Before 11 Beware that thou forget not the CHRIST LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: och, 23. 47. & Prov. 39. 9. pl Cor. 4. 7. q Ps. 106, 21. rla. (3. 12, 13, 14. Jer. 2. 6. ■ Num. 21. 6. Hos. 13. 5. +Num. 20. 11. a ver. 3. Heb. 12. 11. y ch. 9. 4. 12° Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14 P Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with "manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, Jer. 21.5, 6. to do thec good at thy latter end; 17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. 18 But thou shalt remember the Prov. 10. 22. LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers as it is this day. Hos. 2. 8. ach. 7. 8, 12. bch. 4. 26, & 30. 18. 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, bI testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD Dan.9.11,12. destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. ach. 11. 31. Josh. 3.16, & 4. 19. ch, 4. 38. & 7.1. & 11.23. ach. I. 23. d Num. 13,22, 28, 32, 33. e ch. 31. 3. Josh. 3. 11. fch. 4. 21 Heb. 12. 29. gch. 7. 23. h Ex. 23. 31. ch, 7, 24. 1 ch. 8. 17. Rom. 11. 6, 20. CHAPTER IX. HEAR, O Israel: Thou art to several rebellions of Israel. Before 1451. cast them out from before thee, say- k Gen. 15. 16. 25. 51 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost 1Tit. 3. 5. thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform "the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art "a stiffnecked people. 7 T Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebel-. lious against the LORD. m Gen 12. 7. & 13. 15 & 15. 7. & 17. 8. & 26. 4. & 28. 13. 10 And the LORD delivered unto Ex. 31 18. me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words which the LORD spake with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, tin the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. t Ex. 19. 17. & u Ex. 32. 7. 12 And the LORD said unto me, "Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are * quickly turned aside out of the xch. 31. 29. 2 A people great and tall, d the chil-way which I commanded them; they dren of the Anakim, whom thou have made them a molten image. knowest, and of whom thou hast 13 Furthermore the LORD spake y Ex. 32. 9. heard say, Who can stand before the unto me, saying, I have seen this children of Anak! people, and, behold, "it is a stiff-ver. 6. necked people: 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a fconsuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: hso shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee. 4 i Speak not thou in thine heart, 1 Cor. 4. 4, 7. after that the LORD thy God hath Rebellions of Israel. 1451. DEUTERONOMY. Before 16 And fI looked, and, behold, ye CHRIST had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. fx. 32, 19. g Ex. 31. 28. Pa. 106, 23. h Ex.32.10,11. 33. 17. ch. 10 10. Ps. 106. 23. 17 And I took the two tables, and 1 The two tables restored. CHAPTER X. that time the LORD said unto 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 3 And I made an ark of dshittim Ex. 32. 14. &stroy you. But the LORD heark- k Ex. 32. 20. Is. 31. 7. I Nam. 11. 1, 3. 5. m Ex. 17. 7. n Num. 11.4. 31. 21. And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. 22 And at Taberah, and at m Massah, and at "Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 Likewise when the LORD sent o Num, 13. 3. you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and Pye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. & 14. 1 p Ps. 106. 24, 25. q ch. 31. 27. r ver. 18. ■ Ex. 32, 11, &o. t Gen. 41. 57. 1 Sam. 14.25. a Ex. 32. 12. Num. 14. 16. ch. 1. 20. Noh. 1. 10. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights. as I fell down at the first because the LORD had said he would destroy you. 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are thy people 1 Kings 8.51. and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm. Before CHRIST 1451. 1491. a Ex. 34. 1, 2 b Ex. 25. 10. Ex.25.16,21. dEx. 25. 6,10. +Heb. words. 4 And fhe wrote on the tables, ac-fEx. 34. 28. cording to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, hin the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. 5 And I turned myself and icame down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; land there they be, as the LORD commanded me. ch. 9. 10. & 18. 16. iEx. 34, 29. k Ex. 40. 20. 11 Kings 8. 9. of mNum. 33. 6 T And the children of Israel took 31. n Num. 33.30. o Num. 20.28. & 33, 38. 33. 7 PFrom thence they journeyed pNum. 33.32, 8T At that time the LORD separa-Num. 3.6.& 24. ch. 18. 1. 2. Es. 41, 28. 9" Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Num.18.20, LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him. 10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD Or. former hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee. 11And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. An exhortation to obedience Before DEUTERONOMY. I command thee this day for thy CHRIST good? 1451. e ch. 6. 24. f1 Kings 8.27. P. 115. 16.& 148. 4. Gen. 11. 19. Ex. 19. 5. heh. 4. 37. iSee Lev. 28. 41. ch. 30. 6. Jer. 4. 4. Rom. 2. 28, 29 Col. 2. 11. kch. 9. 6, 13. 1Josh. 22. 22. Ps. 136. 2. Dan 2. 47. & 11. 36. m Rev. 17 11 & 19. 16. n ch. 7. 21. o2 Chr. 19. 7. Job 34, 19. Acta 10. 31. Rom. 2.11. Gal. 2. 6 Eph 6. 9. Col. 3, 25, 1 Pet. 1. 17. PP. 68. 5. & 146. 9. 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens 1s the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. 16 Circumcise therefore ithe foreskin of your heart, and be no more k stiffnecked. 17 For the LORD your God is 1 God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, "a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: 18 PHe doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God: him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. 21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these Lev. 19. 33. great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. 31. rch. 6. 13. Matt. 4. 10. Luke 4. 8. 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten perch. 11. 22, & sons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heav 13. 4. t Ps. 63. 11. u Ex. 15. 2. en for multitude. Ps. 22 3. Jer. 17 14. x1 Sam. 12. 24. 2 Sam. 7. 23. P. 106 21. 23. y Gen. 46. 27. Ex. 1. 5. Acts 7. 14. Gen. 15. 5. ch. 1. 10 & 28. 62. ach. 10. 12, & 30. 16, 20. b Zech. 3. 7. c ch. 8. 5. d ch. 5. 24. ech. 7. 19. fPa 78. 12, & 135, 9. g Ex. 14. 27, 28. & 15.9, 10. Pa. 106. 11. CHAPTER XI. 1 An exhortation to obedience, 2 by their own experience of God's great works, 8 by promise of God's great blessings, 16 and by threatenings. 18 A careful study is required in God's words. 26 The blessing and curse is set before them. THEREFORE thou shalt love Tthe LORD thy God, and bkeep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. 2 And know ye this day: for 1 speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, dhis greatness, "his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, 3fAnd his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; 4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day; 5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place; by promises and threatenings. 6 And hwhat he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that i was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel: 7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did. 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may k be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; 5. 16. Prov. 10. 27. m ch. 9. 5. n Ex. 3. 8. 9 And that ye may prolong your 1ch. 4. 40. & days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, "a land that floweth with milk and honey. 10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, "where thou sowedst thy seed, Zech. 14.18. and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 P But the land, whither ye go to peb. 8. 7. possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: + Heb. seeketh. 12 A land which the LORD thy God † careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto q1 Kiu. 9. 3, the end of the year. 13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken "diligently unto myr commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, "the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest+ eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 And then b the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest dye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. 18 T Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and fbind them for a sign 32. 46. upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your geh. 4. 9, 10. children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 h And thou shalt write them upon h ch 6. 9. the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: Blessing and curse proposed. DEUTERONOMY. 1451. ich. 4. 40. & 6. 2. Prov. 3. 2. & Before 21 That your days may be multiCHRIST plied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, kas the days of heaven upon the earth. 22 T For if ye shall diligently keep 4. 10. &9. 11. all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and in to cleave unto him; 23 Then will the LORD "drive out all these nations from before you, nch. 4. 38. & and ye shall possess greater nations and nightier than yourselves. k Ps. 72. 5. & 89.29. 1 ver. 13. ch. 6. 17. m ch. 10, 20. & 30. 20. 9. 5. a ch. 9 1. 14. 9. 24 Every place whereon the soles pJosh. 1.3.& of your feet shall tread shall be yours: 9 from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. Ex. 23. 31 Num. 31. 3. &o. r ch. 7. 24. sch, 2, 25. t Ex. 23. 27, u ch. 30. 1, 15, 19. x ch. 28, 2. y ch. 28. 15. sch. 27.12.13. Josh. 8. 33. a Gen. 12. 6. Judg. 7. 1. b ch. 9. 1. Josh, 1. 11 cch. 5. 82, & 12. 32. 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. 26 T Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD. your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. 29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, a beside the plains of Moreh? 31 b For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. 82 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day. CHAPTER XII. 1 Monuments of idolatry are to be destroyed. 5 The place of God's service is to be kept. 15, 23 Blood is forbidden. 17, 20, 26 Holy things must be eaten in the holy place. 19 The Levite is not to be forsaken. 29 Idolatry is not to be inquired after. THESE are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee 1 Kin. 8. 40. to possess it, ball the days that ye live upon the earth. 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, d upon the high mountains, and up For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you. 10 But when "ye go over Jordan, nch. 11. 31. and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; 11 Then there shall be a place over 5,14,15, which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, 2 & 31. 11, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD: 14 But in the place which the ver. 11. LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thec. 15 Notwithstanding, thou mayest ver. 21. kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: "the unclean and the cleanu ver. 22. may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart. ch. 11 5. & 15. 22. 17 T Thou mayest not eat within Lev. 7. 28. & thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand: ch. 15. 23. & ver, 23, 24. & ver. 11, 12. el. 14. 23. a oli. 14. 27. 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto. 19 Take heed to thyself that thou Heb. all thy forsake not the Levite fas long as days. thou livest upon the earth. Gen. 15. 18 & 28. 14 Ex. 34 24. ch. 11. 24. & 19. 8. ever. 15, d ver. 16. ↑ Heb. be strong. . Gen. 9. 4. Lev. 17. 11, 11 fch. 4. 40. 1 Kin. 11. 38. h Num. 5. 9, 10. & 18. 19. il Sam. 1. 21, 22, 21. k Lev. 1.5 9, 20 T When the LORD thy God shall to be inquired after. Before CHRIST 1451. them, and thou † succeedest them, ↑ Heb. after 30. 2 Kin. 17. 15. + Heb. abomination of the. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the 1 Enticers to idolatry, 6 how near soever enlarge thy border, bas he hath For dreamer of dreams, band 21 If the place which the LORD thy 22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is caten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 23 d Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. 24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. 25 Thou shalt not eat it; fthat it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. 26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and i thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose: 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt 13. & 17. 11. offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. 7 Namely, of the gods of the people 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; n ch. 17. 5. |