Deuteronomy 29
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Moses sends for Israel's mercies to remembrance
Verse 1
WEB These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
KJV 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.
TSK the words: de 29:12,21,25, le 26:44,45, 2ki 23:3, jer 11:2,6, jer 34:18, ac 3:25; beside the: de 4:10,13,23, de 5:2,3, ex 19:3-5, ex 24:2-8, jer 31:32, heb 8:9
Verse 2
WEB Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
KJV And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye 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;
TSK Ye have seen all: ex 8:12, ex 19:4, jos 24:5,6, ps 78:43-51, ps 105:27-36
Verse 3
WEB the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:
KJV The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
TSK The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:: de 4:32-35, de 7:18,19, ne 9:9-11
Verse 4
WEB but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
KJV Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
TSK Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.: de 2:30, pr 20:12, isa 6:9,10, isa 63:17, eze 36:26, mt 13:11-15, joh 8:43, joh 12:38-40, ac 28:26,27, ro 11:7-10, 2co 3:15, eph 4:18, 2th 2:10-12, 2ti 2:25, jas 1:13-17
Verse 5
WEB I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.
KJV And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
TSK I have led: de 1:3, de 8:2; your clothes: de 8:4, ne 9:21, mt 6:31,32; and thy shoe: jos 9:5,13, mt 10:10
Verse 6
WEB You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
KJV Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
TSK eaten bread: de 8:3, ex 16:12,35, ne 9:15, ps 78:24,25; neither have: nu 16:14, nu 20:8, 1co 9:25, 1co 10:4, eph 5:18
Verse 7
WEB When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them:
KJV And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
TSK And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:: de 2:24-37, de 3:1-17, nu 21:21-35, nu 32:33-42, ps 135:10-12, ps 136:17-22
Verse 8
WEB and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
KJV And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
TSK And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.: de 3:12,13, nu 32:33
Verse 9
WEB Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
KJV Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
TSK Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.: de 29:1, de 4:6, jos 1:7, 1ki 2:3, ps 25:10, ps 103:17,18, isa 56:1,2,4-7, jer 50:5, lu 11:28, heb 13:20,21
The holy anger on those who flatter themselves in their evil
Verse 10
WEB You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
KJV Ye 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,
TSK Ye 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,: de 4:10, de 31:12,13, 2ch 23:16, 2ch 34:29-32, ne 8:2, ne 9:1,2,38, ne 10:28, joe 2:16,17, re 6:15, re 20:12
Verse 11
WEB your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
KJV Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
TSK stranger: de 5:14, ex 12:38,48,49, nu 11:4; the hewer: jos 9:21-27, ga 3:28, col 3:11
Verse 12
WEB that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;
KJV 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:
TSK thou shouldest: de 5:2,3, ex 19:5,6, jos 24:25, 2ki 11:17, 2ch 15:12-15; into his oath: de 29:14, 2ch 15:12-15, ne 10:28,29
Verse 13
WEB that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
KJV That he may establish thee to day 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.
TSK establish: de 7:6, de 26:18,19, de 28:9; he may be: ge 17:7, ge 26:3,4, ge 28:13-15, ex 6:7, jer 31:31-33, jer 32:38, heb 11:16
Verse 14
WEB Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
KJV Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
TSK Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;: jer 31:31-34, heb 8:7-12
Verse 15
WEB but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day
KJV 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:
TSK also with him: de 5:3, jer 32:39, jer 50:5, ac 2:39, 1co 7:14
Verse 16
WEB (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;
KJV (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
TSK through the nations: de 2:4,9,19,24, de 3:1,2
Verse 17
WEB and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
KJV And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
TSK No cross references.
Verse 18
WEB lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
KJV 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;
TSK among you man: de 11:16,17, de 13:1-15, de 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
Verse 19
WEB and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.”
KJV 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:
TSK this curse: de 29:12, ge 2:17; that he bless: de 17:2, nu 15:30,39, ps 10:4-6,11, ps 49:18, ps 94:6,7, pr 29:1, jer 5:12,13, jer 7:3-11, jer 28:15-17, jer 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: jer 3:17, jer 7:24
Verse 20
WEB Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
KJV 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, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
TSK will not spare: ps 78:50, pr 6:34, isa 27:11, jer 13:14, eze 5:11, eze 7:4,9, eze 8:18, eze 9:10, eze 14:7,8, eze 24:14, ro 8:32, ro 11:21, 2pe 2:4,5; the anger: ps 74:1; his jealousy: ex 20:5, ex 34:14, ps 78:58, ps 79:5, so 8:6, eze 8:3,5, eze 23:25, eze 36:5, na 1:2, zep 1:18, 1co 10:22; smoke: ps 18:8, ps 74:1, heb 12:29; all the curses: de 27:15-26, de 28:15-68; blot out: de 9:14, de 25:19, ex 32:32,33, ps 69:28, eze 14:7,8, re 3:5
Verse 21
WEB Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
KJV 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:
TSK separate: jos 7:1-26, eze 13:9, mal 3:18, mt 24:51, mt 25:32,41,46
The ruin of the Jewish nation
Verse 22
WEB The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;
KJV 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;
TSK No cross references.
Verse 23
WEB and that the whole land of it is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
KJV 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:
TSK brimstone: job 18:15, isa 34:9, lu 17:29, re 19:20; salt: jud 9:45, ps 107:34, jer 17:6, eze 47:11, zep 2:9, lu 14:34,35; like the: ge 14:2, ge 19:24,25, jer 20:16, ho 11:8,9, am 4:11
Verse 24
WEB even all the nations shall say, “Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
KJV Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
TSK Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?: 1ki 9:8,9, 2ch 7:21,22, jer 22:8,9, la 2:15-17, la 4:12, eze 14:23, ro 2:5
Verse 25
WEB Then men shall say, “Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
KJV 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:
TSK Because: isa 47:6, jer 40:2,3, jer 50:7; they have forsaken: 1ki 19:10-14, isa 24:1-6, jer 22:9, jer 31:32, heb 8:9
Verse 26
WEB and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know, and that he had not given to them:
KJV For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
TSK they went: jud 2:12,13, jud 5:8, 2ki 17:7-18, 2ch 36:12-17, jer 19:3-13, jer 44:2-6; gods whom: de 28:64
Verse 27
WEB therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;
KJV And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
TSK all the curses: de 29:20,21, de 27:15-26, de 28:15-68, le 26:14-46, da 9:11-14
Verse 28
WEB and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.”
KJV 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.
TSK rooted them: de 28:25,36,64, 1ki 14:15, 2ki 17:18,23, 2ch 7:20, ps 52:5, pr 2:22, jer 42:10, lu 21:23,24; as it is this day: de 6:24, de 8:18, ezr 9:7, da 9:7
Secret things belong to God
Verse 29
WEB The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
KJV The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
TSK secret: job 11:6,7, job 28:28, ps 25:14, pr 3:32, jer 23:18, da 2:18,19,22, da 2:27-30, da 4:9, am 3:7, mt 13:35, joh 15:15, joh 21:22, ac 1:7, ro 11:33,34, ro 16:25,26, 1co 2:16; revealed: ps 78:2-7, isa 8:20, mt 11:27-30, mt 13:11, joh 20:31, ro 16:26, 2ti 1:5, 2ti 3:16; and to our: de 6:7, de 30:2