Deu 29 | TSK | STEP | Moses exhorts them to obedience, by the memory of the works they had seen. All are presented before the Lord to enter into his covenant. The great wrath on him that flatters himself in his wickedness. Secret things belong unto God. the words. beside the.

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.

into his oath.

14; 2Ch 15:12-15; Ne 10:28,29

establish.

7:6; 26:18,19; 28:9

he may be.

Ge 17:7; 26:3,4; 28:13-15; Ex 6:7; Jer 31:31-33; 32:38; Heb 11:16

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

also with him.

5:3; Jer 32:39; 50:5; Ac 2:39; 1Co 7:14

through the nations.

2:4,9,19,24; 3:1,2

idols. Heb. dungy gods.

among you man.

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 poisonful herb. Heb. rosh.

this curse.

12; Ge 2:17

that he bless.

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, stubborness.

Jer 3:17; 7:24; *margins

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.

drunkenness to thirst. Heb. the drunken to the thirsty.

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

Eze 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.