1-10 Great mercies promised unto the penitent 11-14 The commandment is manifest 15-20 Death and life are set before them

it shall come De 4:30 Le 26:40-46

the blessing De 30:15,19 11:26-28 27:1-28:65 29:18-23 Le 26:1-46

thou shalt call De 4:29 1Ki 8:47,48 Isa 46:8 Eze 18:28 Lu 15:17

whither Ge 4:14 Jer 8:3

2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

return unto De 4:28-31 Ne 1:9 Isa 55:6,7 La 3:32,40 Ho 3:5 6:1,2 14:1-3 Joe 2:12,13 Zec 12:10 2Co 3:16 1Jo 1:9

with all thine heart De 6:5 13:3 1Ch 29:9,17 Ps 41:12 119:80 Jer 3:10 4:14 29:13 Eph 6:24

3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

then the Ps 106:45-47 126:1-4 Isa 56:8 Jer 29:,14 31:10 La 3:22,32 Ro 11:23 11:26,31

gather thee This seems to refer to a more extensive captivity than that which the Jews suffered in Babylon. Ezr 1:1-4 Ps 147:2 Jer 32:37 Eze 34:12,13 36:24 Zec 8:7,8

4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:

unto De 28:64 Ne 1:9 Isa 11:11-16 Eze 39:25-29 Zep 3:19,20

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.

5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

will circumcise De 10:16 Jer 4:4 9:26 32:39 Eze 11:19,20 36:26,27 Joh 3:3-7 Ro 2:28,29 11:26 2Co 5:17 Col 2:11

to love the Lord De 6:5 Ex 20:6 Mt 22:27 Ro 8:28 1Co 8:3 Jas 1:12 2:5 1Jo 4:7 4:16-19 5:3,4

7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

Nu 24:14 Ps 137:7-9 Isa 10:12 14:1-27 Jer 25:12-16,29 50:33,34 51:24-26,34-37 La 3:54-66 4:21,22 Eze 25:3,6,8,12,15 Am 1:3,6,9,11 Am 1:13 Ob 1:10 Zec 12:3

8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.

De 30:2 Pr 16:1 Isa 1:25,26 Jer 31:33 32:39,40 Eze 11:19,20 36:27 37:24 Ro 11:26,27 Eph 2:16 Php 2:13

9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

make thee De 28:4,11-14 Le 26:4,6,9,10

rejoice over thee Isa 62:5 65:19 Jer 32:41 33:9 Zep 3:17 Lu 15:6-10,32 Joh 15:11

10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

hearken unto De 30:2,8 Isa 55:2,3 1Co 7:19

turn into Ne 1:9 La 3:40,41 Eze 18:21 33:11,14,19 Ac 3:19 26:20

11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.

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. Ps 147:19,20 Isa 45:19 Ro 16:25,26 Col 1:26,27

12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

Pr 30:4 Joh 3:13 Ro 10:6,7

13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

Who shall Ac 10:22,33 16:9 Ro 10:14,15

go over the sea Pr 2:1-5 3:13-18 8:11 16:6 Mt 12:42 Joh 6:27 Ac 8:27

14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

very Eze 2:5 33:33 Lu 10:11,12 Joh 5:46 Ac 13:26,38-41 28:23-28 Heb 2:1-3

mouth Jer 12:2 Eze 33:31 Mt 7:21 Ro 10:8-10

15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

De 30:1,19 11:26 28:1 32:47 Mt 16:16 Joh 3:16 Ga 3:13,14 5:6 1Jo 3:23 5:11,12

16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

to love De 30:6 Mt 22:37,38 1Co 7:19 1Jo 5:2,3

to keep Joh 14:21

17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

if thine De 29:18-28 1Sa 12:25 Joh 3:19-21

heart De 17:17 1Ki 11:2 Pr 1:32 14:14 2Ti 4:4 Heb 3:12 12:25

18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

De 8:19,20 31:29 Jos 23:15,16 Isa 63:17,18

19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

I call heaven (see note on 4:26) De 31:28 32:1 Isa 1:2 Jer 2:12,13 22:29,30 Mic 6:1,2 1Ti 5:21

that I have De 20:15 11:26

choose life Jos 24:15-22 Ps 119:30,111,173 Pr 1:29 8:36 Isa 56:4 Lu 10:42

that both thou Jer 32:39 Ac 2:39

20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

love De 30:6,16 10:12 11:22

cleave De 4:4 10:20 Jos 23:8 Ac 11:23 Ro 12:9

thy life Ps 27:1 30:5 36:9 66:9 Joh 11:25,26 14:6 17:3 Ac 17:25,28 Ga 2:20 Col 3:3,4 Re 21:6 22:1,17

thou mayest De 4:40 5:16 11:9 12:10