <01544> [idols. Heb. dungy gods.]
man <0376> [among you man.]
root <08328> [among you a root.]
poisonous ... bitter fruit <07219 03939> [gall and wormwood. or, a poisonful herb. Heb. rosh.]
oath <0423> [this curse.]
blesses <01288> [that he bless.]
<03588 03212> [though I walk.]
stubborn <08307> [imagination. or, stubborness.]
destroy <05595> [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 hanker for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses.
watered ..... parched <07302 06771> [drunkenness to thirst. Heb. the drunken to the thirsty.]
will ... unwilling ... forgive <014 05545> [will not spare.]
anger <0639> [the anger.]
rage <07068> [his jealousy.]
intense <06225> [smoke.]
curses <0423> [all the curses.]
obliterate <04229> [blot out.]
single <0914> [separate.]
written <03789> [are written. Heb. is written.]
Lord <03068 02470> [which the Lord hath laid upon it. Heb. wherewith the Lord hath made it sick.]
brimstone <01614> [brimstone.]
salt <04417> [salt.]
destruction <04114> [like the.]
abandoned <05800> [Because.]
abandoned <05800> [they have forsaken.]
<03212> [they went.]
gods ..... gods ..... know <0430 03045> [gods whom.]
permit <02505> [whom he had, etc. or, who had not given to them any portion. given. Heb. divided.]
curses <07045> [all the curses.]
uprooted ..... land <05428 0127> [rooted them.]
today <03117> [as it is this day.]
Secret <05641> [secret.]
revealed <01540> [revealed.]
descendants <01121> [and to our.]
things <01697> [it shall come.]
blessings <01293> [the blessing.]
reflect <07725> [thou shalt call.]
Lord <03068> [whither.]
turn .... Lord <07725 03068> [return unto.]
mind <03824> [with all thine heart.]
Lord ......................... he <03068> [then the.]
gather ...... peoples <06908 05971> [gather thee.]
This seems to refer to a more extensive captivity than that which the Jews suffered in Babylon.
distant <07097> [unto.]
Lord <03068> [thence will the.]
As this promise refers to a return from a captivity among all nations, consequently it cannot be exclusively the Babylonish captivity which is intended; and the repossession of their land must be different from that which was consequent on their return from Babylon. Nor at that period could it be said that they were multiplied more than their fathers, or, as the Hebrew imports, made greater than their fathers, when after their return they were tributary to the Persians, and afterwards fell under the power of the Greeks, under whom they suffered much; nor have their hearts, as a nation, yet been circumcised.
cleanse <04135> [will circumcise.]
Lord ................... love <0157 03068> [to love the Lord.]
abundantly successful <03498> [make thee.]
rejoice ....... prosperous ..... rejoiced <07797 02896> [rejoice over thee.]
obey <08085 06963> [hearken unto.]
turn <07725> [turn into.]
