Deu 31 | TSK | STEP | Moses encourages the people. He encourages Joshua. He delivers the law unto the priests to be read in the seventh year to the people. God gives a charge to Joshua; and a song to testify against the people. Moses delivers the book of the law to the Levites to keep. He makes a protestation.

Deuteronomy 31

1 Moses encourages the people.

7 He encourages Joshua.

9 He delivers the law unto the priests to be read in the seventh year to the people.

14 God gives a charge to Joshua;

19 and a song to testify against the people.

24 Moses delivers the book of the law to the Levites to keep.

28 He makes a protestation.

I am an.The life of Moses, the great prophet of Jehovah and lawgiver of the Jews, was exactly the same in length as the time Noah employed in preaching righteousness to the antediluvian world. These one hundred and twenty years were divided into three remarkable periods. Forty years he lived in Egypt, in the court of Pharaoh, acquiring all the learning and wisdom of the Egyptians (Ac 7:20, 23); forty years he sojourned in Midian, in a state of preparation for his great and important mission (Ac 7:29, 30); and forty years he guided, led, and governed the Israelites under the express direction and authority of God: in all 120 years.

34:7; Ex 7:7; Jos 14:10,11; Ps 90:10; Ac 7:23

I can no more.

34:7; Nu 27:17; 2Sa 21:17; 1Ki 3:7

Thou shalt not.

3:26,27; 4:21,22; 32:48-52; Nu 20:12; 27:13,14; Ac 20:25

2Pe 1:13,14

thy God.

9:3; Ge 48:21; Ps 44:2,3; 146:3-6

and Joshua.

7,8,14,23; 3:28; 34:9; Nu 27:18-21; Jos 1:2; 3:7; 4:14; Ac 7:45

Heb 4:8

Jesus.

2:33; 3:3-11,21; 7:2,16; Ex 23:28-31; Nu 21:24-35

And the Lord.

7:2,18

according.

7:23-25; 20:16,17; Ex 23:32,33; 34:12-16; Nu 33:52-56

Be strong.

7,23; 20:4; Jos 1:6,7,9; 10:25; 1Ch 22:13; 28:10,20; 2Ch 32:7

Ps 27:14; Isa 43:1-5; Hag 2:4; Zec 8:13; 1Co 16:13; Eph 6:10

2Ti 2:1

fear not.

1:29; 7:18; 20:1,3,4; Nu 14:9; Ps 27:1; Isa 41:10; 51:12; Lu 12:32

Re 21:8

he will not fail.

4:31; Jos 1:5; 1Ch 28:20; Isa 41:13-17; Heb 13:5

Be strong.

6,23; 1:38; 3:28; Jos 1:6; Da 10:19; Eph 6:10

for thou must.

3; 1:38; 3:28; Joh 1:17

he it is that.

3; 9:3; Ex 13:21,22; 33:14

he will be.

6; Jos 1:5,9; 1Ch 28:20; Isa 8:9,10; 43:1,2; Ro 8:31

Moses.

22-24,28; Nu 33:2; Da 9:13; Mal 4:4; Mr 10:4,5; 12:19; Lu 20:28

Joh 1:17,45; 5:46

delivered.

24-26; 17:18

the priests.

Ho 4:6; Mal 2:7

which bare.

Nu 4:15; Jos 3:3,14-17; 6:12; 1Ki 8:3; 1Ch 15:2,12-15

15:1,2; Le 23:34-43

to appear.

16:16,17; Ex 23:16,17; 34:24; Ps 84:7

in the place.

12:5

thou. shalt read.

Jos 8:34,35; 2Ki 23:2; Ne 8:1-8,13,18; 9:3; Lu 4:16,17; Ac 13:15

Ac 15:21

Gather.

4:10

men.

6:6,7; Ezr 10:1; Ps 19:7-11; Joh 5:39; 2Ti 3:15-17

that they may.

29:29; Ps 34:11-14

6:7; 11:2; Ps 78:4-8; Pr 22:6; Eph 6:4

that thou must die.

2; 34:5; Nu 27:13; Jos 23:14; 2Ki 1:4; Ec 9:5; Isa 38:1

I may give.

23; Nu 27:19,20; Ac 20:28-31; 2Ti 4:1-4

presented.

Ex 34:2; Jos 24:1; 1Sa 10:19; Job 1:6; 2:1; Ro 12:1; Jude 1:24

Ex 33:9,10; 40:38; Ps 99:7

thou shalt.

Ge 25:8; 2Sa 7:12; Isa 57:2; Ac 13:36

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

16,17

this song.

22,30; 32:1-43,44,45

and teach it.

4:9,10; 6:7; 11:19

put it in their.

Ex 4:15; 2Sa 14:3; Isa 51:16; 59:21; Jer 1:9

a witness.

21,26; Eze 2:5; Mt 10:18; Joh 12:48

when.

6:10-12; 7:1; 8:7

floweth.

Ex 3:8,17

eaten.

8:10-14; Ne 9:25,26

waxen fat.

32:15; Ne 9:25,26,35; Ps 17:10; 73:7; 119:70; Jer 5:28; 50:11

Eze 34:16,20; Ho 13:6

then.

16,17

this song.A sacred song, appointed to be composed by Moses, doubtless under divine inspiration; which the people were required to learn, and teach to their children from generation to generation.

against. Heb. before. I know.

Ge 6:5; 8:21; Ps 139:2; Isa 46:10; Eze 38:10,11; Ho 5:3; 13:5,6

Am 5:25,26; Joh 2:24,25; Ac 2:23; 4:28

go about. Heb. do.

9,19

he gave Joshua.

7,8,14; Jos 1:5-9

shalt bring.

3; 3:28; Ac 7:45

writing the words.

9; 17:18

bare the ark.