The song BRFORM CHRIST 1451. See2Kings 22.8. ver. 19. bch. 9. 24. &32. 20. ch. 9. 6. DEUTERONOMY, XXXII. 27 For I know thy rebellion, and Ex. 82. 9. thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death? 28 ¶ Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. 4 ch. 80. 19. &32.1. ach. 4. 28. & 30. 19. & 31. 28. Ps. 50. 4. Is 1.2. 30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended. CHAPTER XXXII. of Moses. BEFORD CHRIST 1451. Zech. 9. 2. 8 When the Most High "divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people accord-Acts 17. 26. ing to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him "in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; & 147.14. and thou didst drink the pure a blood of the grape. с 1 Moses' song, which setteth forth God's mercy 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, to mount Nebo, to see the land, and die. d Gen.49.11. ech.33. 5,26. Is. 44. 2. 1Sam.2.29. Neh. 9. 25. 8 ch. 31. 20. Ps. 17. 10. Jer. 2.7. & 5.7, 28. Hos. G will speak; and hear, O earth, God which made him, and lightly s. 31. 16. Jer. 2. 12. & the words of mouth. my 6. 19. bla. 55. 10, 11. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the Cor. & 6, rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon 7.8. Ps. 72.6. Mic. 5.7. d 1 Chron. 29.11. •2 Sam. 22. 3. & 23.3. 46. с the grass: 3 Because I will publish the name 18. 2,31, of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. Hab. 1. 12. (2 Sam. 22. 31. Dan. 4.37. Rev. 15. 3. Jer. 10.10. 0 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect for all his ways are judgJob 34. 10. ment: a God of truth and 'without iniquity, just and right is he. Po. 92. 15. 8 Heb. He hath corrupted to himself. ch. 31. 29. they are not Or, that his children, that is their blot. Matt 17.17. 5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a 'perverse and crooked generation. 6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not Lake & 41 he thy father that hath bought P.116.12. thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? Phil 2. 15. a Ls. 63. 16. • Pr. 24. 2. P ver. 15. Is. 27.11. & 44.2 4 Heb.generation and generation. 7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of 'many generations: ask thy father, and he will E 18 14 shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. PB. 44. 1. & 78.8, 4. The song BEFORE CHRIST 1451. y Jer. 15. 14. & 17.4. Lam. 4. 11. 2 Or, hath burned. 8 Or, hath consumed. z Is. 26. 15. A Ps. 7. 12, 13. DEUTERONOMY, XXXII. 22 For a fire is kindled in mine 38 Which did eat the fat of their 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hunEzek. 5. 16. ger, and devoured with 'burning heat, and with bitter destruction: will also send the teeth of beasts 4 IIcb. burning coals: Hab. 3. 5. b Lev.26.22. upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword without, and terror 5 within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, "Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they Luke 19.42. would consider their latter end! i Is. 47. 7. Lam. 1. 9. Josh. 10. 30 How should one chase a thouLev. 26.8. sand, and two put ten thousand to 2 Chr. 24.21. flight, except their Rock 'had sold 1 Ps. 44. 12. them, and the LORD had shut them up? Is. 30. 17. Is. 50. 1. & 52. 3. m 1Sam.2.2. m 31 For their rock is not as our 1 Sam.4.8. Rock, "even our enemies themselves being judges. Jer. 40. 3. o Is. 1. 10. 8 Or, is worse than the vine of Sodom, &c. p Ps. 58. 4. Rom. 3. 13. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is Pthe poison of Ps. 140. 3. dragons, and the cruel a venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? r Job 14. 17. Heb. 10. 30. u Ps. 135.14. *Judg.2.18. Jer. 31. 20. 35 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 For the LORD shall judge his Ps. 106. 45. people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their 'power is gone, and there is none 10. & 21. 21. shut up, or left. Joel 2. 14. y1 Kings 14. 2 Kings 9. 8. & 14. 26. * Judg. 10. Jer. 2. 28. 37 And he shall say, "Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 44 And Moses came and spake 45 And Moses made an end of 47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. 48 PAnd the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, 49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession: DEUTERONOMY, XXXIII. 52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel. CHAPTER XXXIII. 1 The majesty of God. 6 The blessings of the twelve tribes. 26 The excellency of Israel. AND this is "the blessing, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. с 2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them: he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. 2 3 Yea, he loved the people; fall his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words. 4 'Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. 5 And he was 'king in "Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered toProv.2.1. gether. 1 John 1.17. &7.19. Ps. 119. See Gen. 36.31. 6 ¶ Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few. 7¶ And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the Judg. 9.2 voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be suffiGen. 49. 8. cient for him; and be thou an help Ps. 146.5. to him from his enemies. &17.6. mch. 32.15. PEL. 29. 30. 8 And of Levi he said, "Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy EL 17.7. holy one, whom thou didst prove at ch. 8. 2,3 Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; Num.20.13. 16. Ps. 81.7. r Gen. 29.32. 1 Chr. 17.17. Job 37.24. 27,28. 1 See Jer. 18. 18. Mal 2.5, 6. 9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; 32. 28, neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. 10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine 8 Or, Let them teach, &c. " Lev.10.11. ch. 17.9,10, 11. & 24.8. Ezek. 44. 23,24. Mal. 2.7. 4 Or, let them put incense. altar. 3u 4x 11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and 30.78.accept the work of his hands: smite 160 through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again. 18am. 2. 28. 5 Heb. at thy nose. Ps. 51. 19. 23 Ps. 20. 3. Ezek. 20.40, 12 T And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell Sam. 24. in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and 41.43.27. he shall dwell between his shoulders. 13 T And of Joseph he said, "Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the Gen.49.25. moon, 15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, 16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing 'come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren. 17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them 'he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. 18 And of Zebulun he said, 'Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents. b Gen.27.28. 2Heb.thrust forth. 3 Heb. moons. Gen. 49.25. d Hab. 3. 6. 19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there "they shall Ps. 4. 5. offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand. 20 ¶ And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwell- See Josh. eth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head. 21 And Phe provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he 'seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel. a ch. 11. 24. Judg. 1.16. 2 Chr. 28.15. & 3. 13. & 13. 15. & с 2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, 3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. 4 And the LORD said unto him, f Gen. 12.7.This is the land which I sware unto 15. 18. & 26. Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with 3. & 28. 13. g ch. 3. 27. & 39. 52. His age and death. thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. h BEFORE CHRIST 1451. h ch. 32. 50. 5 ¶ So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, Josh.1.1, 2. according to the word of the LORD. 6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. k 7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: 1his eye was not dim, nor his 2 natural force abated. See Jude 9. ch. 81. 2. 1451. 1 See Gen.27. 1. & 48. 10. Josh. 14. 10, 11. moisture. 8 Heb. filed. m See Gen. 8 And the children of Israel 2 Heb. wept for Moses in the plains of Moab m thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses 50.3, 10. were ended. n Num.20.29. Dan. 6. 3. • Num. 27. 9 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the " spirit of wisdom; for Is. 11. 2. • Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened 18, 23. unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses. 15, 18. Num.12.6,8. 10 And there Parose not a pro-p See ch. 18. phet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, Ex. $3.11. 11 In all the signs and the won-ah. 5. 4. ders, which the LORD sent him to doch. 4. 34. in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, 12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel. & 7. 19. THE BOOK OF JOSHUA. I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. 4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast. 5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so "I will be with thee: hI will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 6 Be strong and of a good courage: for 'unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. 8 m This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but " thou Deut 2.17. shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. a Ps. 1. 2. 8 Or, do wisely, ver. 7. • Dent. 31. 7,8, 23. P Pa. 27.1. Jer. 1. 8. 9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; P be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. 10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, 11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you a Dent. 9.1. victuals; for a within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it. & 11. 31. ch. 3. 2. r Num. 32. 20-28. 12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying, 13 Remember the word which ch. 22.2,3,4. Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land. 14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before Heb. mar- your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them; shalled by five: as Ex. 13. 18. ch. 22. 4, &C. t ver. 5. 18am.20.13. 1 Kings1.37. 8 15 Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising. 16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go. 17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God 'be with thee, as he was with Moses. 18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage. Rahab concealeth the spies. CHAPTER II. 1 Rahab receiveth and concealeth the two spies sent from Shittim. 8 The covenant between her and them. 23 Their return and relation. BEFORE CHRIST 1451. AND Joshua the son of Nun 2 sent ad's had sent. out of Shittim two men to spy Num.25.1. secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there. с 2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country. 3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be como to search out all the country. 4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were: 5 And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went, I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them. 6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. 7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate. 8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof; 9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. 10 For we have heard how the LORD "dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. 12Now therefore, I pray you,"swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and P give me a true token: Heb.11.31. James 2.25. Matt. 1. 5. Heb. lay. d Ps. 127. 1. Prov. 21.30. • See 1 Tim. 5.8. p ver. 18. |