Deuteronomy 29:1

CHAPTER XXIX

A recapitulation of God's gracious dealings with Israel, 1-8.

An exhortation to obedience, and to enter into covenant with

their God, that they and their posterity may be established

in the good land, 9-15.

They are to remember the abominations of Egypt, and to avoid

them, 16, 17.

He who hardens his heart, when he hears these curses, shall be

utterly consumed, 18-21.

Their posterity shall be astonished at the desolations that

shall fall upon them, 22, 23;

shall inquire the reason, and shall be informed that the Lord

has done thus to them because of their disobedience and

idolatry, 24-28.

A caution against prying too curiously into the secrets of the

Divine providence, and to be contented with what God has

revealed, 29.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXIX

Verse Deuteronomy 29:1. These are the words of the covenant] This verse seems properly to belong to the preceding chapter, as a widely different subject is taken up at Deuteronomy 29:2 of this; and it is distinguished as the 69th verse in some of the most correct copies of the Hebrew Bible.

Commanded Moses to make] לכרת lichroth, to cut, alluding to the covenant sacrifice which was offered on the occasion and divided, as is explained, Genesis 15:18.

Beside the covenant which he made - in Horeb.] What is mentioned here is an additional institution to the ten words given on Horeb; and the curses denounced here are different from those denounced against the transgressors of the decalogue.