Deuteronomy 29:1--33:29
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.]
difficult <06381> [it is not hidden.]
Or as the word {niphlaith} implies, not too wonderful for thee to comprehend or perform; but easily to be acquainted with, and understood, because clearly revealed: neither is it afar off; it was proclaimed in you ears from mount Sinai, and is now proclaimed in the sanctuary: it is not in heaven; for it has been already revealed: neither is it beyond the sea; that you need travel for instruction, as the ancient philosophers did, or seek instruction from men, at immense labour and expense; but the word is very nigh to thee; brought to thy very doors; in thy mouth, and in thy heart; made so familiar as to afford a topic of common discourse, that it might be laid up in the memory and reduced to practice.
cross <05674> [Who shall.]
across ... sea ......... cross ...... side .... sea <03220 05676 05674> [go over the sea.]
very <03966> [very.]
mouth <06310> [mouth.]
love <0157> [to love.]
obey <08104> [to keep.]
aside <03824> [if thine.]
aside <03824> [heart.]
invoke heaven <05749 08064> [I call heaven.]
set <05414> [that I have.]
life .......... choose life <02416 0977> [choose life.]
descendants <02233> [that both thou.]
love <0157> [love.]
loyal <01692> [cleave.]
life <02416> [thy life.]
love ....... obey ..... loyal ............. live ... in <0157 08085 01692 03427> [thou mayest.]
hundred <03967> [I am an.]
The life of Moses, the great prophet of Jehovah and lawgiver of the Jews, was exactly the same in length as the time Noah employed in preaching righteousness to the antediluvian world. These one hundred and twenty years were divided into three remarkable periods. Forty years he lived in Egypt, in the court of Pharaoh, acquiring all the learning and wisdom of the Egyptians (Ac 7:20, 23); forty years he sojourned in Midian, in a state of preparation for his great and important mission (Ac 7:29, 30); and forty years he guided, led, and governed the Israelites under the express direction and authority of God: in all 120 years.
able ... get <03201 03318> [I can no more.]
cross <05674> [Thou shalt not.]
God <0430> [thy God.]
Joshua <03091> [and Joshua.]
[Jesus.]
Lord <03068> [And the Lord.]
commandment <04687> [according.]
strong <02388> [Be strong.]
fear ... tremble <03372 06206> [fear not.]
fail <07503> [he will not fail.]
strong <02388> [Be strong.]
accompany <0935> [for thou must.]
going <01980> [he it is that.]
fail <07503> [he will be.]
Moses <04872> [Moses.]
gave <05414> [delivered.]
priests <03548> [the priests.]
carry <05375> [which bare.]
appear <07200> [to appear.]
place <04725> [in the place.]
read <07121> [thou. shalt read.]
Gather <06950> [Gather.]
<0582> [men.]
hear .... learn <08085 03925> [that they may.]
death <04191> [that thou must die.]
commission <06680> [I may give.]
present ................... themselves <03320> [presented.]
die <07901> [thou shalt.]
die <07901> [sleep. Heb. lie down.]
{Shochaiv,} "lying down:" it signifies to rest, take rest in sleep, and metaphorically, to die. Though much stress cannot be safely laid upon this expression to prove the immortality of the soul, or that the people, in the time of Moses, had a distinct notion of its separate existence; yet is was understood in this sense by Jonathan, who paraphrases the words thus: "Thou shalt lie down in the dust with thy fathers; and thy soul {nishmatoch) shall be laid up in the treasury of the life to come, with thy fathers."
prostitute <02181> [and go a.]
reject .... break <05800 06565> [forsake me.]
break ... covenant <06565 01285> [break my.]
anger <0639> [my anger.]
abandon <05800> [I will forsake.]
hide ... face <06440 05641> [hide my face.]
Though this may allude to the withdrawing of the {Shechinah,} or visible appearance of Jehovah, yet the general meaning of the expression in Scripture is, the withdrawing of his approbation and protection, of which his visible appearance was formerly the sign and pledge.
[befal them. Heb. find them.]
disasters <07451> [Are not these.]
song ................. song <07892> [this song.]
teach ....................... Israelites <03925 01121> [and teach it.]
Put ...... mouths <07760 06310> [put it in their.]
witness <05707> [a witness.]
brought <0935> [when.]
flowing <02100> [floweth.]
eat <0398> [eaten.]
become fat <01878> [waxen fat.]
turn <06437> [then.]
song <07892> [this song.]
A sacred song, appointed to be composed by Moses, doubtless under divine inspiration; which the people were required to learn, and teach to their children from generation to generation.
against <06440> [against. Heb. before. I know.]
have in mind <06213> [go about. Heb. do.]
Joshua <03091> [he gave Joshua.]
take <0935> [shalt bring.]
writing ...... words <01697 03789> [writing the words.]
carried ... ark <0727 05375> [bare the ark.]
beside <06654> [in the side.]
witness <05707> [a witness.]
know <03045> [I know.]
stubbornness <06203 07186> [stiff neck.]
rebelled <04784> [ye have been.]
Gather ....... elders <06950 02205> [Gather unto me.]
heavens ...... witness <08064 05749> [call heaven.]
corrupt yourselves ... turn <07843 05493> [corrupt yourselves.]
Disaster .............. wickedly <07451> [and evil.]
days ... come <03117 0319> [the latter days.]
drop <06201> [drop.]
showers <07241> [as the showers.]
proclaim <07121> [Because.]
acknowledge <03051> [ascribe.]
Rock <06697> [the Rock.]
work <06467> [his work.]
ways <01870> [all his.]
God <0410> [a God.]
unjust <05766> [without.]
unfaithful .............. sin <07843 03971> [They have corrupted themselves. Heb. He hath corrupted to himself.]
sin <03971> [their spot, etc. or, that they are not his children, that is their blot.]
perverse <06141> [a perverse.]
repay <01580> [requite.]
foolish <05036> [O foolish.]
father <01> [thy father.]
[hath brought.]
made .... established <06213 03559> [made thee.]
Remember <02142> [Remember.]
past generations <01755> [many generations. Heb. generation and generation.]
Ask <07592> [ask.]
Most <05945> [Most.]
inheritance <05157> [divided.]
up .... set <05324> [he set.]
Lord's <03068> [the Lord's.]
possession <02256> [lot. Heb. cord.]
found <04672> [found.]
guarded <05437> [led him. or, compassed him. he instructed.]
protected <05341> [he kept.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
foreign <05236> [no strange.]
travel <07392> [ride.]
honey <01706> [honey.]
butter <02529> [Butter.]
Bashan <01316> [of Bashan.]
fat ............ best <02459> [the fat.]
juice <01818> [blood.]
Jeshurun <03484> [Jeshurun.]
kicked <01163> [kicked.]
fat ...... fat <08080> [waxen fat.]
deserted <05203> [then he.]
Rock <06697> [the Rock.]
jealous ...... enraged <07065 03707> [provoked.]
abhorrent <08441> [abominations.]
sacrificed <02076> [sacrificed.]
God <0433> [not to God. or, which were not God.]
gods <0430> [to gods.]
new ...... come along <02319 0935> [to new gods.]
Rock <06697> [the Rock.]
put out of mind <07911> [forgotten.]
Lord <03068> [And when.]
took .... despised ........ enraged <05006 03708> [abhorred them. or, despised.]
sons <01121> [of his sons.]
reject <05641> [I will hide.]
perverse <08419> [a very.]
children <01121> [children.]
jealous ................ jealous <07065> [moved me.]
worthless <01892> [with their vanities.]
jealous ..... enraging ............ jealous ................. enrage <07065 03707> [I will.]
fire <0784> [For a fire.]
burns <03344> [shall burn. or, hath burned. lowest.]
consumes <0398> [shall consume. or, hath consumed.]
<04144> [foundations.]
increase ... disasters <07451 05595> [heap mischiefs.]
them <03615> [spend.]
starved <04198> [burnt.]
plague <07565> [burning heat. Heb. burning coals.]
teeth <08127> [the teeth.]
creatures that crawl <02119> [serpents.]
sword <02719> [sword.]
inside <02315> [within. Heb. from the chambers. destroy. Heb. bereave. the young.]
adversaries <06862> [lest their.]
say <0559> [they should.]
power <03027> [Our hand, etc. or, Our high hand and not the Lord hath done all this.]
wish <03863> [O that.]
comprehend what <0995> [they would.]
one ... chase <07291 0259> [one chase.]
delivered them <03588 04376> [sold them.]
handed <05462> [shut them.]
vine ....... Sodom <05467 01612> [of the vine of Sodom. or, worse than the vine of Sodom, etc.]
grapes ....... grapes <06025> [their grapes.]
poison <02534> [the poison.]
revenge <05359> [To me.]
foot <07272> [their foot.]
day <03117> [for the day.]
rushing <06264> [the things.]
Lord <03068> [For the.]
change <05162> [repent.]
power <03027> [power. Heb. hand. none.]
ate ... best <02459 0398> [eat the fat.]
rise <06965> [let them.]
refuge <05643> [your protection. Heb. an hiding for you.]
[I, even I.]
god <0430> [no god.]
kill <04191> [I kill.]
resist ... power <05337> [neither.]
sharpen <08150> [whet.]
execute <07725> [I will.]
hate <08130> [them that hate.]
arrows <02671> [make mine.]
chief <06546> [revenges.]
The word {par“th,} rendered revenges, a sense in which it never seems to be used, has rendered this passage very obscure. As the word {paira} signifies the hair of the head, both in Hebrew and Arabic, Mr. Parkhurst and others render {mairosh par“th,} "from the hairy head;" but to have this sense, the words should rather have been {mippar“th rosh,} according the Hebrew idiom. The word {far“u,} in Arabic, however, also denotes a prince or chief; and the words may be literally rendered, with the LXX., [apo kephales archonton echthron,] "from the head of the chiefs of the enemies." The hyperbaton, or transposition of words from their grammatical order, is very observable in this verse; the third member forming a continuation of the first, and the fourth of the second.
Cry <07442> [Rejoice. or, Praise his people, ye nations; or, Sing ye.]
O ye nations.
avenge <05358> [avenge.]
take <07725> [render.]
atonement <03722> [will be.]
recited <01696> [spake.]
Joshua <01954> [Hoshea. or, Joshua.]
[A.M. 2553. B.C. 1451. An. Ex. Is. 40. Adar.]
hill country ... Mount <02022> [mountain.]
look <07200> [and behold.]
join ............... joined <0622> [be gathered.]
Aaron <0175> [as Aaron.]
both .... rebelled <04603> [ye trespassed.]
Meribah <04808> [Meribah-Kadesh. or, strife at Kadesh.]
both .... rebelled ......................... respect <04603 06942> [because ye.]
blessing <01293> [the blessing.]
man <0376> [the man.]
came ... Sinai <0935 05514> [came from Sinai.]
ten thousand <07233> [ten thousands.]
fiery <01881 0799> [a fiery law. Heb. a fire of law.]
loves <02245> [he loved.]
holy ones <06918> [all his saints.]
sit <08497> [they sat.]
receiving <05375> [shall receive.]
Moses <04872> [Moses.]
inheritance <04181> [the inheritance.]
king <04428> [king.]
Jeshurun <03484> [Jeshurun.]
bring <0935> [and bring.]
power <03027> [let his hands.]
help <05828> [and be thou.]
Thummim <08550> [Let thy.]
godly <02623> [with thy.]
challenged ... Massah <05254 04532> [prove at.]
said <0559> [Who said.]
seen <07200> [I have not.]
kept <08104> [for they.]
teach <03384> [They shall teach. or, Let them teach, etc.]
offer incense <07760 06988> [they shall put incense. or, let them put incense.]
whole offering <0639 03632> [before thee. Heb. at thy nose. whole.]
goods <02428> [his substance.]
be pleased with <07521> [accept.]
undercut ....... attack <04272> [smite.]
beloved <03039> [The beloved.]
protects ..... time <02653 03117> [cover him.]
Joseph <03130> [Joseph.]
dew <02919> [the dew.]
harvest <04022> [the precious.]
produced <01645> [put forth. Heb. thrust forth. moon. Heb. moons.]
earth <0776> [the earth.]
pleasure <07522> [the good.]
top of ... head <06936> [and upon the top.]
set apart <05139> [separated.]
firstborn <01060> [the firstling.]
horns <07161> [his horns.]
wild ox <07214> [unicorns. Heb. an unicorn. he shall push.]
thousands <07233> [the ten thousands.]
summon peoples <05971 07121> [call the people.]
summon ......... sacrifice <07121 02076 03243> [they shall.]
abundance <03243 08228> [suck of.]
Blessed <01288> [Blessed.]
dwell <07931> [he dwelleth.]
tear <02963> [teareth.]
best <07225> [the first part.]
portion <02513> [a portion.]
set aside <05603> [seated. Heb. cieled. he came.]
Naphtali ..... Naphtali <05321> [O.]
possess <03423> [possess.]
Asher .... Asher ... blessed <01288 0836> [Asher be blessed.]
favored by <07521> [let him be.]
dip <02881> [let him dip.]
bars of your gates <04515> [Thy shoes, etc. or, Under thy shoes shall be iron.]
lifelong <03117> [and as thy.]
God <0410> [none.]
Jeshurun <03484> [Jeshurun.]
rides <07392> [rideth.]
everlasting <06924> [eternal.]
refuge <04585> [refuge.]
eternal <05769> [underneath.]
driven out <01644> [thrust.]
Israel <03478> [Israel.]
fountain <05869> [the fountain.]
heavens <08064> [his.]
joy <0835> [Happy.]
delivered <03467> [saved.]
shield <04043> [the shield.]
sword <02719> [the sword.]
cringe <03584> [found liars. or, subdued.]
trample <01869> [thou shalt.]
