Deuteronomy 29:10-21
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.]
