Deuteronomy
29:1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the
covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
It was the
same covenant, just reiterated
some 40 years later; this verse should be the last verse of the previous
chapter where what Moses was saying begun in chapter 1 and ended in chapter
28; then Moses continues on in verse 2 of this chapter 29; Concise
Bible Dictionary:."Horeb
was a mount closely connected with Sinai
and embraces the range of mountains lying about 28° 30' N, between
the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Akaba, whereas Sinai is one of the mountain
peaks. Horeb was called ‘the mountain of God. It was where the Creator
met and talked with Moses and where He made a covenant with ancient Israel.
Near here also the infamous
golden calf was set up":.Exodus
32:1-8.
Deuteronomy
29:2 And Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them, You 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;
Deuteronomy
29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes
are not waxen old.(not
worn out).upon you and your
shoe is not waxen old upon your foot.
Deuteronomy
29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant and do them, that you
may prosper in all that you do.
Deuteronomy
29:10-11 You 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, your little ones, your wives and the stranger that is in your
camp.(note
how God doesn't cut anyone out if they too are in agreement),
from the hewer of your wood unto the drawer of your water.
Deuteronomy
29:12 That you should enter into covenant with the LORD your God and
into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this day.
Deuteronomy
29:13 That he may establish thee today 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.
Deuteronomy
29:14,15 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
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.
Deuteronomy
29:16 For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt and how we
came through the nations which ye passed by.
Deuteronomy
29:17 And ye have seen their abominations and their
idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them.
Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you
man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns 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 bears gall.and
wormwood;
Deuteronomy
29:18 Lest there should be among you man or woman or family or tribe,
whose heart turns 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 bears
gall.(original
'hemlock' aka wormwood,
a bitter herb with one type of it being a poisonous herb; this would be
likened to the low
consciousness attitude of the majority
of mankind).and wormwood.(dissatisfied
and disgruntled);
Deuteronomy
29:19 And it come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that
he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace.(Jeremiah
6:14), though I walk in the imagination of mine heart.(Genesis
6:5), to add drunkenness to thirst.
Deuteronomy
29:20-28 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD
and his jealousy.(Exodus
34:14).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. 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, 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 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. Even all nations shall say, Wherefore
hath the LORD done thus unto this land? What meaneth the heat of this great
anger? 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. For they went and served other gods and
worshipped them, gods whom they knew not and whom he had not given unto
them. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring
upon it all the curses that are written in this book 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.
Deuteronomy
29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God.(Job
33:13), but those things which are revealed.(Daniel
2:22).belong unto us and
to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.(speaking
here of the Old Testament law which is now
defunct)..(Job
38:4).(?)
Deuteronomy
30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon
you.('thanks'
to the decision
the first man Adam made), the blessing and the curse, which
I have set before thee and you shall call them to mind among all the nations,
whither the LORD thy God has driven thee,
Deuteronomy
30:2,3 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, 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.(bringing
back the lost soul).
Deuteronomy
30:4 If any of you be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven,
from thence will the LORD your God gather you and from thence will he fetch
you.(Nehemiah
1:9)..(?)
Deuteronomy
30:5-9 And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which thy
fathers possessed and thou shalt possess it and he will do thee good and
multiply thee above thy fathers. 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. And the LORD thy God
will put all these curses upon thine enemies and on them that hate thee,
which persecuted thee. And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the
LORD and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. 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.
Deuteronomy
30:10 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.
Deuteronomy
30:11-18 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is
not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 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? 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? But the word is very nigh unto you, in
your mouth and in thy heart,
that thou may do it. See, I have set before thee this day life and good
and death and evil.(*),
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. But if thine heart turn
away, so that thou wilt not hear.(Numbers
14:43-45), but shalt be drawn away and worship other
gods and serve them; 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.
Deuteronomy
30:19 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 you and your seed may live.
The ancients
as they grew in number, still being in the realm
of low consciousness, instead of choosing
life, chose the way to no good by choosing to follow the
pagan practices of the nations around them; time
and time again God tried to lead them straight and they would again
drift off from God; they just didn't
have the heart for anything better, even though they wanted the better
life, they just could not make themselves adhere
to it.
Deuteronomy
30:20 That you may love the LORD your God and that you may obey his
voice and that you may cleave unto him, for he is your life and the length
of your days, that you may dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto
your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and
to Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy
31:6 Be strong and of a good courage.(2Chronicles
19:11), fear not, nor be afraid of them, for the LORD
thy God, he it is that does go with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake
you..(Hebrews
13:5)
Deuteronomy
31:9 And Moses wrote this law
and delivered it unto the
priests the sons of Levi,
which bare the
ark of the covenant of the LORD and unto all the elders of Israel.
Deuteronomy
31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, You shall sleep with thy fathers
and this people will rise up and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers
of the land, whither they go to be among them and will forsake me and break
my covenant which I have made with them.
Deuteronomy
31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day and I
will forsake them and I
will hide my face from them and they shall be devoured and many
evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that
day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?.(Jeremiah
44:18,22)
Deuteronomy
31:18 And I will surely hide
my face in that day for all the evils.(Jeremiah
16:12).which they shall
have wrought, in that they are turned unto other
gods.
Deuteronomy
31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware
unto their fathers, that flows with milk and honey and they shall have
eaten and filled themselves and waxen fat, then will they turn unto other
gods and serve them and provoke me and break my covenant..(verse
shows what the ordinary
human nature is like before turning
to God; but for the ancients here, their on
and off life with God was like a yo-yo)
Deuteronomy
31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen
them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness, for it shall
not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed, for I know their imagination.(*).which
they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which
I sware.
Deuteronomy
31:23 And he gave Joshua the son
of Nun a charge and said, Be strong and of a good courage, for you shall
bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them and
I will be with you.(words
'and I will be with thee', not in original, why?).
Deuteronomy
31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the
words of this law in a book, until they were
finished,
Deuteronomy
31:25 That Moses commanded the
Levites,
which bare the ark
of the covenant of the LORD,
saying,
Deuteronomy
31:26 Take this book of the law.(was
on two tables of stone:.1Kings
8:9).and put it in the side
of the ark
of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness
against thee.
Deuteronomy
31:27 For I know thy rebellion and thy stiff neck. Behold, while I
am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD
and how much more after my death?.(Moses
was saying this about the people he had led out of Egypt and dragged through
the wilderness for forty years and now were about to across the river Jordan
into the land God had promised them:.verses
16-20)
Deuteronomy
32:3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD. Ascribe
you greatness unto our God..(God's
greatness)
Deuteronomy
32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect.(Ephesians
2:10), for all his ways are judgment.(fair
justice); a God of truth and without iniquity, just and
right is he.
God never does
anything to you or your life that's not good.in
the long run.(example
of Job's life), as long
as we are alert enough as to why negatives
are affecting us in
the first place:.Romans
8:28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
Deuteronomy
32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of
his children.(because
they became corrupt, they were not
really God's children, so God did something about it to help, that
took
them out of the equation). They are a perverse and crooked
generation.
Deuteronomy
32:6,7 Do you thus requite the LORD.(is
this what you give back to God?), O foolish people and unwise?
Is not he your father that has bought you? Has he not made you and established
you? Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father and he will show you and your elders and they will tell
you.
Deuteronomy
32:8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when
he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according
to the number of the
children of Israel..(*)
Deuteronomy
32:9,10 For the LORD'S portion is his people. Jacob
is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land and in the
waste howling wilderness. He led him about. He instructed him. He kept
him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy
32:11 As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads
abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings.
Deuteronomy
32:12,13 So when the LORD alone did lead him, there was no strange
god with them. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that they
might eat the increase of the fields and he made him to suck honey out
of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock.
Deuteronomy
32:14 Butter of kine and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs and rams
of the breed of Bashan.(Amos
4:1).and
goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat and thou didst drink the pure blood
of the grape.
Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun
waxed fat and kicked. You are waxen fat, you are grown thick, you are covered
with fatness. Then he forsook God which made him and lightly esteemed the
Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy
32:15 But Jeshurun.(spelt
'Jesurun' in Isaiah 44:2; comprised
with.Easton's
Dictionary:.Jeshurun
was a poetical
name, a token of affection name for Israel,
meaning 'the dear upright people';
comprised
from Barnes
Notes: the name describes not the character which belonged to
physical
Israel, but that to which Israel was called to become, which calling
they just could not answer because their
heart was just not with it).waxed
fat.(Matthew
Henry's Concise Commentary:."They
indulged their appetites as if they had nothing to do but to make provision
for the flesh to fulfil its lusts. Those who make a god of themselves and
a god of their bellies, in pride and lewdness and cannot bear to be told
of it, by it forsake God and show they esteem him lightly").and
kicked.(comprised
with Matthew
Poole's Commentary: 'they kicked like well-fed cattle do {let's
go out on the town for a wild time}; he grew insolent
and rebellious against God'; comprised with.Adam
Clarke's Commentary:.'not
only did theyrevolt from God, but actually fought against him, like a full
fed horse who not only will not bear the harness but breaks away from his
master'). You art waxen fat. Thou art grown
thick. Thou art covered with fatness. Then he forsook God which made him
and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy
32:16 They provoked
him to jealousy.(Exodus
34:14).with
strange
gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
Deuteronomy
32:17 They sacrificed unto devils.(2Chronicles
11:15), not to God; to gods whom
they knew not, to new
gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.(their
forefathers
knew better and that it was just so much crap
to invent and make a god out of materials {Psalms
106:39} formed with one's hands and then to worship it and call their
pagan.religion
based on Baal
with some new name:.Jeremiah
10:3,4; 7:8-10).
Deuteronomy
32:18 Of the Rock.(1Corinthians
10:2-4).that
begat thee you are unmindful and have forgotten God that formed you.
Deuteronomy
32:19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking
of his sons and of his daughters.
Deuteronomy
32:20 And he said, I will hide
my face from them, I will see what their end shall be, for they are
a very froward
generation, children in whom is no faith.
Deuteronomy
32:21 They have moved
me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to
anger with their vanities and I will move them to jealousy with those which
are not a people.(of
God). I will provoke them to anger
with a foolish nation..(sent
them time and time
again into captivity by nations that didn't believe they were being
used by God to do this, as subjugation
seems natural to low consciousness people)
Deuteronomy
32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger and shall burn unto the lowest
hell and shall consume the earth with her increase and set on fire the
foundations of the mountains.
Deuteronomy
32:23-26 I will heap mischiefs upon them. I will spend mine arrows
upon them. They shall be burnt with hunger and devoured with burning heat
and with bitter destruction. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon
them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword without and terror
within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also
with the man of gray hairs. I said, I would scatter them into corners,
I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men.
Deuteronomy
32:27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their
adversaries should behave themselves strangely and lest they should say,
Our hand is high and the LORD has not done all this.(on
our behalf).
Deuteronomy
32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding
in them.
Deuteronomy
32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they
would consider their latter end!
Deuteronomy
32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their
end shall be. For they are a very froward
generation, children in whom is no faith.
Deuteronomy
32:30 How should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight,
except their Rock.(1Corinthians
10:4).had sold them and
the LORD had shut them up?.(JPS
Translation has it:."How
should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight, except
their Rock had given them over and the LORD had delivered them up?").(*)
Deuteronomy
32:35 To me belongs vengeance.(how?.Romans
12:19).and recompence;
their foot shall slide in due time. For the day of their calamity
is at hand and the things.(what
things?).that shall come
upon them make haste.(they
come quickly)
Vengeance or
avenging, being the action occurring
for the purpose of recompensing,
requiting.
Deuteronomy
32:39 See now that I, even I, am he and there is no god with me. I
kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. Neither is there any that can
deliver out of my hand.
Deuteronomy
33:1 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed
the children of Israel before his death.
Deuteronomy 33:2 And he said, The LORD came from
Sinai and rose up from Seir unto them. He shined forth from mount Paran
and he came with ten thousands of saints from his right hand went a fiery
law for them.
Deuteronomy
33:2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai
and rose up from Seir unto them. He shined forth from mount Paran.(Paran
is now called 'et Tih', it lies between Kadesh and Sinai).and
he came with ten thousands of saints.(original
for word 'saints'
here and in verse 3 below is 'holy', that is, here meaning 'holy ones',
those of the family
of wholeness; elsewhere throughout the Old and New Testament the word
'saint'
is translated as 'holy').from
his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Deuteronomy
33:3,4 Yea, he loved the people. All his saints are in your hand and
they sat down at your feet. Every one shall receive of your words. Moses
commanded us a law.(became
known as the Mosaic Law), even
the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
Deuteronomy
33:12 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell
in safety by him and the LORD shall cover him all the day long and he shall
dwell between his shoulders.
Deuteronomy
33:17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns
are like the horns of unicorns.
With them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth and
they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
Deuteronomy
33:25. Your shoes shall be iron and brass and as your days, so shall
your strength be.
Deuteronomy
33:27 The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are His everlasting
arms.(that
is, God upholds
you; underneath you are His arms, holding you, carrying you, as you would
carry a precious baby). And he shall thrust out the enemy
from before you and shall say, Destroy them.
Deuteronomy
33:29 Happy are you, O Israel.(who's
Israel today?). Who is like unto you, O people saved
by the LORD who is the shield of your help and is the sword of your excellency!
Your enemies shall be found liars unto you.(enemies
here are those having led you with information that did you no good).and
you shall tread upon their high places.(you'll
rise above the garbage thinking that they hold high in their minds as the
way to live by).
Deuteronomy
34:1,2 And Moses went up from
the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that
is over against Jericho.('and
the walls came tumbling
down'). And the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, unto
Dan, And all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and all the
land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
Deuteronomy
34:3 And the south and the plain of the valley of Jericho,
the city of palm trees, unto Zoar..(Joshua
1:3,4)
Deuteronomy
34:4,5 And the LORD said unto him, This is the
land which I sware unto Abraham,
unto Isaac and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto your seed. I
have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over thither.(why?).
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according
to the word of the LORD.
Deuteronomy
34:6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against
Bethpeor, but no man knows of his sepulchre
unto this day.
Creator-God
took Moses body and buried it, but that was only his physical body; Creator
did the same with Enoch and Elijah;
and where are
they now?)
Deuteronomy
34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died. His
eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Deuteronomy
34:8,9 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab
thirty days. So the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had
laid his hands upon him and the children of Israel hearkened unto him and
did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy
34:10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses,
whom the LORD knew face to face.(not
face to face, but in each other's presence).
Deuteronomy
34:11,12 In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him
to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servant and to all
his land, And in all that mighty hand and in all the great terror which
Moses showed in the sight of all Israel.
