1-9 Moses exhorts them to obedience, by the memory of the works they had seen 10-17 All are presented before the Lord to enter into his covenant 18-28 The great wrath on him that flatters himself in his wickedness 29 Secret things belong unto God

the words De 29:12,21,25 Le 26:44,45 2Ki 23:3 Jer 11:2,6 34:18 Ac 3:25

beside the De 4:10,13,23 5:2,3 Ex 19:3-5 24:2-8 Jer 31:32 Heb 8:9

2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

Ye have seen all Ex 8:12 19:4 Jos 24:5,6 Ps 78:43-51 105:27-36

3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

De 4:32-35 7:18,19 Ne 9:9-11

4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

De 2:30 Pr 20:12 Isa 6:9,10 63:17 Eze 36:26 Mt 13:11-15 Joh 8:43 12:38-40 Ac 28:26 Ro 11:7-10 2Co 3:15 Eph 4:18 2Th 2:10-12 2Ti 2:25 Jas 1:13-17

5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

I have led De 1:3 8:2

your clothes De 8:4 Ne 9:21 Mt 6:31,32

and thy shoe Jos 9:5,13 Mt 10:10

6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.

eaten bread De 8:3 Ex 16:12,35 Ne 9:15 Ps 78:24,25

neither have Nu 16:14 20:8 1Co 9:25 10:4 Eph 5:18

7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:

De 2:24-37 3:1-17 Nu 21:21-35 32:33-42 Ps 135:10-12 136:17-22

8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

De 3:12,13 Nu 32:33

9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

De 29:1 4:6 Jos 1:7 1Ki 2:3 Ps 25:10 103:17,18 Isa 56:1,2,4-7 Jer 50:5 Lu 11:28 Heb 13:20,21

10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

De 4:10 31:12,13 2Ch 23:16 34:29-32 Ne 8:2 9:1,2,38 10:28 Joe 2:16,17 Re 6:15 20:12

11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

stranger De 5:14 Ex 12:38,48,49 Nu 11:4

the hewer Jos 9:21-27 Ga 3:28 Col 3:11

12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

thou shouldest De 5:2,3 Ex 19:5,6 Jos 24:25 2Ki 11:17 2Ch 15:12-15

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 cursed on those who violated the sacred compact, that they might in like manner be cut asunder. Ge 15:10

Cyril, in his work against Julian, show that passing between the divided parts of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other people.

into his oath De 29:14 2Ch 15:12-15 Ne 10:28,29

13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

establish De 7:6 26:18,19 28:9

he may be Ge 17:7 26:3,4 38:13-15 Ex 6:7 Jer 31:31-33 32:38 Heb 11:16

14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

Jer 31:31-34 Heb 8:7-12

15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

also with him De 5:3 Jer 32:39 50:5 Ac 2:39 1Co 7:14

16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

through the nations De 2:4,9,19,24 3:1,2

17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

idols [heb] dungy gods

18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

among you man De 11:16,17 13:1-15 17:2-7 Heb 3:12

among you a root Jer 9:15 Ho 10:4 Am 6:12 Ac 8:23 Heb 12:15

gall and wormwood. or, a poisonous herb [heb] rosh

19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

this curse De 29:12 Ge 2:17

that he bless De 17:2 Nu 15:30,39 Ps 10:4-6,11 49:18 94:6,7 Pr 29:1 Jer 5:12,13 7:3-11 28:15-17 44:16 17:27 Eze 13:16,22 Eph 5:6

though I walk Nu 15:30 Ec 11:9 Ro 1:21 2Co 10:5 Eph 4:17

imagination. or, stubbornest Jer 3:17 7:24

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 pander for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses.

drunkenness to thirst [heb] the drunken to the thirsty

20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

will not spare Ps 78:50 Pr 6:34 Isa 27:11 Jer 13:14 Eze 5:11 7:4,9 8:18 9:10 14:7,8 24:14 Ro 8:32 11:21 2Pe 2:4,5

the anger Ps 74:1

his jealousy Ex 20:5 34:14 Ps 78:58 79:5 So 8:6 Eze 8:3,5 23:25 36:5 Na 1:2 Zep 1:18 1Co 10:22

smoke Ps 18:8 74:1 Heb 12:29

all the curses De 27:15-26 28:15-68

blot out De 9:14 25:19 Ex 32:32,33 Ps 69:28 Eze 14:7,8 Re 3:5

21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

separate Jos 7:1-26 Eze 13:9 Mal 3:18 Mt 24:51 25:32,41,46

are written [heb] is written

22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;

which the Lord hath laid upon it. [heb] wherewith the Lord hath made it sick.

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 Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

brimstone Job 18:15 Isa 34:9 Lu 17:29 Re 19:20

salt Jud 9:45 Ps 107:34 Jer 17:6 Eze 47:11 Zep 2:9 Lu 14:34,35

like the Ge 14:2 19:24,25 Jer 20:16 Ho 11:8,9 Am 4:11

24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

1Ki 9:8,9 2Ch 7:21,22 Jer 22:8,9 La 2:15-17 4:12 Eze 14:23 Ro 2:5

25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

Because Isa 47:6 Jer 40:2,3 50:7

they have forsaken 1Ki 19:10-14 Isa 24:1-6 Jer 22:9 31:32 Heb 8:9

26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

they went Jud 2:12,13 5:8 2Ki 17:7-18 2Ch 36:12-17 Jer 19:3-13 44:2-6

gods whom De 28:64

whom he had, etc. or, who had bit given to them any portion
given [heb] divided

27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

all the curses De 29:20,21 27:15 28:15 Le 26:14 Da 9:11-14

28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

rooted them De 28:25,36,64 1Ki 14:15 2Ki 17:18,23 2Ch 7:20 Ps 52:5 Pr 2:22 Jer 42:10 Lu 21:23,24

as it is this day De 6:24 8:18 Ezr 9:7 Da 9:7

29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

secret Job 11:6,7 28:28 Ps 25:14 Pr 3:32 Da 2:18,19,22,27-30 4:9 Am 3:7 Mt 13:35 Joh 15:15 21:22 Ac 1:7 Ro 11:33,34 16:25,26 1Co 2:16

revealed Ps 78:2-7 Isa 8:20 Mt 11:27-30 13:11 Joh 20:31 Ro 16:26 2Ti 1:5 3:16

and to our De 6:7 30:2