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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: 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. Neither with you...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That be may establish thee this day for a people unto himself, and [that] he may be unto thee a God,.... Which contains the sum and substance of the covenant; see Jeremiah 32:38; as he hath said unto thee, and as he had sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; Deuteronomy 26:17.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath. That is, Moses; for he was ordered to make this covenant with them in the name of the Lord; what promises of good things, or declarations of his mind and will, God would make, Moses was to deliver to them; and what was required of them he would inform them of. Aben Ezra interprets it,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God,.... Who are before specified according to their dignity, age, sex, and station of life; or rather, "but [as] with him that standeth", c. and so with [him] that [is] not here with us this day detained at home by illness and indisposition of body, or by one providence or...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt,.... How long they and their fathers had dwelt there, the number of years they had been in the land, as the Targum of Jonathan, which was upwards of two hundred years; and being a country the inhabitants of which were much given to idolatry, they had seen many of their idols, and much of their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:) Now you have seen how they worshipped idols; you have seen that you may avoid; you have beheld their folly that you may escape...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And ye have seen their abominations and their idols,.... Or, "their abominations, even their idols"; for the same are meant by both: it is common in Scripture to call the idols of the Gentiles abominations, without any other explanation of them; see 1 Kings 11:5; because they are abominable to God, and ought to be so to men: the word for idols has...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Lest there should be among you man or woman, or family, or tribe,.... These words stand in connection with Deuteronomy 29:15, with Deuteronomy 29:16 being in a parenthesis, as may be observed, and show the design of this solemn appearance of the people, and their entering afresh into covenant; which was to prevent their falling into idolatry, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth 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 beareth gall and wormwood; For the worship of false gods is the cause of untold mischief and evil: wherever it is found it is a root that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And it cometh to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse,.... That is, the man before compared to a root bearing bitter herbs, when he should hear the curses pronounced by the law against such persons as himself: that he bless himself in his heart; inwardly pronounce himself blessed, thinking himself secure from the curse of the law, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: For there were some who so hardened themselves against God that they said, “We shall have peace: let us do what we like: let us worship these...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the Lord will not spare him,.... Have no mercy upon him, nor forgive him, being an hardhearted, impenitent, stubborn, and obstinate sinner, as well as guilty of the grossest and most provoking sin, as idolatry is: but then the anger of the Lord, and his jealousy, shall smoke against that man; or, "the nose of the Lord shall smoke" (f);...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, Not light upon him, but lie upon him, rest there and stop there.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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, As a huntsman separates a stag from the herd that he may hunt it all the day, so shall God with any idolater that should come amongst his people with whom he made a covenant that day. Oh, how God hates that anything...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel,.... Unto the evil of punishment, devote and consign him to it, and make him a visible and distinguished mark of his displeasure and vengeance. So some men are righteously separated from others, and preordained unto condemnation, being wicked and ungodly men; for such God...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you,.... Not the next generation, but in future times, in ages to come, at a great distance, even after the destruction of Judea by the Romans; to which Deuteronomy 29:23 seems to refer: and the stranger that shall come from a far land; on trade and business, or for the sake...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone and salt, [and] burning,.... That is, is become exceeding barren, as all such land is where there are sulphureous mines, or salt pits, or burning mountains; not that this would be, or has been the case of the land of Judea in a strict literal sense; only these are expressions made use of to show the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Even all nations shall say,.... For the destruction of this land, and the people of it, would be, as it has been, so very great and awful, and so very remarkable and surprising, that the fame of it would be heard among all the nations of the world, as it has been; who, upon hearing the sad report of it, would ask the following questions: wherefore...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then men shall say,.... The answer that will be returned to the above questions will be this because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers: breakers of covenants with men are always reckoned among the worst of men, see Romans 1:31; and especially breakers of covenant with God, and with such a God as the God of Israel...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them,.... As did all Israel, in the times of Solomon, and the ten tribes under Jeroboam, and other succeeding kings of Israel; and the two tribes in the times of Ahaz, and especially of Manasseh, when they worshipped all the host of heaven; see 1 Kings 11:33; gods whom they knew not; to whom...