Deu 31:16-17, 1Sa 2:30, Zec 11:10 | TSK | STEP | thou shalt. 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." and go a. forsake me. break my.

Deuteronomy 31:16-17

thou shalt.

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."

Job 20:11

and go a.

Ex 32:6; 34:15; Le 20:3-6; Jud 2:17-20; Ps 73:27; 106:39

Isa 57:3-8; Jer 3:1-3; Eze 16:15,25-36; 23:5-8,9-21; Ho 2:2-5

Re 17:2-5; 19:2

forsake me.

32:15; Jud 2:12; 10:6,13; Jer 2:11-13

break my.

Le 26:15; Jud 2:20; Jer 31:32

my anger.

29:20; 32:21,22; Jud 2:14,15; Ps 2:12; 90:11

I will forsake.

1Ch 28:9; 2Ch 15:2; Jer 23:33,39; Ho 9:12

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.

32:20; Job 13:24; Ps 27:9; 30:7; 89:46; 104:29; Isa 8:17; 64:7

Eze 39:23,24,29

befal them. Heb. find them.

Ne 9:32; *marg:

Job 34:11

Are not these.

29:24-27; Nu 14:42; Jud 6:13; Isa 63:17